Tours and Field Trips - Outreach Programs - Group Opportunities

Please call the Education Office at 717-291-4371 if you have any questions about North Museum education resources or group visits.

Educational Resources
Every kit has a new addition: a revised teacher's manual, including a curriculum guide that is based on the Pennsylvania Academic Standards! Every kit has some new materials! Real specimens like animal tails or bird bills, artifacts like Native American items, games, samples, books and worksheets pack each kit.

Teachers must pick up and return loan kits at the Museum. Reservations are required.

Loan Kits
Loan Kit Pricing (Two checks will expedite refunds.)

Deposit $25 each kit
One Week = $25 each kit
Two Weeks = $45 each kit

Currently Available


• Electricity and Magnetism
• Herptiles (Reptiles and Amphibians)
• Human Body
• People of the Susquehanna
• Pennsylvania Mammals I
• Ocean Animals
• Birds
• Pennsylvania Mammals 2
• Geology
• Space

Equipment Loans (Inquire about other items.)
You must pick up and return equipment at the Museum. Reservations are required.

Microscope Slides
144 glass slides on 12 topics with resource books included. (insects, plankton, blood, pollen and spores, tiny creatures)

Deposit $25
One Week $25
Two Weeks $45

Geology Equipment
10 Estwing junior rock hammers, 10 safety goggles and field guides.

Deposit $50
One Week $35
Two Weeks $50

Traveling Museum Collections
Packaged exhibit pricing: $100 for one marking period (8 weeks). For information and loan agreement specifics call 717-358-7188. Distance fee will be assessed beyond a 25 mile radius of the museum.

These packaged exhibits have been assembled in response to requests from schools and businesses. They are for a locking glass exhibit case (6' x 6' to 10' x 12') with shelves. Signs and descriptions are included. The collections are for display only.

• Animal Skulls (reptiles, mammals, amphibians, land and water creatures)
• Butterflies and Moths (cocoons, caterpillars, Ricker mounts)
• Fossils of the World (mammoths, plants and animals of land and water)
• Native American Artifacts of Central Pennsylvania (Shenk's Ferry, Late Woodland, Susquehannock)
• Pennsylvania Birds (raptors, owls, songbirds)
• Rocks, Minerals, Crystals of the World
• Shells of the World (fresh, salt and land, corals, arthropods and shark jaws)