Our free weekend “road trips” to some of the region’s most historic places provide hands-on learning opportunities for inquisitive Washington College students. Road trips take students behind-the-scenes at national museums, put them in front row seats to experience professional theater, and lead them through city streets and down dusty country lanes exploring our nation’s past.

 

Check out our upcoming trips, and join us on the road.

Library of Congress Research Road Trips Friday, February 26 Wednesday, March 23 Friday, April 29 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Travel with the Starr Center and Miller Library this semester to explore the greatest library in the world, the Library of Congress. You’ll get a Reader Identification Card and learn how to use the library’s research centers and reading rooms. Note: Lunch will be provided; students from all departments/majors who are currently working on research are encouraged to attend. Register here.

Behind-the-Scenes at Baltimore’s Libraries and Museums Friday, March 4 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

The Starr Center and Miller Library invite you to join us as we visit three world-renowned archival and museum collections in Baltimore. At the George Peabody Library we’ll meet with Curator Paul Espinosa where we’ll look at their rare book collection. Inside the Enoch Pratt Free Library we’ll meet Michael Johnson, the manager of special collections, to look at the archival collection and an overview of their renovation plans. And, we’ll visit The Walters Art Museum where we’ll meet with Elisabetta Polidori, Associate Conservator of Paper and Book Materials, in their conservation lab. Note: Funds toward lunch will be provided; students from all departments/majors are encouraged to attend. Register here. First come, first served.

Each spring, we partner with the Global Education Office to explore the colonial era at Historic Jamestowne and Colonial Williamsburg. Stay tuned for more details for spring 2016.