School Tours. Fourth graders of Ridgefield tour the Keeler Tavern Museum as part of their academic program for the year. Arrangements are made by a Museum representative who contacts the teachers in the various Ridgefieled lower schools. Before the tours a guide from the Museum visits each classroom and tells the students something of what they will see when the visit. The children tour the building and guides tell them of the way children lived in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Private and parochial schools in the are often make arrangements for their students to tour the Museum. These students are usually in the third or fourth grades when their school program covers early American History.

There is a nominal charge per student and per chaperone for school tours. Please call the Keeler Tavern Museum for details at 203-438-5485. Expanded programs that include dance, games, home making and other skills of the era can be arranged at additional cost.

Kamp Keeler is held one week in mid July for youngsters entering 2nd to 5th grade. Children arrive Monday through Friday at 9:30 AM and stay until 1:30 PM. They enjoy 18th-century crafts, games and other activities. Drinks and snacks are included. And all children will get their own golf style shirt with the camp emblem. Children bring their own bag lunch.

Children really enjoy their Colonial Week at the Museum. Many of them return for another year. Some become junior counselors. It's a fun and rewarding learning experience for all.

Children's Room A special place for young children and their parents or grandparents to spend a few minutes having fun.l Young visitors will be able to play with toys of the 18th and early 19th centuries, dress up a bit, stir stew (wooden) in a pot with a wooden spoon over a faux fire as done in the past. They can read picture books of long ago and play old games that still challenge. When you visit the Keeler Tavern Museum bring your children and stop at the Childrens Room, sit back enjoy wathching them explore a world that is gone