The arrival of a steamboat was a big event. Children loved to go to the pier to see it. Children who participate in the museum’s Friday morning activities will learn what it was like being a child during the Steamboat Era

Friday morning children’s activities will begin June 24 at the Steamboat Era Museum. Kids from 4-12, accompanied by an adult, will learn about the history of how steamboats impacted the communities around the Chesapeake Bay. They will have fun imagining what being a child over a century ago was like.

Children will learn about the Steamboat Era in the Northern Neck and Chesapeake Bay by viewing photos of children and adults from the Steamboat Era, turning the Potomac pilothouse wheel and ringing the engine order telegraph bell, playing children’s games popular during the Steamboat Era and making a wooden steamboat and testing it in the water

The museum is also offering two new children’s scavenger hunts in 2022. A special hunt has been developed for younger visitors which includes a steamboat coloring page.

Kid’s activities are every Friday from June 25 through August 19, 10:30 – Noon. The fee is $5 per child. Adult(s) are free for the tours. To reserve a space for Friday morning children’s activities, call the museum at 438-6888