Programs & Events

2025 Spring Season of Tour Tuesdays

Welcome to the spring season of Tour Tuesdays! The Tour Tuesdays Program We invite members and visitors of the Upper Valley community to attend interactive tours, lab visits and other activities that showcase Dartmouth's incredible research, history, collections, and unique features. Free and open to all - staff, students, community members and visitors (minors must be accompanied by an adult). Advanced registration will be required for each tour guest as tour group sizes are limited.

Register HERE

2025 Spring Schedule

Baker Tower Tour: Go to the top of Baker Tower for the best view in town! Please note: we will ride an elevator and climb up a few flights of stairs, including two steep "ladder-like" stairs. Tours will only run in clear weather.

 

April 22 11:30am

April 22 12:00pm

May 6 11:30am 

May 6 12:00pm

 

Dartmouth Cemetery Tour: Guided tour of the 'Historic Dartmouth Cemetery', including fascinating stories from the past and information on current conservation efforts. 

This tour takes place outside; you will be required to walk up and down a small hill.

 

May 3 10:00am

May 17 10:00am

 

DREAM Studio Tour: The DREAM Studio works with Dartmouth faculty and students to research, develop, and release media across a variety of emerging platforms. We specialize in virtual and augmented reality but support other forms of digital arts and entertainment as well, including podcasts, videos, video games, and platform development. As part of the Magnuson Center, we help develop financially sustainable creative practices and fundraising skills alongside providing mentoring on the conceptual, technical, and aesthetic dimensions of digital media production. 

Please note this tour takes place down a flight of stairs. 

 

4/22 11:00am

5/20 11:00am

 

Earth Day tour of the Irving Institute for Energy and Society: Come explore the Arthur L. Irving Institute, which is home to the Dartmouth Sustainability Office; the Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability, and Innovation; the Dartmouth Climate Modeling’s and Impacts Group; several Thayer School of Engineering faculty; and of course, the Irving Institute for Energy and Society. The building won the 2024 Building of the Year award from the New Hampshire Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and has been certified as a LEED Platinum building–USGBC’s highest certification level. We will begin with a tour of the building and conclude with discussions about the Irving Institute’s priorities.

 

4/22 11:00am

 

Paleoanthropology Lab Tour: Explore the 7 million year history of the human lineage in Dartmouth College's Paleoanthropology fossil lab which features hundreds of fossil replicas of our human ancestors and extinct relatives.

 

5/21 7:00pm

Past Events

  • 53 Commons tour and lunch: Guided tour of the incredible variety of food offerings at "Foco", including lunch!
  • Webster Cottage: Tour the one and a half story farmhouse built in 1780 for the daughter of Dartmouth's founder Eleazar Wheelock.
  • Sacred spaces: Led by the Rev. Nancy A.G. Vogele, '85, the Chaplain and Director of the Tucker Center for Spiritual and Ethical Living,  we will visit the many religious sites around campus.
  • Data Experiences and Visualizations Studio: The DEV Studio: The DEV Studio works with faculty and students on research using augmented and virtual reality, as well as a few related areas where the lines between digital and physical systems get blurry. Come explore!
  • Campus Sustainability and Energy Decarbonization Walking Tour.  Come join Director of Sustainability, Rosi Kerr '97, for a casual Campus Sustainability and Energy Decarbonization Walking Tour! Hear about Dartmouth's new climate goals and the plans to reduce operational campus carbon emissions to zero by 2050, with real time updates, peeks at campus construction and room for your questions! Who knows, we might even end with popsicles!
  • Genomics: Shannon Soucy and Liz Sergison will lead a discussion on the history of genomics, a tour of the genomics lab to see equipment used to sequence human and mouse genomes followed by lunch and a conversation on the analysis (bioinformatics) of the data/results from the various equipment.
  • Rauner Special Collections Library: Join Morgan Swan, Special Collections Librarian for Teaching and Scholarly Engagement, in an exploration  of treasures from the college's rare books, manuscripts, and archival collections.
  • Heating Plant/Steam Tunnels: Guided tour of the heating plant, followed by a walk under the Green through the steam tunnels.
  • Human anatomy lab: with James Reed, director of the Geisel School of Medicine's anatomy lab and Anatomical Gifts Program.
  • Demystifying Greek Life at Dartmouth: Folks often hear and talk about Greek Life in a negative way. Dartmouth's Greek Life community has, and continues to, contribute to the campus and the community beyond the campus, in positive ways. This tour focuses on the varying reasons that students join Greek Letter Organizations and Student Societies, what they gain from these spaces and places, and why this is such an integral part of the Dartmouth experience.
  • Environmental DNA Lab: Learn how researchers in Bala Chaudhary's Lab analyze global biodiversity patterns using environmental DNA barcoding from soils, dust, roots, fur, and even poop.
  • The Rassias Method® at Dartmouth, in the Upper Valley, and beyond; an interactive presentation in Language and Culture: We will cover the beginnings of the Rassias Method (Peace Corps), Language instruction at Dartmouth through the years, and what Dartmouth and Rassias are doing globally and locally. Please be prepared to speak a few words (or even sentences) in French, Spanish, and/ or Modern Greek.
  • Politics 101 at Rockefeller Center with Dartmouth Civics: We would like to welcome the community to learn about Rocky's mission and programs, while highlighting the resources available to the community through Dartmouth Civics.
  • The Book Conservation Lab in Baker-Berry Library: The conservation lab is an integral but often hidden part of the Collection Management & Preservation Department with Dartmouth Libraries.

New Tours

Make sure to sign up for our email list to be notified when new tours have been added. Register for email notifications here.

Hosting a Tour

Are you a Dartmouth employee interested in hosting a tour this season or in the future? Or would you like to learn more about the process? Contact us at Community.Engagement@dartmouth.edu

Contact Information

For more information about Tour Tuesdays please feel free to reach out to us at Community.Engagement@dartmouth.edu