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Prepare for Your Snake River Fur Post Field Trip
Tips to prepare yourself, your students, and your chaperones for your field trip.
Before your visit
- Consider your group's accessibility needs and communicate these to our team at fieldtrips@mnhs.org.
- Discuss museum manners with your students.
- Share visit schedules with the staff and chaperones.
- Assign students to specific chaperones. A ratio of one chaperone for every ten students is required.
- Ensure everyone has weather appropriate footwear and clothing. Students can expect to spend at least half of their field trip outside.
- Review confirmation materials for details on your visit, including schedule of events.
Directions and parking
Share copies of directions and parking information with bus drivers and chaperones.
When you arrive at Snake River Fur Post
- Staff will meet buses at drop off to check in the group.
- Be prepared to give an accurate count of the number of students, school staff, and chaperones.
- In pleasant weather, groups will gather outside into their groups to begin their visit. In the case of inclement weather, we’ll start your experience from inside.
- Each group (as listed in your confirmation) will get a marked bin to store their bags, coats, and lunches.
Accessibility
The Snake River Fur Post welcomes all visitors and strives to make everyone’s visit a positive experience. Please let us know if your group has anyone with special accommodation needs. Call 651-259-3400 to discuss your group’s access needs.
- Public restrooms in the Museum include accessible stalls.
- American Sign language interpreters are available with two week’s notice.
- Wheelchairs are available on-site for use during your visit. First come, first serve.
Review the Snake River Fur Post Field Trip Social Narrative to prepare your group.
Learn more about accessibility at the Snake River Fur Post.
Chaperone tips
- Ensure chaperones know their schedule, including arrival, departure, and program times.
- Preview: Send them the link to the Snake River Fur Post webpage to get them excited about their day and familiar with the historic site.
- Assign students to specific chaperones.
Chaperones are responsible for the conduct of the students they are accompanying. Students are required to remain with their chaperones at all times.
Snake River Fur Post museum manners
- Walk and stay with your group to ensure everyone stays safe.
- Use indoor voices so everyone can hear and learn.
- Only plain water is allowed in sealed bottles in the exhibit gallery (no food).
- Be respectful of staff, each other, your chaperones and other visitors.
- Protect historic objects by only touching when a staff member says it's okay.
- Turn cell-phones to vibrate or silent during the field trip.
Lunch
You are welcome to eat lunch at Snake River Fur Post. Picnic tables are available on the south side of the Visitor Center. Should the weather be less than perfect the Great Hall serves as an indoor lunch space.
Reach out to fieldtrips@mnhs.org if you’d like to add lunch to your visit schedule.
Field trip preview
Explore the site from your classroom with the virtual tour.
Questions?
Please contact our staff at fieldtrips@mnhs.org or 651-259-3400. All booking requests must be submitted through our Request Form.