During the Highlights Tour, your Docent guide will lead you on an overview tour of the Evansville Museum. During this fast-paced, 45-minute tour you will be able to explore the Museum’s permanent galleries.
Discover the history of transportation in Evansville! Students learn about early river and rail travel and the development of street transportation and aviation in Evansville. Highlights include a model railroad vignette and the Evansville Museum train, a real beauty composed of a 1908 steam engine, 1926 club car and circa 1900 caboose. This 45-minute tour includes the entire Museum Transportation Center and train. Note: The train is not handicap-accessible. If this is a concern, please contact the Museum Curator to discuss options for your group.
Join Gabby the puppet on a fun Museum introduction tour that gives young students their first look at fine arts, history displays and exhibits featuring science.
Science is for everyone! This fast-paced and interactive program gets young students asking questions and thinking like a scientist. During this program, Museum Docent Scientists will introduce science concepts during engaging experiments. This program highlights experiments that can be done with materials found in the average household kitchen and is perfect for encouraging science exploration at home.
2nd & 3rd grade students will travel back in time to discover pioneer life and learn how the European founders and settlers of our communities lived. This interactive tour will have students exploring Museum artifacts and exhibits, learning about pioneer life and meeting one of the region’s most famous pioneers, Abraham Lincoln.
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Want to touch a real fossil? Then this is the program for you! Students will get to touch & see real fossils such as fossil ferns, fossil teeth, ammonites, eggshells, and even fossil poop. This program is ideal for students who have been studying fossils but have not gotten to see real examples.
Guests will experience the Evansville Museum's art collections through a variety of hands-on and interactive activities. They will be encouraged to look, listen, compare, examine, evaluate and imagine! This fun, non-traditional tour can be customized to suit specific interests or grade-level academic standards.
In this hands-on workshop, students will use the scientific method to discover the culprit behind the mystery of the missing cheese doodles! Students will analyze ink samples, handwriting, and study fingerprints in this engaging and silly program.
This program, designed for grades 4 and up, gives students a first-hand look at one of the greatest wonders of the world: mummification. Many cultures practiced mummification besides the Egyptians, including the Aztecs, Incas, Chinese, and Japanese. Students will explore the myths and truths about ancient Egyptian culture and witness the mummification of EMASHOTEP, an ancient Egyptian Royal.
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In this 45–55-minute session, students will view and discuss selected works exhibited in the Museum galleries, give close attention to a work of their own choice, prepare an evaluation/critique of the work, and present their critique to their peers.
Explore Evansville’s influence on WWII while discovering how the war changed the city. This 45-minute, interactive tour spotlights Evansville’s wartime production through artifacts, images, and stories, as well as how wartime shortages and sacrifices changed daily life. In addition, participants will discover the impact that Evansville women and African Americans had on the city’s manufacturing power.
Audio for many languages other than English available for most shows! Contact education@emuseum.org to learn more.
Explore the stars and the Moon with the characters from Sesame Street.
Join a family of aliens traveling through our solar system looking for the best place to go on vacation.
Travel back in time to the time of the dinosaurs to learn about the evolution of flight.
Our live, customizable planetarium show that discusses the constellations in the night sky.
Learn about the science behind the upcoming total solar eclipse.
Our live, customizable planetarium show that takes viewers on a tour of the solar system.
Learn about the stories in the stars of the Mayan people and how these astronomical observations influenced the building of temples.
Learn about how and who makes the big discoveries in astronomy happen!
Travel to the North Pole on a science research vessel to learn how scientists are studying climate change.
EVSC students receive a discount of $1 per student on the package price. There is no charge for teachers or chaperones to attend the Museum as part of package, except where noted.
High School classes and College classes may prefer to explore the Museum on their own during normal museum hours. These groups receive Museum admission at $2 per student. They may also choose to purchase theater tickets at $4 per student.
Scouts, Scout parents and Scout siblings may explore the Museum on their own by purchasing Museum admission. They receive a discount of $2 per person.
Reservations for all field trips can be submitted by filling out our registration form or contacting education@emuseum.org.
Bring the Museum into your classroom! Outreach programs include 45-minute interactive presentations brought to your school by Museum Docents. These programs can be a great complement to a Museum visit, or perfect for those who are unable to visit the Museum. Cost for Outreach programs is $2 per person for all schools. Outreach programs are also available to local organizations at a cost of $2 per person.
Learn about what life was like for the European pioneers when they moved to what is now the Tri-State region. During this outreach program, students will get to see and touch pioneer artifact replicas and learn how the pioneers used them during their daily life.
Aligned to Indiana State: the Nature of Science Process Standards
In this hands-on workshop, students use a scientific method to discover the culprit behind the mystery of the missing cheese doodles! Participants analyze ink samples and handwriting, study fingerprints and more in this engaging and silly program.
Designed for grades 4 and up, this program gives students a first-hand look at one of the greatest wonders of the world: mummification. Many cultures besides the Egyptians once practiced mummification, including the Aztecs, Incas, Chinese and Japanese. Students will explore the myths and truths about ancient Egyptian culture and witness the mummification of EMASHOTEP, an ancient Egyptian Royal.
Visit the Museum from the comfort of your home, classroom or smartphone! The TIME Project features videos during which Museum docents, curators and visiting artists discuss works of art or historical artifacts.
The videos can be enjoyed online or in the Museum galleries by scanning QR codes with a smart device. Smart devices are available to borrow at the Museum’s welcome desk (with a valid ID).
The TIME project was made possible thanks to a $30,000 grant awarded by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana and a partnership between the Evansville Museum, Ivy Tech Community College, the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation and the Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center.
The Evansville Museum would appreciate feedback on your use of the TIME Project. Please consider taking one of our surveys.
The Outdoor Classroom is made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Alcoa Foundation. Designed as both a teaching space and as entrance to the Evansville Museum’s Eykamp Pavilion, the Alcoa Foundation Outdoor Classroom highlights the variety and beauty of nine species of plants that are native to Indiana.
As part of the grant provided by the Alcoa Foundation, the Outdoor Classroom is now accessible in your classroom, scout meeting or home school group! Four outreach kits, developed around the core subjects of art, history and science, are available to be borrowed for free by educators.
To borrow one or all of the Alcoa Foundation Outdoor Classroom Education Kits, please contact education@emuseum.org.
The Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science is committed to providing programming that is accessible to the widest possible audience. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our programs, facilities and website, and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines. A limited number of wheelchairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Museum Reception Desk, and motorized wheelchairs are permitted. Our goal is to be as inclusive as possible. If you need an accommodation, please contact us or call 812-425-2406.
Currently, the train exhibit in EMTRAC is not wheelchair accessible. If this is a concern any member(s) of your group, please contact the Museum before your visit. We are happy to work with you on alerting the program to fit your group’s accessibility needs.
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