Explore VHS Education Programs and Field Trip Experiences

Attention Teachers!

A trip to "Freedom and Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories" is an engaging and rich supplement to your social studies curriculum on Vermont history. Children's educational groups are free! The VHS offers many different field trip experiences and will customize Museum tours to fit your lesson plans.

Before You Visit

Visit us virtually before your field trip! The Freedom and Unity exhibit is now available online! Visit www.freedomandunity.org to preview the exhibit and make classroom connections before or after your trip.

Programs & Guided Tours:

    Freedom & Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories

    A Day in Montpelier

    You Be the Historian

    VHS Research Library in Barre  

    Vermont History Day

    Community History Project

The Museum can work with teachers to create special programs, like this live exhibition to demonstrate how shoes were made in Vermont during the nineteenth century.

Freedom & Unity Exhibit Overview

In the "Freedom and Unity" exhibit, students will walk through time, exploring settings such as:

• an Abenaki dwelling
• the Catamount Tavern
• a shoemaker's shop
• a general store
• a World War II era living room
• a railroad station
• a tourist cabin
• a creamery

Other topics presented include Vermont's role in the Civil War, use of the land, and how public issues are debated.

To plan your trip, visit the "Freedom & Unity" exhibit online.