PENNSYLVANIA
Field Trips

The Children’s Museum in Bloomsburg offers over 50 engaging exhibits and activities. The museum’s features two exhibit floors, which incorporate a variety educational science, art, and history activities.

The Hospital Gardens at UPenn contain plants and herbs that were used for medicines during the 18th century, and the original plants are on display for curious visitors.

At the Nature Place visitors can explore wetland trails and use the teaching and demonstration gardens or indoor classrooms. Young students can also explore, learn, and play in the Nature Play Zone.

The State Museum of Pennsylvania, located in Harrisburg adjacent to the State Capitol, is a great place for exploring history, art, and science. Explore Pennsylvania’s story through exhibits, hands-on programming, and tours for all ages.

The Tom Ridge Environmental Center is a modern, 75 foot structure filled with exhibits dedicated to teaching groups about the unique 32,000 acres of Presque Isle and the many different forms of life that inhabit the peninsula.

Experience the Underground Railroad through a mansion that lived it at the Underground Railroad Museum at Belmont Mansion and learn about slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, known colloquially as Penn Museum, aims to illustrate the human story: who we are and where we came from.

The nation’s first mint in Philadelphia makes circulating coins, commemorative coins as authorized by Congress, and produces the dies for stamping coins and medals. Learn about a tour the US mint facility.

Vale Wood Farms is a dairy farm that offers fall and spring tours. Depending on their grade level and interests, groups may learn about the farm’s cows, dairy products and processing, crops, conservation, and history.

The Wagner Free Institute of Science’s nineteenth century exhibit hall—a soaring three-story space—houses a remarkable collection of natural history. Educational programs are available for students, homeschoolers, scouts, and camp groups.

On the Wooden Nickel Buffalo Farm’s tour view wild American Bison (aka Buffalo) in their natural habitat just as the settlers encountered them over 120 years ago.

The Woodmere Art Museum is housed in a 19th-century stone mansion on six acres, is dedicated to the art and artists of Philadelphia. Woodmere’s collection consists of more than 6,000 works of art, and nine galleries.