A father holding his daughter watches the layout from a timber walkway.

A father holding his daughter watches the model railroad from a timber walkway.

Programs · For schools, families and the community

Learning Center

The approach

Every scene is a lesson.

How a bridge carries weight. How a tunnel gets through a mountain. How a town grows around its depot. The layout turns science, technology, engineering, art, math and history into things you can see.

Science

Technology

Engineering

Art

Math

History

Programs

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S.T.E.A.M. Classes

Modeling Workshops

Art Classes

K-12 Field Trips

Lectures, Seminars & Film

Community Days

Green Northern Pacific streamliner crossing a tall steel trestle on the layout.

A child building with toy bricks beside a toy train at a community event.

Families browsing train books and toys in the museum store.

Visitors in a gallery beside a tall glass wall of stored model trains.

Families on the museum’s timber upper deck overlooking a boxcar and the mountains.

Let's make learning fun.

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