Education

To help make history inviting and meaningful in everyday life, the Museum offers a dynamic and diverse schedule of programs targeted toward teachers and students, local residents and Museum members, and a national and international visitor constituency.

Our standards-based school programs in the areas of history, language arts, culture and science directly address Massachusetts Department of Education Frameworks and are designed to offer hands-on, minds-on learning opportunities.

Participate in one program and spend a morning at the Museum, or bring lunch and spend the entire day when you choose to attend one science program and one history, language arts and culture program.
We encourage you to review the programs in our brochure. Discuss with your colleagues the program(s) that best fit your needs.

Maximize your trip funds by coordinating with a fellow educator and bringing more than one class or grade. We look forward to meeting you and your students during the 2010-2011 school year.

New Online Kids' Activity!

"A Whaling Adventure!" uses animation and a combination of historic images, quotes, paintings, illustrations, and audio clips to introduce young visitors to the whaling story.

Explore a 19th century whaling port and set sail on a whaling voyage around the world!

Click here to begin!