Wayland’s history is a classroom resource — and we’ll bring it to you.

The Wayland Museum & Historical Society offers programs for K–12 classes, either at the Grout-Heard House (c. 1742) or in your school. Everything we do connects to real objects, real documents, and real Wayland stories.

Visit the Museum
Bring your class to 12 Cochituate Road for a guided visit inside a 1742 timber-frame house. Students handle objects from the permanent collection, work with primary sources, and connect what they’re studying to the town they live in. Visits are tailored to your grade level and unit — nothing is off-the-shelf.
Typically 60–90 minutes. 

Museum in a Box
We come to you. A Museum in a Box visit brings real and reproduction objects, primary sources, and discussion prompts directly to your classroom. No bus, no permission slips, no logistics. Same hands-on approach, same curriculum connection — at your school, on your schedule.
Typically 45–60 minutes. Available by arrangement.

School Programs

• WPS Third Grade Program – Wayland April 19, 1775
• Wayland High School History Project
  Includes seven volumes of project-based learning completed from 2001-2015 in Kevin Delaney’s US History classes. Each edition took two years to complete and constitutes what we hope is a rich local history archive of oral history, original research, and fascinating storytelling that show how national trends and developments played out in our town and region. Learn more here.
• Wayland High School Awards
• North Cemetery
• The Village Evolves
• Wayland and the Civil War
  Written by the late Nancy Ashkar in conjunction with the Wayland Historical Society, this program was used for many years by Wayland fifth graders. It has been adapted by Bobby Robinson of the Massachusetts Study Project as a model for use by other schools planning a study of the Civil War from the perspective of their own community.
• Civil War Bus Tour, with reference to Wayland Town Character

The Revolution: Our Town on April 19, 1775
Each May, Wayland’’s third grade classes participate in the Revolution Program at the Grout-Heard House Museum and at the North Cemetery which features three parts:

• “Home and Family Life” in Wayland, shortly before and during the early days of the American Revolution.
• “The Path to Revolution” recounts the political conditions before the Revolution, their effects on Wayland, and the events leading to armed rebellion. The question, “How do we know what really happened?” will be answered through diaries, letters, newspapers, and artifacts.
• At the North Cemetery the focus will be finding the gravesites of Wayland’s Revolutionary War heroes, learning  about their lives in what was then Sudbury.