Field Trips
The BMI has implemented safety protocols based on CDC recommendations, all while providing a safe, fun, educational experience. These protocols include but are not limited to capping the number and size of groups visiting the museum, mask and social distancing requirements while inside the museum, and hand sanitizing stations accessible throughout the galleries and education spaces.
The BMI welcomed students back to the museum starting June 2021 with a curated selection of programs for K—8th grade students.
Arrangements for student groups (minimum of 10) must be made in advance. Teachers/staff are free and the parent chaperone entry fee is $9.00. Remember to schedule a break for a bagged lunch!
Choose from an exciting selection of educational activities that are grade-specific and rich in content with specific and meaningful learning outcomes.
Select one or more of the following experiences for your group
History Alive Tour
Experience Baltimore’s industrial past with a tour led by a museum educator. Stops may include visits to a belt-driven machine shop, a blacksmith’s shop, an oyster cannery, a print shop, and a garment loft. Students learn about jobs that were important to Baltimore’s history as an industrial city. Tours engage participants in discussions and demonstrations of the museum’s working machines.
Cost: $4 per student
Grade: 2nd—12th
Length: 1 hour
Kids’ Cannery
As workers in Mr. Platt’s 1883 oyster cannery, students become managers, foremen, can-makers, printers, labelers, steamers, shuckers, and can-fillers. They learn about the training and wages of skilled and unskilled workers and which people were allowed to have skilled jobs. Students are paid for their work in tokens that they redeem in the company store, where they quickly grasp the value of a day’s work. All students take home a can of “oysters” that they helped to create.
Cost: $8 per student
Grade: 2nd–8th
Length: 1.5 hours
Kids’ MotorWorks
Learn how assembly lines revolutionized American factories. Each student takes a job on the line and builds models of our 1914 moving van.
Cost: $6.50 per student
Outreach option: $8.50 per student
Grade: 2nd–8th
Length: 1 hour
Design It! Balls and Tracks
Young engineers learn the basics of experimentation, observation, and design by completing roller coaster challenges using everyday materials.
Cost: $6 per student
Outreach option: $8 per student
Grade: 2nd–8th
Length: 1 hour
In the Neighborhood
The BMI is transformed into an early 20th century Baltimore neighborhood in this program for young visitors. Children become workers of the past as they take an interactive tour through our galleries. They are given different duties and paid with tokens. The program ends with children depositing their earnings and receiving a deposit book to take home.
Cost: $5 per student
Grade: K–2nd
Length: 1 hour
Lights On
In this STEM program, students explore the use of light as a communication method. Students make real-world connections with artifacts throughout the museum to see how light and sound have been used historically to communicate. Students test this knowledge by building their own light communication device.
Cost: $5 per student
Outreach option: $7 per student
Grade: K–2nd
Length: 1.5 hours
City Builders
What did Baltimore look like in 1896? Students help build old Baltimore out of paper models and learn about its houses, workplaces, trains, and more.
Cost: $5 per student
Outreach option: $7 per student
Grade: K–2nd
Length: 1 hour
Little Gears
Hands-on classroom activities that include a short gallery visit. Choose a focus on Hat Making, Printing, and Canning, or book more than one session!
Cost: $5 per student
Outreach option: $6 per student
Grade: PreK-K
Length: 1 hour
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