Scheduling Your Visit
Contact the education department at 215.340.9800, x124 to schedule
date, time of tour, and arrangements for lunch, shop visitation, and use of
education room. Reserve early in the school year to assure your preferred dates.
Please note that your visit is not confirmed until you receive a confirmation
letter via fax or mail. Please review the confirmation to ensure all of the
information is correct.
Changes in Your Tour Program/Cancellation
If you must change or cancel your confirmed program, please do so as quickly as possible by contacting the Education Department by phone. Please note that we cannot always accommodate changes. If you do not notify the Education department of your change/cancellation with at least 48 hours notice, then you may incur a cancellation fee. If you do not arrive on the day of your program without notification to the Education department, you will be charged in full for your program. This excludes weather related delays and cancellations.
Tour Guidelines
- Arrive on time. Tours are closely scheduled, and docents have a
strict timetable. Please call the museum at 215.340.9800 with any delay.
Late arrivals may have a shortened tour.
- At the Doylestown Location, Buses may discharge and pick up visitors
at Pine Street entrance way, then park at rear of library parking lot. At New
Hope, Buses may discharge and pick up visitors in front of the museum then
park in the rear of Union Square's parking lot.
- Tour with orientation is approximately 1 hour long.
- Chaperones are expected to stay with their group at all times.
- Pencil activities need prior arrangement. No pens, please! See
Guidelines for Written Activities (below).
- Backpacks, packages, gum & food are not permitted in galleries.
- Cameras are permitted, but no flashes, please.
- Touch with eyes, not fingertips. Remember, sculpture is art, too.
- Polite behavior in the museum includes no running or shouting. Other
visitors are in the galleries during your tour.
- Please do not lean against walls or pedestals as some of them are movable.
No climbing on outdoor sculpture or buildings.
- Museum personnel are available for assistance during your visit.
- The museum is accessible to people with disabilities. Please call for
specifics.
Thank you for abiding by our Guidelines. We expect your cooperation, and the
museum reserves the right to ask any member of your group to leave if these
rules are not observed. The rules are for your safety and for the enjoyment of
your tour.
Written Activity Guidelines
- Teacher supervised high school and college groups may write or sketch with
pencils in galleries.
- Third grade through junior high groups may do written pencil activities while
seated in an assigned gallery space.
- Pre-school through second grade may use the education room for all writing and
drawing activities.
- Teachers must notify museum PRIOR to the day of the tour if they have a written
assignment for students to do.
- Written assignments must be provided by the teacher for third grade through
college students.
- Only pencils and clipboards supplied by the museum may be used. They will be
distributed and collected by the docent.
Chaperones
Arrange for one chaperone per six students, and distribute
letter to chaperones.
Fees
Please view the School Programs Fee Schedule Sheet
[PDF, 22K] for the current school year. Lunch facilities for visiting groups are
available at the Doylestown site only. Tables are not available. More
information on groups having lunch at the Museum can be found on our
Lunch Guidelines Sheet.
Museum Shop
Our Museum Shop is available to the students following the tour. For preschool and
elementary age children, we have a museum shop cart. Please notify the education
department in advance if your students will be in the shop following their tour.
On Arrival
Your group will be greeted in the lobby by the lead docent. Please pay at the front
desk for your group.
Prior to Arrival
Please have large groups divided according to instructions on your Tour
Confirmation sheet. Have elementary and preschool age students wear nametags.
Flip-flop Tour with Mercer Museum
For large school groups, consider a dual tour with the Mercer Museum. Half the
students can tour the Michener while the other half visits the Mercer. After
one hour, the two groups switch places. Reservations and payment must be made
separately with the Mercer Museum
(215.345.0210).
Museum Visit Evaluation Form
Please print and complete our Museum Visit Evaluation Form [79K PDF]
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