Field trips in Indiana

Living-history village and interactive park recreating 1800s Indiana frontier life with costumed interpreters and hands-on pioneer activities.

One of the world's largest children's museums with hands-on exhibits spanning science, history, and literacy — broad cross-curricular engagement for elementary-age learners.

Museum dedicated to Native American and Western American art and history — covers Indigenous cultures and frontier-era social history.

Ohio River fossil beds with interpretive center — covers paleontology, Devonian-era marine fossils, and river geology in a hands-on outdoor setting.

National park spanning dunes, wetlands, and Lake Michigan shoreline — covers geology, ecology, and Great Lakes geography with ranger programs.

Operating heritage railway museum with excursion rides — covers railroad engineering history, steam technology, and Indiana transportation development.

Large Indiana state museum covering natural history, Indiana heritage, and cultural history with hands-on exhibits spanning geology to the 20th century.

Earlham College natural history museum housing dinosaur fossils, Pleistocene mammals, and geology specimens — covers paleontology, taxonomy, and Indiana natural history.

Newfields (formerly IMA) combines an art museum with gardens and a nature park — supports visual arts, art history, and nature study.

Pioneer-era living-history farm museum — covers 19th-century agriculture, domestic skills, and frontier settlement life through hands-on demonstrations.

State park site of the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe with living-history farm and prairie restoration — covers Native American relations, frontier conflict, and Indiana ecology.

Indiana state park with steep sandstone canyons and old-growth forest — covers geomorphology, forest ecology, and physical education through trail hiking.

Hands-on science and math museum for children — exhibits cover physics, biology, and engineering through interactive experiments.

Museum in Bardstown covering Civil War artifacts, Kentucky's divided loyalties, and military history of the western theater.

Columbus, IN architectural tour documents mid-century modernist buildings by Eero Saarinen and others — covers architecture, civic design, and 20th-century urban history.

Museum honoring Crispus Attucks and African-American contributions in Indiana — covers Civil Rights history, the American Revolution, and social justice movements.

University art museum at Ball State with a broad permanent collection spanning world cultures — supports art history and visual analysis.

NPS site commemorating George Rogers Clark's 1779 Northwest Campaign — covers Revolutionary War western theater and the founding of the Old Northwest.

Indiana dinosaur museum with fossil casts and paleontology exhibits — covers prehistoric life, fossil formation, and earth history.

Preserved 1890s pathology and research facility — covers the history of neuroscience, psychiatric medicine, and early laboratory science.

Museum preserving Indianapolis firefighting history with vintage apparatus and equipment — covers public-safety history and early 20th-century technology.

Dedicated circus history site covering the cultural and performance history of American circus arts and touring companies.

Historic home of naturalist-author Gene Stratton-Porter — connects conservation writing, early 20th-century natural history, and Indiana wetlands ecology.

NPS memorial at Lincoln's boyhood farm site — covers Lincoln's formative years, frontier Indiana life, and 19th-century pioneer history.