Northern Virginia
Field Trips

Del Ray Artisans is a community art center that strives to promote art. The art center has exhibited art of a variety of mediums, with a new exhibit on display almost every month.

Encore Stage & Studio mission is to build life-long appreciation for live theater by involving young people in all aspects of theater arts — onstage, backstage, in the classroom, and in the audience.

At the Fort Ward Museum & Historic site, groups can visit one of the Union forts that were built to protect Washington, DC during the Civil War. Living history activities allow groups to understand what daily life was like for a Union soldier in the Civil War.

Visit the Freedom House Museum, a former headquarters of a 19th-century domestic slave-trading firm, which transported 1,800 slaves to Mississippi and Louisiana each year.

Frying Pan Farm Park preserves and interprets farm life of the 1920s to 1950s. Visitors learn about traditional farm family roles and how they compare to modern family roles.

Step inside 18th century Virginia at Gadsby Tavern Museum. The Tavern was a place for politics, social life, and business in early Alexandria, Virginia.

Marvel at the neoclassical George Washington Masonic National Memorial dedicated to George Washington—a Mason and the Father of our country.

Mount Vernon was the plantation of George Washington, the first President of the United States, and his wife, Martha Washington. The estate is situated on the banks of the Potomac River

At Great Country Farms, pick-your-own vegetables and fruits in the spring and summer and the fall apples and pumpkins. Visitors see how produce grows and the importance of pollinators like honeybees and butterflies.

Green Spring Gardens has naturalistic native plant garden, more than 20 thematic demonstration gardens, a greenhouse, a a historic house, and a horticultural reference library.

Observe nature at Gulf Branch Nature Center. Visitors enjoy a fun learning experience while viewing the nature center’s exhibits, Discovery Room, pollinator garden, animal exhibit room, and more.

The Gum Springs Museum displays the dynamic history of the Gum Springs Community. Featured exhibits include photographs of residents. Many photos are near 100 years old.