Please contact our Public Engagement Coordinator to schedule tours, school visits, or other programs. Schools, families, and other groups are welcome. Call 307-872-6435 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

School Outreach

The museum offers free educational opportunities for students across our county. This includes museum tours, presentations in your classrooms, and Education Kits - bring the museum to your classroom!

To book a tour, presentation, or kit, fill out the form here. 

Pre-school Outreach

The museum has a fun program on animals designed just for preschool classrooms! Participants explore several animals including a buffalo pelt, while exploring ideas like "Big/Little", "Inside/Outside", and "Hard/Soft". If you are interested in bringing this program to your preschool contact us at 307-872-6435.

3rd Grade History Fair

The museum has reimagined their traditional 3rd grade history tours and created an interactive History Fair that incorporates hands-on activities to bring history alive. It usually occurs the second week of May. 

All other grades may request a traditional gallery tour by contacting us and scheduling a tour time.

Homeschool Outreach

We offer in person programs to multiple age groups for homsechooled families throughout Sweetwater County. If you are looking for a particular topic for your students please let us know, and we will see if we can produce a resource for you. These programs are typically given in the museum's onsite classroom space. These programs can also be adapted for scout groups and more. More information on each program can be found on our YouTube channel, there are trailers for some of our more popular programs.

Please note there is a homeschool slot for the 3rd Grade History Fair so please let us know if your students would like to participate.

Some common topics for presentations include:

• Cold War at Home (typically for older students)
  • See YouTube trailer here
• Sweetwater County Animals (typically for younger students)
• How the Rock Cycle helped decide how Native American communities lived 
• Chinese New Year
• Sweetwater County History overview
• Lake Gosiute and Trona
• Dinosaurs and other Ancient Creatures
  • In person presentation includes a dinosaur bone
  • See general lesson plan here
• Westward Expansion
  • An education kit, and youtube video(here) are also available on this subject
• Sheepherding and wool
  • In person presentation involves a live carding and spinning demonstration
• John Wesley Powell
• The Fur Trade
  • In person presentation includes pelts and a role play section where students choose which items THEY might trade
• The evolution of hunting technology: Arrowheads to muskets and beyond
  • In person includes arrowhead casts and can include a "musket" loading activity (no gunpowder or real firearms are involved!) 

Adult Programs

Museum staff offer special programs on a variety of subjects to adult groups, such as retirement homes and service organizations. If you are interested in topics or booking a program, please contact the museum.

Volunteering

If you are interested in volunteering to help give any of the programs listed above please contact the museum at 307-872-6435, or stop by.