Group Size: 40 to 80 students (max of 40 students at each site)
Grades: 3 – 8
Price: $3 per student
Total Length: 2.5 hours (60 – 75 minutes at each site)
Available: May – October
Part One:Choose between two options (A) which includes a pre-field trip classroom lesson conducted by a Victoria Mansion educator and an extension activity to be done in class by the teacher, and (B) which consists of just the field trip and on-site activity. Option (A) is available at no extra charge.
(A) Gables, Cornices, and Quoins: The classroom lesson covers the architectural styles most common in Maine and teaches students where their familiar landscape fits in a broader context based on politics, immigration, fashion, and engineering. On-site activity is a walking tour of the neighborhood around Victoria Mansion.
(B) The Morse-Libby Mansion and its Neighborhood
Explore Victoria Mansion and the neighborhood around the museum.
Part Two: Resurgam: The Endurance of Portland, Maine
Visit the Osher Map Library and investigate the destructions, resurrections, and transformations of Maine’s largest city in maps of Portland from the Revolutionary War to the beginning of the twentieth century. (more)
To schedule, please email Renee Keul at rkeul@usm.maine.edu or fill out a visit request form.
Group Size: 40 to 80 students (max of 40 students at each site)
Grades: 3 – 8
Price: $3 per student
Total Length: 2.5 hours (60 – 75 minutes at each site)
Available: February – October
Part One: Choose between two options (A) which includes a pre-field-trip classroom lesson conducted by a Victoria Mansion educator and an extension activity to be done in class by the teacher, and (B) which consists of just the field trip and on-site activity. Option (A) is available at no extra charge.
(A) From Here to There, From Then to Now
The classroom lesson explores travel, beginning in the Colonial era and ending in the late Victorian period, focusing on hotels and transportation. Students are introduced to the technologies that made travel more convenient, frequent, and comfortable in the 19th century. The on-site activity allows students to practice navigational techniques using a paper map.
(B) Travel in the Victorian Era
Learn what traveling was like for Victorians through images of steam transportation and the hospitality business, and by examining the hotel features visible throughout Victoria Mansion and practice navigational techniques using a paper map.
Part Two: “Our Future Lies Over the Water”: Crossing the Atlantic in the Age of Steam
Before steamships, ocean journeys were dangerous, dirty, and miserable, but the great ocean liners of the late 1800s allowed people to cross the Atlantic in relative comfort and safety, uniting the “New World” with the “Old World” in the process. Learn about life on the celebrated ships of the steam age by examining postcards, photographs, maps, and other artifacts from the Morse Ocean Liner Collection at the Osher Map Library. (more)
To schedule, please email Renee Keul at rkeul@usm.maine.edu or fill out a visit request form.
