Cookies
Children will colect their brown bag lunches and picnic with their
group across from the Lighthouse at Red Cox Park. Prepayment is required,
as well as a lunch count (with sandwich choices) at least one week in advance
of the tour date.
Lighthouse & Museum Tours
Our Lighthouse & Museum Tour features a tower climb and a guided
tour of the museum; please allow 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes
for the tour. Please allow 1 hour and 30 minutes for a Specialty Tour.
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Specialty Tours
Why Do We Have Lighthouses?
Be a crewmember on a Tall Ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean and find
out how the St. Augustine Lighthouse can help you get safely to port.
Walk where the lighthouse keepers walked up the tower and into the
woods.
Students will rotate between three stations:
Station One: Why Do We have lighthouses?
Join Chris Kastle, our Director of Education, an internationally
acclaimed performer, for a highly participatory presentation of songs
and stories that look into our maritime heritage and the part that]
lighthouses play.
Station Two: Lighthouses and the Land
A hands-on experiential nature walk in the maritime hammock and
heritage garden with our Staff Naturalist, Gail Compton, well-known
newspaper columnist and lecturer.
Station Three: The Lighthouse
Learn about the history of the St. Augustine Lighthouse with one of
our fine docents and then climb the 219 stairs to the observation deck.
Look out to sea and see the lay of the land the way the lighthouse
keepers did.
Sea, Sail and Service
St. Augustine is the country's oldest port city. Learn about what it
was like to be a sailor or student and serve the United States during
the American Revolution. Hear the words and the stories and the music.
Station One: Sea, Sail and Service
Learn the language of the sea. Do a word search using maritime
vocabulary that will be part of the other three stations.
Station Two: Musical Commands
A demonstration of how musical instruments have been used to issue
commands on board ship with Chris Clark, reenacter and fire fighter,
and also Brendan Burke, musician, tall ship sailor, and archeologist
in our LAMP Program.
Station Three: First Flags
Students will use appropriate colors to complete line drawings of our
earliest maritime service flags, analyze the design of the flags, and
make written comments about the designs.
Station Four: Children of the American Revolution
Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution will present
stories, several of them maritime in nature, about their ancestors when
their ancestors were children during that time.
Shipwreck Discovery
Experience the excitement of maritime history as it relates to the St.
Augustine Lighthouse including aspects of underwater archeology.
Station One: Down Below the Waves
A participatory presentation of songs and stories that look into our
maritime heritage especially as it relates to underwater archeology with
Chris Kastle our Director of Education, an internationally acclaimed
performer.
Station Two: Basics of Underwater Archeology
A member of our outstanding Lighthouse Archeological Maritime Program
here at the museum, will discuss and demonstrate the use of a variety of
equipment used by underwater archeologists as well as the requirements
to be an underwater archeologist and will also talk about current LAMP
projects.
Station Three: The Lighthouse
Students will learn about the historic challenges of navigating the
St. Augustine Coast with one of our docents and be able to see the
coastline as it now appears when they climb the tower.
Guided Scout Patch Program
Join a museum docent for a guided program for all levels of Girl Scouts
and Boy Scouts. Scouts can visit with their group or with parents and
complete a fun and educational series of activities to earn the St.
Augustine Lighthouse Patch. For groups of 20 or more.
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Educational Materials
Pre and post tour educational materials are available by e-mail upon
request. Contact the Education Department at 904-829-0745 x 208, 223 or
201 or ckastle@staugustinelighthouse.com
Elderhostel Programs
Group tours are available.
Museum Rules
- No running is allowed anywhere on the site or in any buildings.
- No food, candy, beverages, or gum is allowed on the historic site. An
exception will be made for plastic bottled water with a cap.
- Groups - students and chaperones - must remain together while on site.
- Children must be 44 inches tall to climb the tower.
- Due to safety concerns, 1 chaperone for every 6 students under the age
of 12 is required to climb.
- Group size is limited to a maximum of 35 people climbing the tower at one time.
- Please use indoor voices and respect the other visitors on the site.
- Please do not touch objects in the museum and tower unless otherwise instructed.
- Please do not take flash photography. Excessive light damages historical objects.
- Buses may park along the side of the road in front of the flagpole or across the
street in the parking lot. All buses in the parking lot must turn off their motors.
There is no parking in the lot across the road on weekends or holidays.
- During the tour, please use cell phones for photographic purposes only.
