What's Happening at Fort Ticonderoga:
Programs & Daily Schedule
Fort Ticonderoga Family Activities Schedule
July 1 – August 25, 2009
Tours, demonstrations and interpreters in period clothing will make your visit fun any time you come. Museums are open all day for self-guided tours, too!
| 9:30-11:00 | 11:30-1:00 | 1:45-3:30 | 3:45-4:45 | |
| Monday | "Bag It!" Learn basic sewing techniques and take home a small bag. |
"Make Your Mark" Design your wax seal. |
"Bundle Up!" Try on some 18th-century clothes like those worn by children in the 1770s. |
"Let's Play!" Try your hand at some 18th-century games. |
| Tuesday | "Sailing on the Lake" Build a miniature paper Bateau. |
"Lesson of the Day" Make your own horn book, a "high-tech" learning tool of the 18th century. |
"Bundle Up!" Try on some 18th-century clothes like those worn by children in the 1770s. |
"Let's Play!" Try your hand at some 18th-century games. |
| Wednesday | "Papyrotamia" Try your hand at this 18th-century art form. |
"Design a Fort" Become a military engineer and design your own fort. |
"Bundle Up!" Try on some 18th-century clothes like those worn by children in the 1770s. |
"Let's Play!" Try your hand at some 18th-century games. |
| Thursday | "Sailing on the Lake" Build a miniature paper Bateau. |
"Dear Diary" Create a soldier's diary. |
"Bundle Up!" Try on some 18th-century clothes like those worn by children in the 1770s. |
"Let's Play!" Try your hand at some 18th-century games. |
| Friday | "Traveling in Style!" Put together your own paper traveling trunk. |
"Keep Your Powder Dry!" Design your own powder horn. |
"Bundle Up!" Try on some 18th-century clothes like those worn by children in the 1770s. |
"Let's Play!" Try your hand at some 18th-century games. |
| Saturday | "Dear Diary" Create a soldier's diary. |
"Lesson of the Day" Make your own horn book, a "high-tech" learning tool of the 18th century. |
"Bundle Up!" Try on some 18th-century clothes like those worn by children in the 1770s. |
"Let's Play!" Try your hand at some 18th-century games. |
| Sunday | "What's For Dinner?" Find out what's cooking and learn about feeding the troops at Ticonderoga. |
"Bundle Up!" Try on some 18th-century clothes like those worn by children in the 1770s. |
"Let's Play!" Try your hand at some 18th-century games. |
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Visitors, families, students, teachers, adults, and groups of all ages have long come to Fort Ticonderoga to study first-hand the lessons forged here, in times of war and peace, across the centuries. In addition to our calendar of public programs, we have prepared custom on- and off-site programs for wide ranging audiences. We look forward to sharing our story with you!
- For families and visitors – When the Fort is open from May through October, changing daily schedules feature short public programs and demonstrations presented by our trained staff, as well as programs specifically designed for families with children. View a sample daily schedule.
- For students on-site – Chaperoned student and youth groups may register to participate in "America's First Victory," our award-winning children's education program about Ethan Allen's capture of the Fort in 1775.
- For students off-site – Our trained museum educators bring history to life in your classroom using dynamic techniques of first-person interpretation, and through artifact- and primary source-based instruction. These supplementary curricula meet state learning standards and cover such topics as military garrison life in the 18th-century. Classroom outreach programs can be scheduled for schools within our service area and beyond by appointment.
- For adults – Scholars and amateur enthusiasts meet at the Fort each year to delve into the history surrounding the military campaigns fought here during the annual War College of the Seven Years War in the spring, and the Seminar on the American Revolution held each fall.
- For military personnel – Fort Ticonderoga also has a long tradition of conducting military "staff rides" for uniformed and civilian defense personnel, who come to study modernday applications for lessons learned on the battlefield here during the 18th-century.
Beginning in spring 2008, the new on-site education center will host educational programs on a year-round basis. Greater remote learning capabilities also will be created with the opening of the new education center.
