Field Trips

Discovery Tour

In this interactive 60-minute tour, students will jump into life 100 years ago as they explore the Pittock family’s home, life, and legacy. Learn about what it was like to live in a home with the newest technology that the early 1900s had to offer and consider how much has changed—and how much has stayed the same—since then. In the tour, students will encounter aspects of day-to-day life in 1914 and consider what their lives might have been like in the past, how the past is similar to and different from their lives, and how the Pittock family helped to shape life in Portland today.   

$6 per student and chaperone; teachers and bus drivers visit free. Discounted rates are available for Title I schools.  

Pittock Stories: Life in the Early 1900s 

In this structured, self-guided, 90-minute tour, students will explore Pittock Mansion through the stories of the people that lived and worked in the home, on the grounds, and in Portland during the first years of the 1900s. Built in 1914 and following a boom in the movement of people, ideas, and products, Pittock Mansion and its early community represent much of the change that was happening in Oregon and the United States at the time. In this tour, students will learn about members of the Pittock family, individuals who worked as domestic laborers to support the Mansion, and how their stories help us understand the broader contexts of social, economic, and cultural development in which Pittock Mansion was created.   

This tour, alongside its pre- and post-visit activities, was created to align with specific 2nd– through 4th-grade ODE Core Standards but is adaptable to higher grade levels as well.  

$7 per student and chaperone; teachers and bus drivers visit free. Discounted rates are available for Title I schools. 

The City that Georgiana Built 

Meet Georgiana Pittock’s “best friend”, Josephine!  In this unique 45-minute school tour, students will get a “firsthand” account of Georgiana’s fascinating and influential life from one of our museum educators dressed in full period costume. This experience focuses on Georgiana’s life of social and political activism, from her work as a suffragette to her service to children and working women in the early years of Portland’s growth to her role as a founder of the Portland Rose Festival. Following a conversation with Josephine, students will explore Pittock Mansion house and grounds with a self-guided tour.   

 This tour is available for groups of up to 25 students.  

 $7 per student and chaperone; teachers and bus drivers visit free. Discounted rates are available for Title I schools.