Class Visits
Teachers: Visit the museum with your students or scout troop members to interact with our current exhibit or to engage in one of our informative educational programs, tailored to specific grade levels. All programs are interactive and hands-on. Most programs cost $75 and run for an hour. Choose from a selection of tried-and-true Hoboken topics, or programs based on the current exhibit. Browse the programs listed on this page or contact our Education Curator for more information. Home-schooled children also welcome.
To schedule a visit, please email the Education Curator at education@hobokenmuseum.org, or call 201-656-2240. Education program hours are Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. (Please note that most programs begin at 10 a.m., except on Thursdays)
Exhibit-Related Programs
Ongoing Education Programs
All programs are $75 and run 1 hour, unless otherwise noted
Our Neighborhood: Shapes and PatternsRead moreGrades K-2, 60 minutes
Shapes and patterns can be found in buildings throughout the city and right outside our doors. Students will explore neighborhood architecture with their eyes, and then go inside to create a community mural based on the design elements of shapes, lines, and patterns. In this program,…
Map It!Read moreGrades 1 - 3, 60 minutes
Working cooperatively, students will be asked to observe their surroundings and then read or create maps and symbols, starting with the museum interior and expanding to their own neighborhood and the city. By following a map of the area around the Museum, students will…
Community and DiversityRead moreGrade 2, 60 minutes
This program focuses on the second grade social studies curriculum standards for Community and Diversity. By examining objects from the Museum’s collection representing celebrations of culture, festivals, and heritage, students will engage with the diverse cultural history of their community and explore how these cultural…
Destination Hoboken: the City and ImmigrationRead moreGrades 3-5, 60 minutes
From Native Americans over 10,000 years ago, to Dutch settlers of the early 17th century, to large-scale immigration and migration of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hoboken has always been a community of immigrants – a people in motion. Ship manifests and immigration documents from the…
Traveling Trunk ProgramRead moreGrades 2-10, 60 minutes
If you’re unable to bring your students to the Museum, we’ll bring the Museum to you! Choose from one of eight “Traveling Trunks” – historic steamship trunks, fully stocked with a complete interactive history workshop and primary source materials, ready to be investigated. Programs are easily…
Hoboken Fire Department MuseumRead more213 Bloomfield Street, 45-60 minutes
There’s something for everyone at the Hoboken Fire Department Museum. Young visitors will experience an interactive Storytime program, and get a boost into the driver’s seat of the shiny red Ahrens Fox fire engine, built circa 1932. This “Cadillac” of fire trucks has been…
History Detectives: Primary Source InvestigationsRead moreGrades 4 - 10, 60 minutes
How do historians learn about the past? What is a primary source? In History Detectives, students will explore and analyze objects from the Museum’s collection to learn how to “read” artifacts, documents, and photographs. Developing skills of historical inquiry is an important way to…
Local History & Architecture Walking TourRead more60-90 minutes
Focusing on the link between local architecture and history, our walking tour can be tailored to fit individual classes and grade levels. After first using visual skills to identify architectural elements in historic photographs, students will then identify and discuss actual buildings’ features as we walk. Discussions…