2025 Summer Camp:
Online Registration
Each camp must be added separately to your shopping cart. Click the link for the specific camp(s) below.
Please note, these are the grade levels your child will be entering in the 2025-2026 school year
Is your favorite camp sold out? Join the wait list!
Email us at education@DurhamMuseum.org.
Week of JUNE 2-6
| FULL DAY (Mon-Fri) |
LEGO® WeekCalling all LEGO® builders! This week is full of hands-on build time including individual-build challenges and large group week-long projects. Campers will learn about architecture to help them expand their LEGO®-build ideas. This week also includes time crafting and testing a vehicle for our museum-made “rain gutter racetrack!” | 1st-2nd Grade » | 3rd-5th Grade » |
| Before/After Care | “Beyond the Camp” Before Camp: 7:30-9AM, After Camp: 4-5:30PM • ALL AGES • During our “Beyond the Camp” experience children play games, draw, read or participate in other activities supervised by camp staff.ALL GRADES » | ||
Week of JUNE 9-13
| FULL DAY (Mon-Fri) |
Wizard AcademyPack your trunk! This popular annual camp will celebrate the wizard world through crafts, lessons, games and more. Join us for the sorting hat ceremony on Monday, the awards ceremony on Friday and enjoy the adventures in between! Please note, this camp is offered twice during the summer.
SPECIALTY THEME |
1st-5th Grade » | |
| Before/After Care | “Beyond the Camp” Before Camp: 7:30-9AM, After Camp: 4-5:30PM • ALL AGES • During our “Beyond the Camp” experience children play games, draw, read or participate in other activities supervised by camp staff.ALL GRADES » | ||
Week of JUNE 16-20
| FULL DAY (Mon-Fri) |
Animation AcademyThis creative week will include plenty of interactive time in The Durham Museum’s newest traveling exhibition, Animation Academy: From Pencils to Pixels. We will dive into the exploration of the art, science, technology and history of animation. Some fun creations will include a storyboard, caricature drawing, and one of history’s earliest forms of animation – a thaumatrope!. | 1st-2nd Grade » | 3rd-5th Grade » |
| Before/After Care | “Beyond the Camp” Before Camp: 7:30-9AM, After Camp: 4-5:30PM • ALL AGES • During our “Beyond the Camp” experience children play games, draw, read or participate in other activities supervised by camp staff.ALL GRADES » | ||
Week of JUNE 23-27
| FULL DAY (Mon-Fri) |
Omaha Staycation INeed a summer vacation? Look no further than your own hometown! Back by popular demand, these adventurous two-week lineups take campers on a “staycation” to the hottest attractions in Omaha. All transportation and admission is included in the cost of the camp, for a truly stress-free vacation right here in town. Destinations include the Omaha Zoo, El Museo Latino, Kiewit Luminarian, Schramm State Park and Lauritzen Gardens.
SPECIALTY THEME |
1st-2nd Grade » | 3rd-5th Grade (SOLD OUT!) |
| HALF DAY (Morning) |
Dinosaurs Around the WorldInspired by our spring traveling exhibition, Antarctic Dinosaurs, we can’t wait to dive into the world of dinosaurs! Did you know that no dinosaur bones have ever been discovered in Nebraska? But they have been found as far as Antarctica, and in every continent! This week will include lots of dinosaur S.T.E.A.M. activities as well as activities that focus on the different environments in which fossils have been discovered. | 1st-5th Grade » | |
| Before/After Care | “Beyond the Camp” Before Camp: 7:30-9AM, After Camp: 4-5:30PM • ALL AGES • During our “Beyond the Camp” experience children play games, draw, read or participate in other activities supervised by camp staff.ALL GRADES » | ||
Week of June 30-July 3
NO CAMP ON JULY 4
| FULL DAY (Mon-Thu) |
Durham Time TravelersEach day of this four-day week will take your camper to a different time period! Discover what life was like for Native American Nations in the 19th century on the Great Plains. Could you survive the hardships of traveling 2,000 miles by foot to your families plot of land in Nebraska? Discover the new inventions displayed at Omaha’s largest event ever held – the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition. How would you have traveled across the country in the mid 1900s – how about aboard a Pullman train car! Loads of learning and fun are packed into this short week. | 1st-2nd Grade » | 3rd-5th Grade » |
| Before/After Care | “Beyond the Camp” Before Camp: 7:30-9AM, After Camp: 4-5:30PM • ALL AGES • During our “Beyond the Camp” experience children play games, draw, read or participate in other activities supervised by camp staff.ALL GRADES » | ||
Week of JULY 7-11
| FULL DAY (Mon-Fri) |
Wizard AcademyPack your trunk! This popular annual camp will celebrate the wizard world through crafts, lessons, games and more. Join us for the sorting hat ceremony on Monday, the awards ceremony on Friday and enjoy the adventures in between! Please note, this camp is offered twice during the summer.
SPECIALTY THEME |
1st-5th Grade » | |
| Before/After Care | “Beyond the Camp” Before Camp: 7:30-9AM, After Camp: 4-5:30PM • ALL AGES • During our “Beyond the Camp” experience children play games, draw, read or participate in other activities supervised by camp staff.ALL GRADES » | ||
Week of JULY 14-18
| FULL DAY (Mon-Fri) |
Omaha Staycation IINeed a summer vacation? Look no further than your own hometown! Back by popular demand, these adventurous two-week lineups take campers on a “staycation” to the hottest attractions in Omaha. All transportation and admission is included in the cost of the camp, for a truly stress-free vacation right here in town. Destinations include the Omaha Zoo, Chalco Hills Recreation Area, Kiewit Luminariam, Joslyn Art Museum and Fontenelle Forest
SPECIALTY THEME |
1st-2nd Grade » | 3rd-5th Grade (SOLD OUT!) |
| HALF DAY (Morning) |
Durham DetectivesGrab your magnifying glass and dust off your investigative skills! Campers will work together to uncover mysteries and discover clues to solve the toughest cases. Explore what it takes to be an investigator and put your knowledge into practice with solving your own case. | 1st-5th Grade » | |
| Before/After Care | “Beyond the Camp” Before Camp: 7:30-9AM, After Camp: 4-5:30PM • ALL AGES • During our “Beyond the Camp” experience children play games, draw, read or participate in other activities supervised by camp staff.ALL GRADES » | ||
Week of JULY 21-25
| FULL DAY (Mon-Fri) |
LEGO® WeekCalling all LEGO® builders! This week is full of hands-on build time including individual-build challenges and large group week-long projects. Campers will learn about architecture to help them expand their LEGO®-build ideas. This week also includes time crafting and testing a vehicle for our museum-made “rain gutter racetrack!” | 1st-2nd Grade » | 3rd-5th Grade » |
| Before/After Care | “Beyond the Camp” Before Camp: 7:30-9AM, After Camp: 4-5:30PM • ALL AGES • During our “Beyond the Camp” experience children play games, draw, read or participate in other activities supervised by camp staff.ALL GRADES » | ||
Week of JULY 28-AUGUST 1
| FULL DAY (Mon-Fri) |
Mind Craft: A Minecraft CampEverything your camper loves about Minecraft without the screen! Where better to discover and interact with building and architecture than Omaha’s art-deco masterpiece and historic landmark – Union Station! With the assistance of some local architects, campers will plan and build their own city over the course of this activity-filled week. Campers will also incorporate what they learn from our Animation Academy: From Pencils to Pixels summer exhibition. | 1st-2nd Grade » | 3rd-5th Grade (SOLD OUT!) |
| Before/After Care | “Beyond the Camp” Before Camp: 7:30-9AM, After Camp: 4-5:30PM • ALL AGES • During our “Beyond the Camp” experience children play games, draw, read or participate in other activities supervised by camp staff.ALL GRADES » | ||
Week of AUGUST 4-8
| FULL DAY (Mon-Fri) |
Heroes in TrainingSuperheroes wanted! Grab your cape and join us for a heroic week as we learn about what it means to be a hero and how you can be one too! From artistically crafting a superhero mask, to the science behind flying and levitation, this week is sure to spark imaginative play! | 1st-2nd Grade » | 3rd-5th Grade » |
| Before/After Care | “Beyond the Camp” Before Camp: 7:30-9AM, After Camp: 4-5:30PM • ALL AGES • During our “Beyond the Camp” experience children play games, draw, read or participate in other activities supervised by camp staff.ALL GRADES » | ||
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PHONE: 402-444-5027 • E-MAIL: Education@DurhamMuseum.org
