Scouts

The Strong museum offers a variety of exciting backpack experiences perfect for Girl Scout, Cub Scout, and Boy Scout troops wishing to fulfill badge requirements at their own pace any day of the week.

Backpacks include all materials necessary for leaders to guide scouts through specific badge requirements. Times listed for each backpack experience are the minimum recommended to complete badge requirements. Badges are not included. Scouts and their chaperons may explore the museum before or after their project.

We are not accepting scout backpack reservations for July and August 2023 as we refresh the program for the fall.

Scout Group Pricing

Scout groups of ten or more: $17 per scout. Scout groups fewer than ten: $19 per scout.
Scout activity backpacks can be rented for $30. Each backpack can accommodate 10 scouts.
One free admission for an adult chaperone is included for every five paid scouts when booked as a group of ten or more. Additional chaperones, who are not members, pay full general admission. Adult chaperones are not required for scouts ages 16 to 18.
Full non-refundable payment is due at time of booking. Bookings must be made at least two weeks in advance. No bookings during school break weeks or on holidays.

Boy scout building wall in Berenstain bears exhibit

Boy Scout Backpack Programs

Tiger

Tiger-iffic! Elective Adventure

Visit the eGameRevolution and Game Time! exhibits to play a variety of classic and modern individual- and multi-player games. With your den, work together on a problem-solving team challenge, and change the rules of a game you know. Minimum 2 hours recommended.

Wolf

Code of the Wolf Elective Adventure

Explore the American Comic Book Heroes: The Battle of Good vs. Evil exhibit to design a math game. Visit aquarium tanks to search for shapes in nature. Use balls and LEGO bricks in graphing exercises, and send a message using the pig pen code. Minimum 2.5 hours recommended.

Bear

Roaring Laughter Elective Adventure

Visit Reading Adventureland, act out run-on skits, and practice tongue twisters. Make a joke book, write a silly short story, and try to make each other laugh with funny faces and gestures. Minimum 2.5 hours recommended.

Webelos

Art Explosion Elective Adventure

Examine works of art throughout museum exhibits, including paintings, tapestries, photographs, and more. Create self-portraits, origami, air-dried clay projects, and a portfolio box. Minimum 3 hours recommended.

Game Design Elective Adventure

Explore the Game Time! exhibit to learn about game design. Once inspired, create your own board or card game and teach it to your den. Minimum 3 hours recommended.

Scouts BSA

Game Design

Complete initial Game Design merit badge requirements at the museum. Visit the eGameRevolution and Game Time! exhibits and learn about different game mediums, from board games to electronic games. Review game designer journals, examine artifacts from museum collections, and try your hand at modern and classic games. Learn gaming terminology and analyze favorite games. Receive a game design journal for use in completing the remaining badge requirements at home. Minimum 3 hours recommended.

Girl Scout Backpack Programs

Programs listed below meet new GSUSA program requirements found in GSUSA publications.

Daisy

Lupe’s Story (Honest and Fair Petal)

Practice being honest and fair through role play! Listen to Lupe’s story and then pretend to be Lupe and her friends. Try on costumes and act out Lupe’s story on the Imagination Destination stage. Do as the Flower Friends do by taking turns choosing which museum exhibits to explore as a group. Minimum 2 hours recommended.

Rosie’s Story (Make the World a Better Place)

Discover how to make the world a better place through role-play! Listen to Rosie’s story and then pretend to be Rosie and her friends. Try on costumes and act out Rosie’s story in the Tent of a Thousand Tales. Brainstorm ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle at home. Minimum 2 hours recommended.

Daisy Board Game Design Challenge
Explore museum exhibits like Game Time! to learn about game design. Once inspired, design a spinner and create your own board game, then teach it to your troop. Minimum 3 hours recommended.

Brownie

Senses Badge

Earn the Senses badge, one of the skill-building badges associated with the WOW! Wonders of Water journey. Scouts use hearing, sight, smell, and touch to learn about the world around them. Search for tiny objects in dollhouses from the museum’s renowned collections, listen to and identify sounds, follow someone using only the sense of smell, use a magnifying glass to examine taste buds, and more. Minimum 2.5 hours recommended.

Letterboxer Badge

Earn the Letterboxer badge, one of the skill-building badges associated with the A World of Girls journey. Find out what letterboxing is and practice puzzle-solving skills in museum exhibits. Make a personalized stamp to take home. Troops make a letterbox together and decide where to hide it in their neighborhood. Minimum 2.5 hours recommended.

Junior

Detective Badge

Earn the Detective badge, one of the skill-building badges associated with the Get Moving! journey. Scouts practice their powers of observation, communicate in code, fingerprint for fun, and explore the Mystery Mansion section of the Reading Adventureland exhibit. Minimum 3 hours recommended.

Drawing Badge

Earn the Drawing badge, a Junior Legacy badge. Visit museum exhibits to gather inspiration for art. Experiment with materials, shading, and perspective. Create a portfolio to carry home art pieces. Minimum 3 hours recommended.

Cadette

Comic Artist Badge

Earn the Cadette Legacy’s Comic Artist badge. Delve into the world of comic books by exploring the American Comic Book Heroes exhibit. Participate in a series of creative exercises including story outlining, and discover drawing techniques such as rough sketches, showing motion, and adding speech bubbles to create one-of-a-kind comics. Minimum 3 hours recommended.

Book Artist Badge

Earn the Book Artist badge, one of the skill-building badges associated with the Breathe journey. Learn bookbinding terminology and examine books in the museum’s library and archives. Take an old book apart to discover how it was made. Create journals from craft supplies. Minimum 3 hours recommended.

Senior

Collage Artist Badge

Earn the Collage badge, a Senior Legacy badge. Learn about collage artists from other cultures. Try creating a cubomania collage, using color as a theme, making a 3D piece, and crafting a self-portrait collage. Minimum 3 hours recommended.

How to Make a Group Reservation

Complete the form below. We will contact you within two business days with any questions/conflicts and to collect payment
Reservations must be made at least two weeks in advance of your visit. Date and capacity restrictions may apply.

Scout Visit Request Form

Name(Required)

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Troup/Pack #(Required)

Visit Information

Preferred date of visit(Required)

Arrival time(Required)

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Backpack Selection

Girl Scout Backpack ($30 each)

Second Girl Scout Backpack ($30 each)

Boy Scout Backpack ($30 each)

Second Boy Scout Backpack ($30 each)

Backpacks

# of backpacks reserved

Price: $30.00

Tickets Selection

Scout Tickets (for quantities of 10 or more)

Price: $17.00

Scout Tickets (for quantities fewer than 10)

Price: $19.00

Adult Tickets (Required)

For groups of ten or more scouts, one adult ticket for every five scout tickets will be $0. We will adjust the price when we create your order.

Price: $19.00

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