Education Trunks
Education trunks can be rented from the Manassas Museum. Want to provide an enriching supplement for your students on your own schedule? Check out our traveling trunks, complete with teacher's guides and hands'on materials. Contact 703-257-8265 to rent a trunk for your class.


Colonial Life
A trunk containing selected artifacts is used to explore the everyday life of children in 18th Century America. Students can play games, such as quoits, try on a tri-corn hat or mobcap, try out a drum set, and hold reproduction currency. Serveral related books are in the trunk.

• Grades 1-through 6: $35 per one week rental
• Colonial Life Trunk can help with the Virginia SOLs

Civil War Haversack
Explore the life of a Civil War soldier through the contents of a reproduction Civil War Haversack. Topics include food ways, personal hygiene, and recreation.

• Grades 1 through 6: $35 per one week rental
• Civil War Haversack can help with the Virginia SOLs

The Victorian Child Program
This trunk contains selected artifacts used to explore the everyday life of a 19th Century Victorian child. Children can try on wool pants or pinafores, try their hands at a cup-and-ball game, scrub their shirts on a washboard, and write their names on a slate. Several related books are included in the trunk.

• Grades 1 through 5: $35 per one week rental
• Victorian Child can help with the Virginia SOLs

Scouting Opportunities 
The Manassas Museum offers a wide range of opportunities for Scouts to become more familiar with their community. Through activities that can be done with the cooperation of the Museum, Scouts can learn to become leaders and earn badges. We are always happy to talk to individual parents or Scouts about specific projects. Please contact the Programs Coordinator, Doug Horhota, at 703-257-8265. See Additional Information.