Please note that bookings are CLOSED. If you have questions please call the museum at 203-743-5200.
During May and June, Danbury Public and Private school students are invited to spend a fun-filled morning in the four historic buildings at the Danbury Museum and an engaging short afternoon at one of our favorite Danbury institutions, the library! (If you are located outside of Danbury and looking for field trip or program opportunities, please email Brigid Guertin at b.guertin@danbury-ct.gov).
Students Will:
Tour the John & Mary Rider house and learn about the start of Danbury’s recorded history, our role as a supply depot in the Revolutionary War, and life in the new United States for the average Danburian of the late 18th century!
Explore Danbury’s hatting, manufacturing, and immigration history in the John Dodd Hat Shop.
Visit our one room schoolhouse to learn about the lives of Indigenous communities in our area.
Be inspired by the legacy of Marian Anderson, her music and her life, in her own music studio.
Enjoy lunch under the tent!
Visit the Danbury Library for a tour, a story, an activity…and (surprise!) receive an awesome bag full of educational support materials courtesy of the Friends of the Danbury Museum and the Friends of the Danbury Library!
This year, there is no charge for the field trip! The Danbury Museum received a grant to cover fieldtrip expenses.
This year we ask you to book your field trips here! Once you select your date, our system will book you and that date will be unavailable to any other schools, so please choose ONLY ONE date for your field trip. In the “notes” section of the appointment you book, please include your school name, contact person, and expected number of students participating in the field trip.
Questions? Please call the museum at 203-743-5200 or email b.guertin@danbury-ct.gov
All the details for this spring's 3rd grade field trips!
Revolutionary War Period in Danbury Student Newsletter (pdf)
DownloadManufacturing Period in Danbury Student Newsletter (pdf)
DownloadIndustrial Period in Danbury Student Newsletter (pdf)
DownloadFrontier/Colonial Danbury (pdf)
DownloadDanbury in the 20th Century (pdf)
DownloadThe Great Danbury State Fair (pdf)
DownloadDanbury History Puzzles and Games (pdf)
DownloadRobert Young, Danbury Museum Trustee and Revolutionary War enthusiast, shares with us "Why Danbury?" a short presentation on the reasons behind the British raid on the town on April 26, 1777.
Revolutionary War re-enactor Eric Chandler reads his account of the life of General David Wooster, hero of. the Burning of Danbury and the subsequent skirmish at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Our colonial era re-enactor Frances Hendrickson reads her account of the life of Sybil Ludington, "the female Paul Revere," including her famous ride across the New York countryside to alert militiamen to the British attack on Danbury.
Our longtime volunteer and Revolutionary War historian Robert Young performs his educational apothecary program.