2010-2011 REGISTRATION PROCESS
Request forms are processed in the order in which they are received and according to availability. We will try our best to fill your request but cannot make any guarantees. Please provide us with at least three weeks’ notice in advance of your requested date.
- PLEASE NOTE: Your field trip date is not confirmed until you receive a formal confirmation letter via email.
- To book a field trip, there is a 10 student minimum. The maximum number of students allowed depends on the tour option you choose:
| In Our Voices | Grades 7-12 | 160 students max | |||
| Become a Witness | Grades 6 and above | 80 students max | |||
| Memory, History, Culture | Grades 5 and above | 60 students max | |||
| Take a Stand | Grades 3 and above | 60 students max |
- If you have more than the maximum number of students, you will need to arrange multiple trips. Please fill out one request form for each proposed visit.
In Our Voices (Grades 7-12)
Explore the history of the Holocaust by taking an inquiry-based walk through our Karkomi Permanent Exhibition. Investigate the experiences of Holocaust survivors, witnesses, resistors, and rescuers through artifacts and testimony. Analyze the human and moral implications of individual choice, responsibility, and memory through connecting galleries and themes. Discover what influences our decision to act as bystanders or upstanders.
Your tour may also include stops in other Museum exhibitions:
Whenever possible, the Museum will schedule an eyewitness to the Holocaust from our Speakers’ Bureau as part of the field trip.
Length: 3 hours
Times: 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 (weekdays), 11:00 (weekends), 5:00 (Thursday evenings)
Group Size: 160 students maximum
Become a Witness (Grades 6 and above)
Learn about the power of one voice in taking a stand for positive change. Draw connections between the lessons and themes of Make a Difference: Miller Family Youth Exhibition to the lessons and themes of a study of the Holocaust and genocide.Explore the following exhibitions:
- Karkomi Permanent Exhibition – Introductory Film through 1938 Kristallnacht Gallery; Closing Film
- Make a Difference: Miller Family Youth Exhibition
- Legacy of Absence Gallery
Whenever possible, the Museum will schedule an eyewitness to the Holocaust from our Speakers’ Bureau as part of the field trip.
Length: 2 hours, 25 minutes
Times: 10:00 (weekdays), 11:30 (weekends), 5:30 (Thursday evenings)
Group Size: 80 students maximum
Memory, History, Culture (Grades 5 and above)
Discover different ways to become more actively involved in your local and global communities through the hands-on activities in Make a Difference: Miller Family Youth Exhibition. Learn how identity, social responsibility, and community tie into introducing a study of the Holocaust, human rights, and genocide.Explore the following exhibitions:
- Karkomi Permanent Exhibition – Introductory Film through 1938 Kristallnacht Gallery only
- Make a Difference: Miller Family Youth Exhibition
- Legacy of Absence Gallery
Length: 2 hours, 25 minutes
Times: 10:00, 12:00 (weekdays), 11:30 (weekends), 5:30 (Thursday evenings)
Group Size: 60 students maximum
Take a Stand (Grades 3 and above)
Through hands-on, interactive activities, discover what it takes to care for yourself and others, learn how to speak up for those being bullied, and understand core values of respect, compassion, justice, and citizenship. Develop the strategies and tools necessary to not only identify a problem, but also to identify and overcome any obstacles to solving that problem.Explore the following exhibitions:
Length: 2 hours, 10 minutes
Times: 10:00, 12:00 (weekdays), 11:30 (weekends), 5:30 (Thursday evenings)
Group Size: 60 students maximum





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