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2025 SUMMER FIELD TRIPS

The Durham Museum offers a variety of summer field trip experiences for daycares, summer school programs, summer camps and more! Field trips are available for groups of 10 or more and recommended for grade levels Preschool through 6th Grade. All field trips are customized to the size of your group and can be booked Monday-Friday from June 2 through August 8, 2025.

Animation Academy

Take a journey through the history of animation from pre-film devices to computer generated animated films we know today. Discover what films, tools and characters became popular through animation. Create one of the earliest forms of animation, a thaumatrope!

Wheels and Rails

Transportation is ever evolving. Take a look at The Durham Museum’s history of travel including trains, trolleys, cars and trucks. As you explore, think about the design and function of each vehicle. Build your own mode of transportation out of LEGO® bricks, and send it down our rain gutter racetrack to test its speed!

Storytelling

Start by learning about the history and importance of oral storytelling in Native American nations. Then travel to the late 19th century, to our one room schoolhouse to learn about moral storytelling. Finally, engage with a popular modern day way of storytelling, zines. Create your own zine keeping in mind what you have learned in the workshop.

Games Galore

Travel back in time to visit the Worker’s Cottage, Tudor Home and Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition exhibits and explore how people entertained themselves through games and toys of the past. Finish this workshop in the log cabin to play pioneer games, “button, button” and “stick dice.”