reserve a tour for your school group
Join the nearly 3,000 k-12 school children who visit PWM annually and take a tour with your classroom or organization and learn all about wildlife, wildlife conservation, and what we can do to protect global biodiversity!
Our trained docents will guide you and your students through a wildlife-conservation-themed tour of our museum showcasing our extensive collection of taxidermy, fossils, and artifacts. Inspire awe and wonder in your students as you get immersed in our dioramic exhibits and meet, first hand, some of the resident reptiles and amphibians in our live small animal collection!
School tours are available Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays throughout the academic school year (Sept. - May). Each tour begins at 11:00am and ends at approximately 12:20pm; optional flex time is available until 12:45pm. If bringing bag lunches, please feel free to enjoy in our courtyard area from 12:20-1:15.
PLEASE NOTE: for the 2022-23 school year only, we are offering a new "Early Bird" tour of the Museum on select dates. The Early Bird Tour begins at 8:40am and ends at approximately 10:00am with optional flex time until 10:30am.
The maximum group size admitted per tour is 60 individuals including chaperones. Tours are $5 per entrant and payment can be made up to the day of the trip (online payments are accepted via our webpage under the "donations" link below; checks should be made to "Petaluma Wildlife Museum"). Title 1 schools are free! Please note: full-size school buses must drop off your group in front of Petaluma High School and park on Fair Street (you will then take a short walk -approx. 400 yards- through the PHS student parking lot to our facilities).
In order to begin the process of reserving a tour, please follow the directions below :)
Our trained docents will guide you and your students through a wildlife-conservation-themed tour of our museum showcasing our extensive collection of taxidermy, fossils, and artifacts. Inspire awe and wonder in your students as you get immersed in our dioramic exhibits and meet, first hand, some of the resident reptiles and amphibians in our live small animal collection!
School tours are available Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays throughout the academic school year (Sept. - May). Each tour begins at 11:00am and ends at approximately 12:20pm; optional flex time is available until 12:45pm. If bringing bag lunches, please feel free to enjoy in our courtyard area from 12:20-1:15.
PLEASE NOTE: for the 2022-23 school year only, we are offering a new "Early Bird" tour of the Museum on select dates. The Early Bird Tour begins at 8:40am and ends at approximately 10:00am with optional flex time until 10:30am.
The maximum group size admitted per tour is 60 individuals including chaperones. Tours are $5 per entrant and payment can be made up to the day of the trip (online payments are accepted via our webpage under the "donations" link below; checks should be made to "Petaluma Wildlife Museum"). Title 1 schools are free! Please note: full-size school buses must drop off your group in front of Petaluma High School and park on Fair Street (you will then take a short walk -approx. 400 yards- through the PHS student parking lot to our facilities).
In order to begin the process of reserving a tour, please follow the directions below :)
In order to book a tour, please email the Instructor of Classes (Phil Tacata) directly at ptacata@petk12.org. In the subject line, please write "BOOK A TOUR" and in the body of the email, include the following:
- Your name and title
- Your school/organization (please note if your school is a Title-1 funded program)
- Your contact information (email and cell number)
- The date you'd like to come for a tour (please check the available dates below; note there are dates for both "Normal" and "Early Bird" tours)
- Whether the requested tour is during "Normal" hours (11am-12:20pm) or is an "Early Bird" tour (8:40am-10am).
- Age range of the students/visitors
- Number of students and number of adult chaperones
- What you're learning/covering in class that's related to your visit to a wildlife museum (so we have a better idea of how to approach your particular tour)
- Whether or not you'd like to eat lunch in our courtyard after the tour (option not available for "Early Bird" tours)
- Any other requests you have pertaining to the tour or visit
UNFORTUNATELY, ALL AVAILABLE DATES FOR TOURS OF OUR FACILITY THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN BOOKED... We will begin taking tour requests again in early August, 2023, for available dates starting in October, 2023, and continuing throughout the rest of the school year until May, 2024.
We wish you a great summer and please keep an eye out for next school year's Tour, Zoo-Haul, and Birthday Party sign-ups come August, 2023 :)
-The Staff & Students of the PWM
We wish you a great summer and please keep an eye out for next school year's Tour, Zoo-Haul, and Birthday Party sign-ups come August, 2023 :)
-The Staff & Students of the PWM