A woman dressed in historical clothing leading a group of children inside a rustic classroom or workshop with shelves of textiles, tools, and artifacts.

Experience history hands-on at Strawbery Banke.

Strawbery Banke Museum offers a wide range of educational programming for various grade-levels and interests. Classes can visit for a self-guided tour or add workshops and guided tours to create an even more enriching experience. All programs are designed to connect to national and state curriculum standards.

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History Within Reach Scholarship Program

The History Within Reach program provides experiential learning workshops to economically underserved New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts schools. For many History Within Reach students, this is their first school trip and first visit to a Museum. The History Within Reach program provides scholarship funds to help cover costs based on the school’s financial status.

In addition to students experiencing self-guided tours of Strawbery Banke’s historic houses, schools may participate in workshops: hands-on sessions that delve deeper into topics like archaeology, architecture, hearth cooking, Colonial trades, and economics. Some highlights in workshops are making cookies over an open hearth to learn about 18th-century daily life, participating in a "dishpan dig" to
learn the archaeological process, working together to build the model of an 18th-century house, engaging in a game simulating Colonial trade routes to learn how the maritime economy worked, and taking on the role of researchers using primary sources to investigate some of the immigrant families who lived in Puddle Dock.

All History Within Reach programs are carefully designed to meet national curriculum standards, and state curriculum standards for New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. These standards include C3 Frameworks, Next Generation Science Standards, and Common Core requirements.