Experience history hands-on at Strawbery Banke.
Strawbery Banke Museum offers a wide range of educational programming for various grade-levels and interests. Classes can visit for a self-guided tour or add workshops and guided tours create an even more enriching experience. All programs are designed to connect to national and state curriculum standards.
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Primary Grade
(Grades K-3)
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Upper Elementary
(Grades 4-6)
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Middle & High School
(Grades 7-12)
Frequently Asked Questions
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Reservations are required for all programs and self-guided visits. To book a trip, please fill out a Reservation Request Form.
Once your visit is scheduled, you’ll receive a Confirmation Email and important information about your trip. Please check your confirmation page for accuracy and call us with any changes.
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-Time Travel Workshops: $15.00 per student/$10.00 per adult chaperone
-Thanksgiving Program: $15.00 per student/$10.00 per adult chaperone
-History Explorers Program: $15.00 per student/$10.00 per adult chaperone
-Self-Guided Visit: $10.00 per student/$10.00 per adult chaperone
NOTE: Classroom teachers and school staff attend at no charge and participation in any Time Travel Workshop includes admission to the museum.
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Strawbery Banke Museum is located in beautiful, historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire on the southern bank of the Piscataqua River. Portsmouth is 1 hour north of Boston, 1 hour south of Portland, and 1 hour east of Manchester. The street address is 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth.
GPS Coordinates for Strawbery Banke Museum: N43°4.4919, W070°45.198
Directions to Strawbery Banke Museum
From either I-95N or I-95S, take exit 7 (downtown Portsmouth)
At the end of the ramp, head south towards the center of Portsmouth: left if coming from the north, right if coming from the south.
Proceed approximately one mile, through one traffic light, to a yellow blinking light. At this blinking light veer to the right onto Russell Street. At the stop sign at the end of Russell Street, take a right.
At the next intersection, make a left turn onto Maplewood Ave. Stay in the left lane and go through 2 sets of lights. At the third set of lights take a left onto State Street.
Get into the right-hand lane on State Street. Go through 2 sets of lights and continue to the stop sign where State Street intersects with Marcy Street.
Take a right onto Marcy Street. (Prescott Park will be on the left hand side). Proceed on Marcy Street, past The Puddle Dock Restaurant and take the next right, which is Hancock Street. The Strawbery Banke Museum parking lot is on your immediate right. Museum ticketing is in the Lawrence J. Yerdon Visitors Center, conveniently located adjacent to the parking lot.
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To learn more about accessibility at the Museum visit the Museum Accessibility webpage.
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If have specific questions or want more information about our programs and curricular offerings, please email [email protected]. An educational coordinator will be sure to contact you.
History Within Reach Scholarship Program
The History Within Reach program provides experiential learning workshops to economically underserved New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts schools. For many History Within Reach students, this is their first school trip and first visit to a Museum. The History Within Reach program provides scholarship funds to help cover costs based on the school’s financial status.
In addition to students experiencing self-guided tours of Strawbery Banke’s historic houses, schools may participate in workshops: hands-on sessions that delve deeper into topics like archaeology, architecture, hearth cooking, Colonial trades, and economics. Some highlights in workshops are making cookies over an open hearth to learn about 18th-century daily life, participating in a "dishpan dig" to
learn the archaeological process, working together to build the model of an 18th-century house, engaging in a game simulating Colonial trade routes to learn how the maritime economy worked, and taking on the role of researchers using primary sources to investigate some of the immigrant families who lived in Puddle Dock.
All History Within Reach programs are carefully designed to meet national curriculum standards, and state curriculum standards for New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. These standards include C3 Frameworks, Next Generation Science Standards, and Common Core requirements.