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Pre-college curriculum-structured tours
The museum’s education department can customize interactive tours around various disciplines, themes, issues, and ideas expressed in a class curriculum, such as science, math, history, geography, animals, storytelling, art fundamentals, or world religions to name a few. Some of the tours and programs we have provided for various schools, pre-school through high school, include:
Supervised treasure hunts through the collection
Drawing and/or writing in the galleries
Tours of historical buildings on campus
Tours of the famous Thomas Hart Benton murals
Tours of Indiana art on campus
Foreign language tours
Curriculum- structured tours are available for every grade. Here are just a few tour suggestions currently being offered:
Preschool and Kindergarten Storytelling Tour Explore myths and stories from around the world through art.
Grade 1- Exploring and Discovering the Art Museum
Through age-appropriate gallery games and guided treasure hunts, first graders will explore basic shapes, colors, patterns, and forms.
Grade 3 – Celebrating our Communities Program Investigate examples of art that illustrate the concepts of community and what it means to be a responsible citizen.
Grade 5 – Teaching American History through Art and Photographs
Selections from the IUAM’s Morton C. Bradley Collection of American Painting
Grades 7 –8 – Making Sense of the World: What Do I See and Think?
Tours for young teens that encourage dialogue about our place in the global community
Grades 9-12 – Thematic Gallery Sessions
Issues of Cultural Diversity, Gender, World Religions, and Social Issues
Specialized School Programs
Second Grade Program
Since 1982 the museum has partnered with the Monroe County Community Schools to provide a tour program for all second grade classes system-wide. This program serves to introduce second graders to the world of art and the many functions of a museum. The objectives, content, and methods are the result of an on-going dialogue among classroom and art teachers, art education professors and students, museum educators and docents, second graders, and the state standards for second-grade art programs. Bus transportation for this program is made possible through the generosity of a museum donor.
Fourth Grade Program
The museum, in cooperation with the IU Auditorium, offers a program for all area fourth grade classes to enhance their studies of state history by exploring the “Indiana” murals by Thomas Hart Benton. Pre- and post-visit materials accompany this local program and can be accessed through the website. Bus transportation for this program is made possible through the generosity of a museum donor.
Fifth and Sixth Grade Program
The museum provides upper elementary classes from across the state with customized programs and tours of the art from various world cultures. Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, Japan, Europe, Africa, and Oceania are just a few of the world areas that have been the focus of these specialized programs. Pre- and post-visit materials are available for loan to area educators within a seven-county region of south-central Indiana.
We enjoy a challenge! There are dozens of tours and programs on file!
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