Big-ticket Vermont museums and attractions with homeschool discount days — typically 30–50% off for kids, sometimes free.
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Vermont's marquee science and history museums fold homeschoolers into their best rates. In Burlington, the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain books field trips at $4 a student — roughly a fifth of the gate — and the Shelburne Museum, one of the country's great Americana collections, charges homeschool visitors just $5 a student against a $27.50 adult ticket. In Montpelier, the Vermont History Museum waives admission for homeschool groups entirely.
Out in the countryside, hands-on programs do the rest. The Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee runs $13.50 field trips around its live raptors and forest canopy walk; the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury holds $10 Homeschool Tuesdays with planetarium time; and Woodstock's Billings Farm runs morning Discovery Days that turn a Rockefeller-era dairy into a living classroom for curiosity-led learners.
Published price on the venue's own homeschool page — most under $20 per child.
Burlington's lakefront science center and aquarium on Lake Champlain — hands-on exhibits, Lake Champlain fish and reptiles, frogs and turtles, and a 3D theater. Homeschool and school groups book field trips at just $4 a student, a fraction of the gate price.
One of America's great art and Americana museums — 39 historic buildings across 45 acres in Shelburne, from quilts and folk art to an Impressionist gallery and a steamboat. Homeschool families get in for $5 a student against a $27.50 adult gate, with a free accompanying adult.
The Vermont Historical Society's museum in Montpelier and its award-winning 'Freedom and Unity' exhibit, where students explore an Abenaki wigwam, send a telegraph message, and step into a WWII-era living room. Homeschool groups visit free self-guided, or add a $3 hands-on history program.
The Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee pairs live raptor exhibits and a treetop Forest Canopy Walk with 47 acres of nature trails. Homeschool groups book field trips at $13.50 a student — under the gate price, with an optional educator-led lesson.
A gloriously old-fashioned 1891 natural-history museum and planetarium in St. Johnsbury. Its 'Homeschool Tuesdays' give grades K–8 an hour of educator-led STEM learning plus a self-guided naturalist's project and the run of the galleries — $10 a class, with a free adult.
A restored Rockefeller-era working Jersey dairy farm and museum in Woodstock. Its morning Discovery Days turn the farm into a hands-on classroom — themed stations of farm activities, movement, and play for curiosity-led learners ages 6–13, with a caregiver included.
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