Spring Camps
Spring Break Fun Camp
Keep your child busy with some educational fun during spring break! Camp will have three days to explore activities based on STEM, art, and a special mystery day.
Tuesday – Engineering Inventions
Design a container to protect an egg dropped from a significant height. Discover what household materials make the best parachutes and umbrellas in this STEM session of camp.
Wednesday – Nature Art
It’s time to get those imaginations going, using the natural world around us to make beautiful art! We will use seeds and beans to create fantastic mosaics, use leaves to make prints, and so much more.
Thursday – Mystery
Something valuable is missing from the museum! Your mission is to use forensic skills to solve it. Make a disguise, follow clues, and complete some fun puzzles along the journey.
Session I
Tuesday, March 28 – Thursday, March 30 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | $48 ($60 non-members)
Register for Ages 5 – 6 | Register for Ages 7 – 10
Session II
Tuesday, April 11 – Thursday, April 13 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | $48 ($60 non-members)
Girl Scout Events
Girl Scout Juniors: A Victorian Tea
Civil War Museum
Saturday, October 12 | 10:00am – 12:30pm | $30 per scout | Register Here
Travel back in time and explore customs and traditions among women and girls during Victorian America. Learn about the challenges and triumphs of being a girl in this era through accomplishing a creative writing task, trying on clothes, and learning the art of conversation over tea and cake. Girls who complete all the activities will earn both their Playing the Past and Social Butterfly badges. Two badges per scout are included in the ticket price.
Earned Badges: Playing the Past and Social Butterfly
Girl Scout Juniors: Art Adventures
Kenosha Public Museum
Saturday, November 23 | 9:30am – 12:30pm (check-in begins at 9:00am) | $30 per scout | Register Here
Ready, Set, Craft! Explore art, craft and design through the lens of the self-taught artists on display in the upcoming exhibition Rooted Visions. Juniors will create abstract art with paint, learn printmaking for representational art, delve into art history, and craft functional candles. Girls will learn how to bring artistic concepts to life and experiment with color, texture, and form to express their unique visions. Girls who complete all the activities will earn both their Art & Design and Craft & Tinker badges. Two badges per scout are included in the ticket price.
Earned Badges: Art & Design, and Craft & Tinker
Funding support for this program provided by the Creativity by Kids grant program at the Kenosha Community Foundation
Girl Scout Cadettes: Forensic Investigators
Saturday, January 18 | 9:30am – 1:00pm (check-in starts at 9:00am) | $30 per scout | Register Here
Girl Scouts will learn about the exciting world of forensic science by examining fingerprints, recreating blood spatter patterns and extracting DNA. Meet and talk to real-life forensic investigators from the Kenosha Police Department!
Earned Badges: Special Agent
Girl Scout Juniors: Animal Habitats
Saturday, February 8 | 9:30am – 12:00pm (check-in starts at 9:00am) | $30 per scout | Register Here
Become a scientist and study animals in our exhibits to understand their survival adaptations, practice your observation skills with scientific illustration, and create model animal habitats.
Badge Earned: Animal Habitats
Registration ends one week prior to the event. Contact [email protected] for possible openings past deadline date.
Museum Scout Overnights
See the Museum in a whole new light! Scouts aged 6-15 can spend the night at the museum through a private group overnight. Both the Kenosha Public Museum and the Civil War Museum are available for overnights.
Taste of Museum Activities
- Stay up late with museum educators and enjoy activities at the Kenosha Public Museum like hunting an Ice Age mammoth, making fabulous artwork, and solving a museum mystery.
- At the Civil War Museum, get a hands-on, up-close look at real artifacts from the 19th century, learn about the different foods available to soldiers, and feel like you’re in the middle of a battle during our 360-degree film, “Seeing the Elephant”.
- Switch on your flashlight and explore the exhibitions like never before on a self-guided tour in the dark.
- Watch a movie on the big screen in your pajamas.
- Enjoy a late-night snack before sleeping over with our museum artifacts.
Cost
$80 per child, $20 per adult
A minimum of 25 children is required for an overnight.
Activities, Badges, Girl Scout Patches
Each event is customized to the needs of your group and includes a Museum Overnight Patch (for Girl Scouts), the ‘Taste of the Museum’ program which includes three activities that highlight the collection of the museum, a movie screening of your choice, a late night snack and morning breakfast.
Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Webelos, Arrows of Light, and Boy Scouts can choose to complete a merit badge rather than the ‘Taste of the Museum’ program during their overnight. Badges will incur an additional fee.
Dates and Hours
Overnights are only offered on Fridays and Saturdays. Overnights begin at 6:00pm and end at 9:00am the following morning.
Contact [email protected] for more information and available dates.
On Demand Scout Programs
Bring your troop to the museums to hunt for fossils or explore Wisconsin’s 19th-century past. Hold your next meeting at the museum followed by an educational program
Ages: Programming can be adapted for any age and scout level.
Dates and Times: Flexible, pending availability of museum staff.
To register contact: [email protected]
Payment with a credit or debit card is due at the time of registration.
Troop leaders may register for the scouts in their troops who will be participating.
The Kenosha Public Museums require the Safety-Wise adult to child ratio for events and trips:
- 1 adult for 5 Daisy Girl Scouts
- 1 adult for 8 Brownie Girl Scouts
- 1 adult for 10 Junior Girl Scouts
- 1 adult for 12 Cadette Girl Scouts
Refunds will be issued for cancellations received at least ten business days prior to the program. Refunds will be issued for cancellations if a replacement is registered for the canceled participant.
Cub Scouts
Digging in the Past
Dinosaur Discovery Museum | Maximum Number of Scouts: 30 | Cost per Scout: $20 (includes snack)
- Learn about and identify the dinosaurs at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum.
- Create a fossil cast.
- Discover how paleontologists look for and excavate fossils.
- Be a “paleontologist” and uncover dinosaur fossils.
Wolf Scouts complete the requirements to earn “Digging in the Past” badge
10 scout minimum
Girl Scouts
Lake Michigan Fossil Hunting
Kenosha Public Museum & Off-Site | Duration: 90 minutes |
Minimum Number of Scouts: 10 | Cost per Scout: $20
Hunt for fossils along the sandy shores of Lake Michigan and discover clues to Wisconsin’s ancient underwater past. Meet inside the Kenosha Public Museum for a brief introduction to the types of fossils you’ll find before heading to the lakeside fossil collection area. NOTE: This outdoor program is dependent on weather and beach conditions. Each troop is responsible for transportation to the fossil collection area (transportation not provided by the museum).
Boy Scouts
Technology and the Civil War
Civil War Museum | Duration: 90 minutes |
Minimum Number of Scouts: 10 | Cost per Scout: $20
Learn all about technology during the Civil War at this special Boy Scout Program at the Civil War Museum! Create and build a pontoon bridge, learn about battlefield commands and movements, and communicate using Morse code and the wig-wag flag system. This program helps to meet the following requirements for Signs, Signals, and Codes Merit Badge: 1, 3a.
