Green-Wood is a permanent residence for more than 5,000 Civil War soldiers and tens of thousands more who experienced the war as civilians, nurses, abolitionists, and more. Travel on our historic trolley to some of their gravesites. Learn how the Civil War was a catalyst for change in New York and consider the roles that Green-Wood’s permanent residents played in this pivotal era.

Starting Location: Main Entrance

Green-Wood's landscape preserves some of the original topography of Brooklyn as it looked 18,000 when the Wisconsin Glacier hit its terminal moraine across the middle of the cemetery and began to recede. In this program, students learn to spot signs of the glacier's spread and how it affected the land as they stand atop the highest natural point in Brooklyn, walk the moraine's border, and find boulders the glacier pushed across Green-Wood's grounds. As they explore, students begin to make connections between natural climate change thousands of years ago and human-caused climate change today.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Ride our historic trolley to explore the lives and legacies of people who changed the world. Visit the monuments of some of the visionaries interred at Green-Wood and discover their impact on American social and political movements, technology, and culture.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Ride our historic trolley to explore the lives and legacies of women who both defied and embodied the times in which they lived: suffragists, spiritualists, actresses, authors, activists, and more. Participants will visit multiple monuments to discover how these women made their mark- and consider how they are memorialized today.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking. Ride our historic trolley to explore the lives and legacies of women who both defied and embodied the times in which they lived: suffragists, spiritualists, actresses, authors, activists, and more. Participants will visit multiple monuments to discover how these women made their mark- and consider how they are memorialized today.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Ride our historic trolley to visit the monuments of immigrants who left a mark on their new home as artists, entrepreneurs, and community-builders. Participants will explore the history of immigration to New York while making past-present connections through topics such as food, holidays, language, and more.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Green-Wood is a permanent residence for more than 5,000 Civil War soldiers and tens of thousands more who experienced the war as civilians, nurses, abolitionists, and more. Travel on our historic trolley to some of their gravesites. Learn how the Civil War was a catalyst for change in New York and consider the roles that Green-Wood’s permanent residents played in this pivotal era.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

How do we remember the American Revolution today? What was it like for those who lived through it? Ride our historic trolley to explore the American Revolution through the lives and legacies of Green-Wood’s permanent residents. Students will visit a 1776 battlefield inside of Green-Wood, including the statue Minerva and the Altar to Liberty, before traveling throughout the cemetery to the gravesites of revolutionaries from this era.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Ride our historic trolley to visit the monuments of both famous and unknown historical figures who identified (or might identify today) as part of the LGBTQ community. Explore their fascinating stories, see how they are memorialized at Green-Wood, and consider how gender expression and sexuality impacted their lives and legacies.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

In this program, students visit the monuments of both famous and unknown historical figures who identified (or might identify today) as part of the LGBTQ community. Explore their fascinating stories, see how they are memorialized at Green-Wood, and consider how gender expression and sexuality impacted their lives and legacies.

Starting Location: Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance

As New-York’s first premier cemetery, Green-Wood is the permanent home to thousands of people who changed the world over the past four centuries. In this program, students will visit the monuments of some of the visionaries interred here and discover their impact on American social and political movements, technology, and culture. They will compare these changemakers’ achievements in life to how they are memorialized in death.

Starting Location: Main Entrance or Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Explore the lives and legacies of women interred at Green-Wood who both defied and embodied the times in which they lived: suffragists, spiritualists, artists, actors, authors, activists, and more. In this program, students will visit multiple monuments to discover how these women made their mark- and consider how they are memorialized today.

Starting Location: Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance.

In this program, students visit the monuments of immigrants interred at Green-Wood who left a mark on their new home as artists, entrepreneurs, and community-builders. Participants will explore the history of immigration to New York while making past-present connections through topics such as food, holidays, language, and more.

Starting Location: Main Entrance

Ride our historic trolley to discover the lives and work of Black New Yorkers who are interred at Green-Wood: doctors, artists, journalists, activists, and more. While visiting their monuments, students consider: What do their lives and experiences tell us about the times in which they lived? How are they memorialized?

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

In this program, students discover the lives and work of Black New Yorkers who are interred at Green-Wood: doctors, artists, journalists, activists, and more. While visiting their monuments, students consider: What do their lives and experiences tell us about the times in which they lived? How are they memorialized?

Starting Location: Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance.

How should we memorialize a battle we lost in a war that we won? In this program, students march to the top of Battle Hill, the highest natural point in Brooklyn and the site of one of the first battles of the American Revolution, fought in 1776. When they reach the top, students study the monument Minerva and the Altar to Liberty and explore how the Battle of Brooklyn is remembered today.

Starting Location: Main Entrance or Prospect Park West Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

The cemetery is a beautiful place for the youngest of students to observe the natural cycles of life, death, and rebirth that continue each year. Each program will follow a broad, seasonal theme allowing students to explore a rotating selection of the best trees, plants, and animals based on current phenology and weather.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

As the highest-accredited arboretum in New York City, Green-Wood is the perfect place for young learners to explore the features of trees and how they change seasonally. In this program, students will use their senses to observe trees and record their findings during hands-on activities This interactive tour also features drawing and collecting natural materials found at Green-Wood.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance

As the highest-accredited arboretum in New York City, Green-Wood is the perfect place for young learners to explore the features of trees and how they change seasonally. In this program, students will use their senses to observe trees and record their findings during hands-on activities. This interactive tour also features drawing and collecting natural materials found at Green-Wood.

Starting Location: Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Learn about many types of birds that live at Green-Wood by observing them in their natural habitat! Students will search for birds among the trees, in the meadows, trees, or swimming in a ponds, all while learning important skills for urban birding.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, or Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Learn about many types of birds that live at Green-Wood by observing them in their natural habitat! Students will search for birds among the trees, in the meadows, trees, or swimming in a ponds, all while learning important skills for urban birding.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Green-Wood is an urban grassland and arboretum, as well as a burial ground. In this program, students use Green-Wood as a living laboratory to study the relationship between urban green spaces and the city we live in. Includes a seasonal activity.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

In this program, students explore both introduced and endemic species at Green-Wood and discuss their impact on pollinators. Is it always detrimental to introduce new species to the environment? What is the value in supporting and reintroducing endemic species? How does the Horticulture team maintain and bolster environmental health and species biodiversity in a space designed for human use?

Only available May -October

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Green-Wood is an active cemetery and a vibrant green space. In this program, students will learn about the bugs that thrive here thanks to the many flowering plants that cover the cemetery, and how people can steward their survival even in a city. Includes a nature walk and seasonal activity

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Green-Wood is an active cemetery and a vibrant green space. In this program, students will learn about the bugs that thrive here thanks to the many flowering plants that cover the cemetery, and how people can steward their survival even in a city. Includes a nature walk and seasonal activity

Only available May -October

Starting Location: Main Entrance

Green-Wood is an urban grassland and arboretum, as well as a burial ground. In this program, students use Green-Wood as a living laboratory to study the relationship between urban green spaces and the city we live in. Includes a seasonal activity.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, or Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

In this program, students explore both introduced and endemic species at Green-Wood and discuss their impact on pollinators. Is it always detrimental to introduce new species to the environment? What is the value in supporting and reintroducing endemic species? How does the Horticulture team maintain and bolster environmental health and species biodiversity in a space designed for human use?

Only available May -October

Starting Location: Main Entrance

Have you ever looked at a bird and wondered what it’s doing? Learn about common types of bird behaviors by observing them at Green-Wood! Students will search for birds in the grass, trees, and ponds, and even on grave monuments to collect data on the different ways birds communicate and how they have adapted to survive.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Have you ever looked at a bird and wondered what it’s doing? Learn about common types of bird behaviors by observing them at Green-Wood! Students will search for birds in the grass, trees, and ponds, and even on grave monuments to collect data on the different ways birds communicate and how they have adapted to survive.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, or Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

The cemetery is a beautiful place for the youngest of students to observe the natural cycles of life, death, and rebirth that continue each year. Each program will follow a broad, seasonal theme allowing students to explore a rotating selection of the best trees, plants, and animals based on current phenology and weather.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, or Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Explore the colors, shapes, composition and more in the iconic stained glass windows that adorn Green-Wood's stately mausoleums, chapel and other buildings. Designed by masters of the art form, including Louis Comfort Tiffany, Otto Heinigke, and Helen Maitland Armstrong, this program sheds new light on why and how stained glass is such an important aspect of funerary art.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

In this program, students become cemetery sleuths. They learn about how anchors aren’t just for sailors, identifying those who belonged to special societies, and other secrets carved in stone. Participants will explore the cemetery and search for symbols on a scavenger hunt, before considering what symbols are important to them.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, or Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, . Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

As a city of the dead, Green-Wood is full of stunning structures built to show off architects’ skills, communicate wealth, power, and identity, and most importantly, be places to reside.... forever. In this program, students study and sketch masterpieces of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architecture at Green-Wood while learning to identify common architectural styles that appear not only in Green-Wood, but all over their city.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, or Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

Ride our historic trolley to discover how cemeteries are like miniature cities, full of unique architectural wonders. Participants will study and sketch masterpieces of nineteenth- and early- twentieth-century architecture at Green-Wood. Through our wide array of structures, students will learn to identify popular styles from these eras, and put their newly-gained skills to the test during a scavenger hunt!

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

In this program, students visit the cemetery’s most unique, elaborate, and expressive memorials to learn how people’s lives are celebrated through public art. See larger than life firemen, ships and rope carved in stone, and even a giant baseball. Students will practice close-looking and storytelling, while considering how we can publicly honor community heroes.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

In this program, students become cemetery sleuths. They learn about how anchors aren’t just for sailors, identifying those who belonged to special societies, and other secrets carved in stone. Participants will explore the cemetery and search for symbols on a scavenger hunt, before considering what symbols are important to them.

Starting Location: Main Entrance, Prospect Park West Entrance, Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance, or 34th Street Entrance. Please indicate your preferred starting location at the time of booking.

If you are interested in a program theme not listed above, or wish to customize any of the above programs, Green-Wood’s director of education, Rachel Walman, would be happy to work with you! Please contact education@green-wood.com. Custom program pricing will be determined based on length and content of the program.

If you are interested in a program theme not listed above, or wish to customize any of the above programs, Green-Wood’s director of education, Rachel Walman, would be happy to work with you! Please contact education@green-wood.com. Custom program pricing will be determined based on length and content of the program.