• http://www.themusicmansquare.org/index.htm - "76 Trombones led the big parade,"...and you can follow the history of Meredith Wilson and times goneby!  Tour his boyhood home and the town he immortalized as "River City" in his famous musical The Music Man.  Wonderful website. 
• http://www.stockmanhouse.org - for families, interested in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (probably more interesting to older children with interest in art/architecture.
• http://www.macniderart.org  - local art museum with the ORIGINAL puppets made by Bill Baird used in The Sound of Music! ("High on a hill with a lonely goatherd...lei-dee-yodel-ay-dee-yodel-ay-hee-hoo!")
• http://www.limecreeknature.org/index.html - bring a picnic lunch,  and enjoy the beauty of this conservation area, nice trails for bikes, horses, walking.  Inside the nature center building there are mounted animals, live animals, hands-on materials, an auditorium, various natural resource displays.   

• http://www.fossilcenter.com/ - Go on a FREE dig for fossils and take a few home as souvenirs!  (Strong evolutionary information, but a great place to go dig fossils, there are so many!)  Can easily spend half a day here! 

• Their home page is a good place to start:  http://www.groutmuseumdistrict.org
• Plan your family's visit using their group tour manual:  http://www.groutmuseumdistrict.org/GroupTour/GTMpg1.html 
•  Visit this page for some easy at home hands on activities:  http://www.groutmuseumdistrict.org/who_we/imaginarium.html  
• Need to coordinate a HomeSchool Field Trip?  Choose from their menu of options here:  http://www.groutmuseumdistrict.org/Teacher's%20Guide/page1.html