Museum in Motion
Educational Outreach Programs
Bring the Manitowoc County Historical Society experience to your classroom. Our local history team can come to you!
Students can have an all-access pass to the past with a visit from our museum staff. We offer the following curriculum-connected programs which involve a mixture of multimedia presentation, artifacts, and hands-on activities, built around a central theme.
Program Length: 45-60 minutes
Class Size: 1 classroom with a maximum of 30 children (an adult is required to remain in the classroom)
Cost: $150 per program (if you are looking for program for multiple classrooms - ask about our ‘multiple program rate). Many programs are available as an in-person or virtual outreach program.
Programs are subject to availability and group size.
Additional travel fees apply to sites outside of Manitowoc County ($.50 per mile).
Virtual outreach program supplies must be picked up in advance at the museum.
For more information about our education outreach programs, please call the museum at
(920) 684-4445 or email programs@ManitowocCountyHistory.org.
Looking for a program for adults? Check out our Speakers and Outreach.
one-room school
Students step back in time and experience an 1870s classroom. Whether it’s presenting classroom rules, giving math instruction or doing reading and writing with our McGuffey Readers books, our costumed teacher will give your students the opportunity to learn much as our ancestors did at the turn of the century.
Cabinet of Curiosities
Time travel through the past with this mystery box of odds and ends! Can you guess the uses of the objects? Do you have what it takes to be a historian?
Civil War
What was a soldier’s life? Muster in a student while learning what items soldiers were issued, what they added to their kits and why. One lucky student will be the model soldier.
Coming SOON!
The Homefront
How to pack a box for a Civil War Soldier. While the men are away, families at home do their best to support them. Have the class pack a box for our brave boys. What should go in the box and who will do it?
Fur Trade
The first Europeans in Manitowoc area were fur traders. Practice bartering skills in a fur trade game and explore trade goods.