Help your students experience history as they never have before with MOHAI's exciting Seattle history exhibit and education programs.

Essential Seattle: A city revealed, the future imagined
MOHAI has completely redesigned its K-12 educational programs to compliment this comprehensive exhibit

Student groups may experience the Essential Seattle exhibition by booking either a self-guided visit which includes focused educational activities led by your chaperones or a hands-on guided program.  All programs are age appropriate, EALR aligned and support the skills needed to implement the Dig Deep Classroom Based Assessment for history. 
Scholarships are available for low income schools, including funds for transportation

Martha Lindsey
Education Programs and Volunteer Coordinator
Phone: 206-324-1126 ext. 12
martha.lindsey@seattlehistory.org

Note- Advance Booking is required.  MOHAI does not guarantee admission to student groups of 10 or more without reservations.

Hands on Programs by Grade Level

Primary (K-2)
Discovering Seattle Stories
Students are the storytellers using primary sources to explore Seattle’s past. 

Intermediate (3-5)
Cracking the History Code
Students become code breakers by gathering evidence from primary sources to reveal the stories of the region’s past.

Middle School (6-8)
History? Fact vs. Fiction
Students must separate historical fact from fiction by examining primary sources to seek out the truth about why events happened in Seattle history.

School Museum
In this all-day program, students go behind the scenes at MOHAI to learn about the work of museum professionals, and to study exhibits from a new and exciting point of view.   Students then work in teams to create their own historical exhibits using artifacts and photographs from the MOHAI collection.s

Self- Guided Visits
Any group can book a self-guided visit any time during regular museum hours.