Museums with Homeschool Programming

Forest Preserve Champaign County http://www.ccfpd.org/

Early American Museum http://www.champaignmuseum.org/

Homeschool link for the Forest Preserve Champaign County and Early American Museum http://www.ccfpd.org/education/homeschool.html

Most local museums, as part of their educational outreach, offer educational resources, programs and/or tours.

Anita Purves Nature Center http://www.urbanaparks.org/facilities/4.html

(provides educational loan kits)

Champaign County Historical Museum http://www.champaignmuseum.org/

Krannert Art Museum www.kam.uiuc.edu/

(provides Giertz Education Center, which has posters, videos books etc..free for use by educators)

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

http://www.krannertcenter.com/parentsandeducators.aspx

(home of the popular Youth Series)

Chanute Air Museum http://www.aeromuseum.org/

The Sousa Archives/Center for American Music http://www.library.illinois.edu/sousa/

Orpheum Children’s Science Museum http://www.orpheumkids.com/

Spurlock Museum http://www.spurlock.uiuc.edu/

(home of the popular Around the World Wednesdays)

Parkland Art Gallery http://www2.parkland.edu/gallery/

William M. Staerkel Planetarium http://www2.parkland.edu/planetarium/