The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center is currently closed for renovations, but we have great experiences in store for students and youth groups when we reopen in March, 2010.

We are now accepting bookings for field trips which begin on Tuesday, March 23, 2010.

Field trips are available Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Youth group visits may also be scheduled on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Customize your group’s visit by choosing from as many of the following hands-on Indiana Experience options as your schedule will allow:

You Are There: 1945 Hoosier Home Front – Step back in time through a historic photograph to 1945 in Terre Haute, Indiana, where you will visit the Citizen’s Market and chat with interpreters about rationing, World War II and life on the home front.

You Are There 1924: Tool Guys and Tin Lizzies – Walk into a 1924 repair shop in Hartford City, Indiana, where you will encounter Model T Fords, Fordson tractors and the handyman’s tools. Climb into the cars, help the mechanics make some repairs, learn about early 19th-century trades and chat with interpreters about the automobile craze, small-town life in the 1920s and the Jazz Age.

Destination Indiana – Send your students on a time-travel journey through IHS’s vast collection. Depending on the size of your group, students may guide their own investigations at individual computer stations or journey through Indiana’s past with a facilitated big-screen presentation. Several topics are available for big-screen presentations, including “Welcome to Monument Circle,” “Explore the Monument,” “The Statehouse,” “Circle Theater,” “Traction Terminal,” “African Americans in Indiana,” “Mapping Indiana,” “Indiana in the Civil War” and “Transportation by Rail.”

W. Brooks and Wanda Y. Fortune History Lab – Take on the role of a conservator and participate in a hands-on paper mending activity in our History Lab where you will learn how science and history work together in the field of conservation.

INvestigation Stations – Do some detective work with primary sources at our new and improved INvestigation Stations. Our facilitators will help your students to discover clues in photographs and documents in order to solve the mysteries of the past.

Indiana Experience field trips cost $3.50 per student. One chaperone is required for every 10 students; additional adults are $6 each ($5.50 for seniors).

Call (317) 234-1595 or e-mail us to book a memorable field trip.