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Tour Options

CICS Basil Students Waiting for SpeakerWelcome! Thank you for your interest in planning a field trip to IHMEC. We offer a variety of docent-led tour options for your students and encourage you to review the options below to determine the best fit for your school and students' needs (PDF available).

 

IHMEC field trips are offered to accredited elementary schools, junior high/middle schools, and high schools, grades 3-12. Colleges/universities, supplementary programs, non-profit groups, and all other organizations should request docent-led group tours.

 
In Our Voices (Grades 7-12) >
Become a Witness (Grades 6 and above) >
Memory, History, Culture (Grades 5 and above) >
Take a Stand (Grades 3 and above) >
 
2010-2011 FIELD TRIP OPTIONS

 

 

 

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:

  • Temporary Exhibition Gallery
  • 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: 3 hours
Times: 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 (weekdays), 11:00 (weekends), 5:00 (Thursday evenings)
Group Size: 160 students maximum

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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:

  • Make a Difference: Miller Family Youth Exhibition
  • Legacy of Absence Gallery

 

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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