Youth Groups | Pickering Museum Village

Looking for hands‑on adventure, exciting challenges, and unforgettable group experiences? Pickering Museum Village offers a wide range of bookable programs for youth groups, Guides, Scouts, and camps all year round. Led by experienced museum staff, each program blends fun, learning, teamwork, and creativity against the backdrop of the historic village.

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Operation Wildcraft

Ideal for ages 5–11

Put your outdoor know‑how to the test! This fast‑paced quest sends youth through a series of campcraft‑inspired stations, like building fire lays, filtering water, and decoding trail signs. With each challenge completed, groups unlock new clues guiding them toward the final destination.

It’s an exciting adventure that builds teamwork, leadership, and confidence while keeping kids active and engaged.

Highlights:

Outdoor challenges and hands‑on skill-building

Team-based problem solving

Ranch Hands Round Up

Ideal for ages 5–11

Saddle up for a rootin’-tootin’ day of ranch‑themed fun! Inspired by Pickering’s own agricultural history, this program gets kids movin’, laughin’, and learning as they rotate through six high-energy activity stations.

Think herding balloon cows, galloping in horse relays, tossing pigs into the pen, and more, perfect for camps and groups looking for action-packed adventure.

Highlights:

Six dynamic ranch‑themed stations

Builds coordination, teamwork, and confidence

High‑energy outdoor fun in the museum village

Beat the Clock! Escape Adventures

Ideal for ages 11+ and smaller groups

Step inside one of PMV’s historic buildings and race against time in these immersive escape room experiences. Each scenario sets the stage for heart‑pounding problem solving, teamwork, and creativity.

Choose between Escape the Cabin or Escape the Outbreak.

Highlights:

Immersive historic settings

Logic challenges, puzzles & teamwork

Perfect for youth groups, teens & adults

Mystery of the Haunted Hotel

Ideal for ages 8+ and smaller groups

Stranded at the museum with only one building open—the hotel—you and your group must unravel the truth behind its eerie reputation. Is it truly haunted, or is someone trying to scare visitors away?

Solve puzzles, follow clues, and uncover the mystery in this thrilling combo of escape room and detective adventure.

Highlights:

Immersive historic settings

Logic challenges, puzzles & teamwork

Laser Capture the Flag

Ideal for ages 8+

This isn’t your ordinary game of Capture the Flag; this one uses laser tag! Race through the museum village, strategize with your team, and try to outsmart your opponents in this high‑energy outdoor adventure.

Highlights:

Laser‑tag meets Capture the Flag

Fast, exciting, and action-packed

Outdoor fun across the museum grounds

Adventure Quests

Ideal for ages 10+

Choose your challenge and turn your group into investigators, problem-solvers, or mythbusters in these interactive, story‑driven experiences around the museum! Requires one mobile device per team and the GooseChase app.

Highlights:

Interactive story-driven quests

Encourages teamwork, creativity & critical thinking

Time Travellers at the Museum

Step into the time machine and prepare for a whirlwind adventure through history! Families must help a quirky inventor fix their malfunctioning time device by completing missions in different eras. Each challenge unlocks a new time period, from early settler days to the future of science. (Youngest investigator: ages 5 yrs and up)

Mystery of the Missing Rebellion Box

It’s the eve of the big exhibit launch and special guests have been invited to a sneak preview. When the lights come up on the key artifact – an irreplaceable rebellion box from 1837 – the case is empty! As your team moves around the museum village with your trusty detecting tool (cellphone), you are also racing against time to solve challenges, get clues, and gain team points. Can you solve the mystery in time? (Youngest Investigator: 13 yrs and up)

The Great Museum Race

It’s a race against time and rival teams! Complete trivia, physical challenges, and creative tasks to earn points and claim victory in the ultimate museum showdown. (Youngest Investigator: 13 yrs and up)

The Case of the Vanishing Vireo

(Available April to June only)

A rare botanical bird sculpture – the Vireo Verdant – has mysteriously vanished just before opening day. Was it stolen, misplaced, or sabotaged? Join Inspector Hawthorne in tracking down the missing Vireo Verdant. Examine clues in the gallery, decode plant-based riddles, and follow a trail of feathers into the museum gardens. Can you uncover the truth before the exhibit opens? (Youngest Investigator: 13 yrs and up)