School Field Trips, Student Programs, and Group Tours in Philadelphia
The Weitzman offers immersive educational field trips, student programs, and group tours that bring American history, civics, immigration, civil rights, religious freedom, and Jewish American history to life. Located in Philadelphia’s Historic District, our programs use artifacts, primary sources, film, and facilitated discussion to help students and adult learners make meaningful connections between the past and the present.
Designed for K-12 schools, colleges and universities, youth organizations, homeschool groups, adult learners, and community organizations, our experiences align with educational standards while encouraging critical thinking, civic engagement, and cross-cultural understanding.
Through nationally recognized curricula and engaging museum experiences, participants explore the diverse stories that have shaped the American experience and examine the enduring relationship between Jewish values and American ideals.
School Field Trips: Title I schools are eligible for fully funded educational field trips, including museum admission and bus transportation. Needs-based funding is also available for other schools.
Contact our Group Sales Manager, AJ McCormick. They can be reached at groups@theweitzman.org or (215) 391-4647.
Spark creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking through hands-on museum experiences inspired by Colors of Creation. Four workshops designed for students in Pre-K through 8th grade connect art, storytelling, and self-expression in ways that bring classroom learning to life.
Inspired by The First Salute: An Untold Story of the American Revolution, this experience invites students to uncover an overlooked chapter of the Revolutionary era. Through artifacts, film, and guided discussion, learners explore freedom, identity, resilience, and the choices that helped shape the American story.
An interactive experience about Jewish immigration in the early 20th century with a historical interpreter.
Find your creative voice with a performance by a contemporary artist and educator, followed by discussion and tour.
What are the unique promises of our country? Where have we fulfilled those promises and where have we fallen short? In this program, we tackle these questions and more.
Roots to Understanding: Screen the powerful film Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life in our theater. After the film, students discuss the impacts of antisemitism and explore its history and contemporary examples in a museum tour focused on resilience, community, and allyship.
Online Program: Participate in our online program that educates about Jews and Jewish peoplehood, Jewish American stories, the history of antisemitism, and its modern-day manifestations. Led by a trained educator as two 50-minute presentations live via video conference.
Explore the extraordinary life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman – and the first Jewish woman – to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. This experience explores Justice Ginsburg’s precedent-setting role on our nation’s highest court and her varied roles as a student, life partner, mother, change-making lawyer, judge, and women’s rights pioneer.
Step back into the 1800s and journey across the continent in a covered wagon with Fanny Brooks and her husband, Julius. Join Fanny for adventures, risks, and surprises as she establishes a business, engages with the predominantly Mormon community of her city, and meets the challenges of life in the American West.
Meet Ezra Jack Keats, the child of immigrants whose dream of becoming an artist by writing children’s books has come true. Primarily self-taught, Keats drew upon his memories growing up in East New York to create pioneering books with generations of adoring fans. His most famous book, The Snowy Day, featured the first African American protagonist in a mass-market children’s book, paving the way for the expansion of multiracial representation in American children’s literature.
Clara Lemlich, the teenage rebel who sparked a major labor uprising.
We re-tell Clara’s inspiring story against the background of mass immigration to America in the early 20th century and the labor movement. Students imagine themselves as Clara and other early 20th-century workers to gain an understanding of leadership and the power of joining with others to “heal the world.”
This in-Museum tour for adult learners exposes the legacy of antisemitism in American history through the objects and stories across nearly four-centuries of Jewish life in America.
During a guided virtual tour of the Museum’s core exhibition, we will explore how central themes of Jewish life in America affected women. This program for adult learners will highlight three centuries of women who overcame obstacles, embraced opportunities, and took on new roles in political affairs, social justice, business, religion, and other fields.
Explore the journey of American Jewish immigrants and their stories that have helped shape America into the country we know and love—led by our docents, who are passionate interpreters of the core exhibition. Allow 90-minutes.
The Weitzman’s educational programming is funded in part by generous donors and through the PA EITC program. If you pay taxes in Pennsylvania, your tax credits could further support this important work. Click here to learn more about this option. Questions? Contact Rachel Berger, Major Gifts and Corporate Giving Officer, at rberger@theweitzman.org or 215.391.4632. Funding for the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.