Join Us in Exploring Our

Pratt Museum

People and Place!

The Pratt Museum Education Program offers life-long learners, educators, other community members and visitors a variety of creative and exciting opportunities to experience and learn about the natural history of the Kachemak Bay region.

Come visit your community museum, and begin exploring the people and place around you!

Education Program Information

Pratt Museum

Exploring our

3779 Bartlett Street

Homer, Alaska 99603-7579

place together...

Phone: 907 235-8635 Fax: 970 235-2764 Email: education@prattmuseum.org Web: www.prattmuseum.org

ThePrattMuseumEducationProgramWelcomesYou!

The Pratt Museum Education Program is a community centered program for people of all ages, encouraging lifelong learning and participation in the understanding and exploration of our place: the Kachemak Bay region of Alaska. In alignment with the Museum’s mission, the Education Program is dedicated to the process of education through explorations of the natural world and human experience, and seeks to inspire self reflection and dialogue among community members and visitors alike.

The Pratt Museum Education Program encourages and promotes:

  • Appropriate, engaging, and interactive education outreach;

  • Stewardship and sustainability of natural and cultural resources;

  • Respectfulness and openness in the learning process; and

  • Community involvement.

Education Program Offerings

Recognizing that we are all an active and integral part of the environment, we offer you education programs which blend natural history learning experiences with an opportunity to recognize your own place in the natural world. Some of the ways in which we accomplish this include:

  • Exhibit-based and Special Topic tours for all ages

  • Exhibit-based Special Explorations

  • WHIZ Kids After School Program

  • Pratt Pods Summer Program

  • Internships and OJT opportunities

  • Special Speakers Series

  • Volunteer Docent Training

  • Education Resource Materials and Traveling Kits

  • Research Library and Collections

  • Museum Store

  • And more! Contact us for dates and times.

Our Exhibit-based Tours and Topics

A diversity of tour topics and learning experiences are awaiting you and your students at the Pratt!

When planning your tour of the Museum, choose from an exciting list of exhibit-based subjects including:

  • Marine life

  • Forest ecology

  • Alaska Native plants

  • Stewardship

  • Geology of Kachemak Bay

  • Peoples of Kachemak Bay

  • Mammals of our region

  • Fish and Fishing

  • Winter adaptations

  • Early Homer history/Homesteading

  • Special Exhibits Gallery

  • Or, build your own natural history focus!

To request a tour, please visit our website www.prattmuseum.org and download our Visit Request Form. Complete and return your form by fax, email or mail. We will contact you to discuss your needs and interests once we receive your request .

We look forward to your visit!

Pratt Museum

3779 Bartlett Street Homer, Alaska 99603-7579

Phone: 907 235-8635 Fax: 970 235-2764 Email: education@prattmuseum.org Web: www.prattmuseum.org