Scouting Program

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The Hoboken Historical Museum has several programs designed for Cub Scouts, Daisies, and Brownies. Local history comes alive in the museum’s exhibitions as well as on the streets of our historic neighborhood. Whether you are looking for an engaging activity for your troop, or looking for a program that will satisfy merit badge requirements, the Museum has several educational and fun programs designed to create positive experiences in the discovery of local history and architecture.

Each program runs 60 minutes and the cost is $5.00 per child with a maximum charge of $65.00 (no charge for chaperones).

Cub Scout Programs

Go-See-It and Field Trips

Current exhibit guided tour and related projects
 

Our Neighborhood Architecture

Patterns and design elements can be found in buildings throughout the city. Scouts will explore local neighborhood architecture, make sketches of their favorite buildings, and then go inside the museum to create a community mural based on the design elements of shapes, lines, and patterns.

Wolf Electives Project

American Indian Lore

Scouts will work towards their American Indian Lore elective project by hearing a native story about the the Lenape people who inhabited this region of New Jersey. Scouts will make a model of a wigwam, the traditional Lenape round-house, and learn some American Indian word pictures.

Girl Scout Programs

Daisies

Current exhibit guided tour and related projects
 

Brownies and Juniors

Current exhibit guided tour and related projects
 

Brownie Try-it: Listening to the Past

The Museum’s Oral History Chapbook Project captures the history of Hoboken and its long-time residents through oral recollections. We Did Have Wonderful Times recounts the stories of growing up as a Girl Scout on Garden Street. A museum educator will read aloud from the chapbook to the Scouts, who can then take the stories back home to share with family and friends. Scouts will also have fun playing some oldie-but-goodie games from the past.

Girl Scout Juniors: Architecture badge

Scouts will take a guided tour of the local neighborhood and look at different types of buildings and styles of architecture and make sketches of their favorites. Back at the museum, Scouts will brainstorm a list of buildings they would design if they were architects. Finally, Scouts will create 2-dimensional structures out of craft sticks, toothpicks and glue.

This program satisfies requirements 1, 9 & 10 for the Architecture badge.

TO SCHEDULE ALL PROGRAMS, call the Museum at 201-656-2240 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.