Field Trips

BRING YOUR STUDENTS TO THE MUSEUM!

The Education team at the Nevada State Museum enthusiastically offers three different tours of the museum. School group tours at the Nevada State Museum are available by appointment Tuesday through Friday with the first tour available at 9:00 AM and the final tour of the day at 2:00 PM. Guided tours are subject to volunteer availability. Please allow at least 30 days advance notice for your tour. Our current tour offerings are the following:

WALK THROUGH NEVADA HISTORY TOUR
COMING AUGUST 2026

This 60-minute guided tour throughout the museum will tell the stories of the Battleborn State through our volunteer tour guides and immerse your students in Nevada History. Each tour guide will guide up to 25 students and cover topics such as Native American History, Natural History, Nevada’s Wild West History, our reconstructed ghost town/mine, the famous Coin Press No. 1, and more! Please provide us with the number of students so that we may be able to provide enough volunteer tour guides. We kindly ask you to have at least 1 chaperone/teacher for every 10 students. This tour is ideal for groups who have never been to the museum.

NEVADA HISTORY ARTIFACT STATIONS TOUR

This 90-minute stations tour will take your students around the Nevada State Museum as you and your students will be able to get up close with some artifacts throughout the museum and hear stories of the Battleborn State. Students will be broken into 5 different groups, where they will spend 15 minutes at each station learning with our educated volunteer tour guides. Topics include Native American History, the famous Coin Press No. 1, our reconstructed ghost town/mine, and more! We kindly ask you to have at least 1 chaperone for every 10 students and a minimum of 5 teachers or chaperones per field trip. There should be at least 1 chaperone leading each group of students. This tour is ideal for groups who want to spend more time at the museum and feel comfortable navigating from station to station.

NEVADA STATE MUSEUM SELF-GUIDED SCAVENGER HUNT

This 60-minute self-guided tour will engage your students by sending them on a scavenger hunt throughout the museum! Using our official scavenger hunt activity, students will be able to go around the museum to find and learn important information on Nevada’s history. This is a self-guided tour, but students will be able to receive a small prize at the end once they have completed the scavenger hunt. We kindly ask you to have at least 1 chaperone for every 10 students. This option is ideal for groups and teachers who want to go around the museum at their own pace without a tour guide but still interact with our exhibits.

Other self-guided tours of the museum are available upon request.

We also offer Discovery Lab workshops that can be offered with these tours. Click here for more information.

NEVADA STATE CAPITOL TOUR

This 60-minute guided tour will take students through the Nevada State Capitol. Join one of our knowledgeable guides as you and your students explore the second oldest capitol building west of the Mississippi River. We kindly ask you to have at least 1 chaperone for every 10 students. This option is only for the Nevada State Capitol and does not include a tour of the Nevada State Museum.

Please fill out the request form below to be connected with our Education Office. Reservations are required for both guided and self-guided tours.

State Reimbursement for Transportation: All Nevada public schools are eligible for bus reimbursement to visit a state museum! For more information on the reimbursement program, click HERE.