Programs for Schools & Teachers

Students view sketches by artist Virginia Snedeker during a field trip to the Morris Museum.

Exhibition Programs
Field trips to the Morris Museum offer an in-depth study of a particular thematic exhibit. Exhibition programs are designed to meet curriculum standards in the humanities, fine arts, and sciences. A professional museum educator will lead your students through our galleries and engage them in a lively discussion.
Programs are designed to allow students to experience learning in an interactive way using museum artifacts, reproductions, and hands on activities.

Professional Development Workshops for Teachers
Professional Development Workshops provide new insights
into specific subjects and are designed to offer new educational resources and tools for K-12 educators. The workshops focus on the arts, sciences, history, and character education. The Morris Museum is a registered professional development provider and a certificate of completion is provided to all participants.

Outreach Programs
Let us bring the Morris Museum to you! The Morris Museum offers Outreach Programs related to the arts, sciences and history – all to support your classroom curriculum. Boxes of handling objects, working models, interpretive materials, worksheets and educational games are all part of the Outreach experience. Conducted by the museum’s outreach educator, programs are presented in a discussion format, with a lively interaction between the educator and your students. Planetarium presentations are presented in the museum’s Portable Planetarium.

Museum Loan Program
The Morris Museum Loan Program, formerly School Loan, offers 1,300 portable boxed exhibits containing handling objects and interpretive materials that relate to subjects in the arts, sciences, history and humanities. Exhibit boxes contain artifacts, dioramas, models, charts, reproductions of artwork, science experiments and mounted specimens of mammals, birds and insects to enhance learning experiences. The slide collection includes slides in carousels, with an accompanying narrative.

Classroom Intermission Theatre Series
The Morris Museum presents theatre for young audiences on the stage of our 312-seat Bickford Theatre. The Classroom Intermission Theatre Series introduces young audiences to the performing arts, sciences and humanities. Study guides are available for teachers for most performances. All performances run 45 minutes to 1 hour in length.