FIELD TRIPS
Field Trips cater to K-12 students and community groups and include a museum tour with a hands-on art-making activity or an outdoor Wetlands Enrichment Tour (WET.)
Field Trip groups have the option to schedule a combined Museum Tour and Art-Making Activity or just a 30-minute Museum Tour. WET Tours cannot be combined with other Field Trip offerings during the same visit. Field Trip groups are welcome to bring picnic lunches and enjoy the Hermitage gardens to eat outdoors after their tour experience.
Interested in booking a field trip? Choose an option below, download and complete a Field Trip Request Form here, and email it to Brie Sease at bsease@thehermitagemuseum.org
FIELD TRIP MUSEUM TOUR
Field Trip groups may tour the first floor of the museum with a knowledgeable docent, learning about the museum history and the permanent collection which includes objects from all over the world. Opportunities for hands-on engagement with objects similar to those in the collection allow students to expand their understanding of artifacts in the collection.
Duration: 30 minutes
Field Trip Museum Tour groups are limited to 25 students.
$5 per student
FIELD TRIP ART-MAKING ACTIVITY
Hands-on art-making activities are led by artists or arts educators. Activities incorporate themes and processes inspired by the museum’s permanent collection. Activities encourage students to explore a variety of art materials and draw connections between the museum’s collection and studio art-making methods.
Duration: Approximately 90 minutes
Field Trip Art-Making Activity groups are limited to 25 students.
$5 per student
FIELD TRIP WETLANDS ENRICHMENT TOUR
The Wetlands Enrichment Tour, or WET, is a hands-on outdoor education program aimed at bringing the Hermitage’s living shoreline restoration to life for students. The activity-based program, geared toward students in 4th grade, teaches the importance of wetlands as a Virginia natural resource, the structure, reproduction, and adaptation of plants, plant and animal interaction in natural habitats, and key vocabulary associated with the following 4th grade SOLs. This program consists of four, hands-on interactive activities that allow students to:
- Tour the Hermitages boardwalk while observing and touching live creatures found in the wetlands
- Build a wetlands model and record experiment findings
- See, touch, and smell the native plants living and growing in the Hermitage wetlands and buffer areas while doing observational drawings
- Play an interactive game to discover the various habitats of creatures that live on land and in water
This tour is offered April-October, weather-permitting and does not include the indoor Museum Tour.
Duration: Approximately 90 minutes
WET Tour groups are limited to 30 students.
$5 per student
