The Nature Museum offers a variety of workshops for active scout groups which utilize the Museum’s collections and outdoor exhibitions.
These workshops teach scouts the skills of observation, discussion, identification and more.
Workshops
The Nature Museum offers creative, hands-on science and nature workshops to enhance your Boy and Girl Scout badge programming. Scout groups of 10 or more can register for these 45 minute workshops. The cost for a workshop is $175/workshop. Click the button below for more information on workshops that might fit your group best.
Scout and Chaperone Pricing
(Monday-Friday, all year)
Boy Scout and Girl Scout groups visiting the Museum and taking a workshop receive free field trip admission for all scouts.
Adults, including chaperones and scout leaders, also receive free admission. Please consider keeping adult attendance close to a 1:5 adult:scout ratio.
Groups of 10 or more scouts not wishing to take a workshop will be charged our discounted group rate of $8/scout and $12/adult.
Enhance Your Visit
Exclusive Butterfly Release
Make your field trip visit unforgettable by releasing a butterfly with an exclusive butterfly release. For $15 per group, your scouts will be able to watch as a butterfly that has just emerged from its chrysalis is released into the Judy Istock Butterfly Haven for its first flight!
Request a Scout Field Trip
Reserve your space today! Click the button below to begin filling out the Scout Workshop Request Form. Please only submit one request per field trip. If you are planning multiple field trips–either on more than one day or a morning and afternoon visit–you must fill out a separate request for each. Before requesting a visit, please click here to review the Payment & Cancellation Policies.
After you’ve submitted a request form, we will process your request within two weeks. Once we’ve booked your visit, we will send you a confirmation packet via email. Your field trip is not confirmed until you’ve received this email. After two weeks, if you have not received an email please email fieldtrip@naturemuseum.org to check on the status of your request.
Anything Else?
If you need further assistance, please email fieldtrip@naturemuseum.org.