Programs

Tour Cost

After-Hours Tour Cost

Number Required

Approximate Length

Tour of Campus Martius Museum*

$6.00

$10.00

20 or more

No set length* See below for recommendation

Pioneer Living Program***

$9.00

$13.00

20 or more

2 Hour Minimum***

My Favorite Things Tour

$9.00

$13.00

20 or more

1 – 2 hours for Guided Tour

Dessert with a Pioneer

$13.00

$17.00

20 – 50

1.5 – 2 hours

*Tour Length Recommendations: Allow 1.5 hours for Campus Martius; 1 hour for Ohio River Museum

**Tour Length Recommendation: 2.5 hours for both Campus Martius and Ohio River Museum

***Added programs require additional 30 minutes per program

 

Tour of Museum

Enjoy a self-guided tour of either Campus Martius Museum (guided tour of Putnam House included) or the Ohio River Museum (guided tour of W.P. Snyder Jr. Steam Towboat included-weather permitting).

Pioneer Living

Enjoy a self-guided tour of Campus Martius Museum and the Rufus Putnam House as well as experiencing pioneer life by participating in two of the following programs: Pioneer Clothing, Ordinance of 1787, Underground Railroad, or Revolutionary War Military Drill. (Additional programs are offered at an additional cost)

My Favorite Things Tour

Join a staff member and learn the stories behind their favorite artifacts. Learn the amusing, sad, or unbelievable stories that you won’t learn by touring the museum on your own. Decide for yourself if they are myths and legends or absolute truth.

Dessert with a Pioneer

What would you like to ask Rufus Putnam if you had the opportunity? What about Mary Bird Lake or Mary Gardner Owen?  Now is your chance to mingle with early settlers. Enjoy a dessert and a visit with a person from the past.  Learn more about what it was like to nurse people who are sick with small pox or be the first woman to arrive in Marietta. What was it like to survey a wilderness and settle a new frontier?