Field Trips 

4Learn how tours can help meet curriculum standards

• The Arms Family Museum of Local History can accommodate up to 60 students at one time. The admission fee is $1.00 per student; teachers/chaperones are free. 

• Teachers are requested to divide their students into smaller groups as stated in the confirmation letter.  No more than 15 students will be in each smaller in-museum group. At least one chaperone, 21 or older, for each museum group of students, is required.

• Please keep any students likely to have difficulties with the teacher.

• Allow 1 hour for tour. Each tour has three, twenty-minute components: First Floor Interpretation, Second Floor Exhibits Observation, and Lower Level Hands-On Educational Activity. (Teacher is welcome to coordinate educational activity or focused tour with the Curator of Education)

• Teachers and chaperones are expected to help museum guides keep groups focused during the tour. Children are expected to have “museum manners” and be respectful to the museum guides.

• Teachers are encouraged to prepare their class for the tour with pre-visit activities from the curriculum guides on the MVHS web site.

• Goodie bags are available for purchase. Please place order before arrival. The museum offers two options:

1. “Activities in Mahoning Valley History” activity book and MVHS pencil: $2.50

2. “Activities in Mahoning Valley History” activity book, MVHS pencil and a Jacob’s Ladder pioneer toy: $3.50

The Mahoning Valley Historical Society educates and promotes an interest in the history of the Mahoning Valley by collecting, preserving, and developing material representative of the people who have inhabited the region.

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