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Book a Field Trip for your students today.

Help your students get up close to natural and cultural history. Want to join us in the building? Check out our in-person programs, they make great field trips. If you come to us, it’s easy to add on a film in our Theatre, or show in the Planetarium. If you’re school is located in Hastings, we’ll bring the Museum to your classroom! Still can’t make the trip? Try a Virtual Field Trips. These can be delivered from the Museum to your school or directly to your students’ homes for at-home learning days.  Reservations are required for all school programs. Call us today at (402) 461-2399 or start Field Trip Reservation online with one of the red buttons below. We ask that you bring your tax exempt number on your field trip to the Museum. We have a short document to help prepare for your school’s visit. Check it out here!

Field Trip Request Form
Request we Visit your School

SCHOOL GROUP FEES

Schools outside Hastings city limits

$3.00

per Student for Museum admission; includes school programs and planetarium

FREE

for Teachers, Paras & Bus Drivers for Museum admission; includes school programs and planetarium

$3.00

per Chaperone for Museum admission; includes school programs and planetarium

$25.00

per Virtual Field Trip program, for the whole classroom

Excludes special programs.

Schools within Hastings city limits

FREE

for Students for Museum admission; includes school programs and planetarium

FREE

for Teachers, Paras & Bus Drivers for Museum admission; includes school programs and planetarium

$3.00

per Chaperone for Museum admission; includes school programs and planetarium (membership does not apply for field trips)

FREE

per Virtual Field Trip program, for the whole classroom

Excludes special programs.

Large-Format Films

$5.00

per person

PARKING & UNLOADING

The Museum provides free bus parking in the east parking lot. Buses may unload in the circle drive around the flagpole at the south end of the building before parking in the east bus area.

FOOD &
DRINKS

There are many food vendors within a few blocks of the Museum. If you’d like to bring your own food, note that there is a picnic area and shelter in a park directly east of the Museum.