Prepare for Your Oliver Kelley Farm 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 will spend over half of their field trip outside.
• Review confirmation materials for details on your visit, including schedule of events.

When you arrive at the Oliver Kelley Farm

• Please send the group leader to check in at the front desk within the Visitor Center. 
• Be prepared to give an accurate count of the number of students, school staff, and chaperones. 
• Once check-in is complete, you will be directed to bring students into the Visitor Center for orientation. Please note, the only restrooms at the farm are located within the Visitor Center. We highly recommend students use the restroom before orientation begins, as there are no facilities on the historic site.

Accessibility

The Oliver Kelley Farm 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. Email fieldtrips@mnhs.org to discuss your group’s access needs.

• All restrooms are accessible, including an All Gender Family Bathroom. 
• American Sign Language interpreters are available with two weeks’ notice. 
• Wheelchairs are available on-site for use during your visit. First come, first serve.
• Groups can expect to travel anywhere from ¾ to 1 ¼ miles over the entirety of their field trip experience on  a mixture of graded,  gravel pathways and grassy, uneven ground.

Review the Oliver Kelley Farm Field Trip Social Narrative to prepare your group.

Learn more about accessibility at the Oliver Kelley Farm.

Oliver Kelley Farm museum manners

• Walk and stay with your group to ensure everyone stays safe.
• Use indoor voices so everyone can hear and learn. 
• Be respectful of staff, each other, your chaperones and other visitors.
• Protect historic objects by only touching when directed to do so.
• Follow the animal safety guidelines outlined during your group’s orientation. 
• Turn cell-phones to vibrate or silent during the field trip.

Field trip preview

Learn more about the Farm with the virtual tour!