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Select from one of our popular student-centered tours developed to support your school curriculum, or request a customized topic to enhance your teaching objectives. Enthusiastic and knowledgeable museum docents guide students to thoughtful observations as they lead lively discussions tailored to your students’ skill and grade level. Docents provide a cultural and historical context for chosen artworks that inspires students to make connections across the academic disciplines by thinking critically and using deductive reasoning skills.
You may choose to add a 30-minute guided viewing activity to any tour. With this option, at the end of the tour, each student selects an artwork in the galleries, and museum docents assist students as they respond in writing to a series of prompts that encourage visual analysis and interpretation. This exercise guides students through the processes of critical and aesthetic response as defined by the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities. This activity is easily extended to follow-up projects in the classroom.
60-minute tour: $5.00/student
90-minute tour: $6.50/student
Extend any tour with the 30-minute guided viewing
activity for an additional $1.50 per student.
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Looking and Learning
Available for students in first grade and above
Ideal for visitors new to the museum, this tour engages students in observation and discussion of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts objects from many time periods and parts of the world. Students hone their viewing skills and learn to articulate their ideas about what they see by focusing on subject matter and the elements and principles of design. This tour can be customized to address specific artists and artworks that have been introduced in the classroom through Traveling Art Gallery or similar programs.
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Looking and Learning in Context
Available for students in first grade and above
Building on visual analysis skills described in the Looking and Learning tour, more experienced students discuss the impact of cultural and historical conditions on artworks. Higher-level thinking skills come into play as students make connections between what they observe and background information provided by museum docents, enabling them to develop their own interpretations. This tour can be customized to address specific artists and artworks that have been introduced in the classroom through Traveling Art Gallery or similar programs.
Exploring Ancient Greece and Rome
Available for students in third grade and above
The visual forms and philosophical ideals of ancient Greece and Rome become real for your students in the museum’s Halls of Architecture and Sculpture. Our renowned collection of plaster casts of great monuments—from the Parthenon to the Discus Thrower and Winged Victory—inspire comparison, analysis, and discussion. Classically inspired artworks from later centuries help students grasp the ancient world’s enduring relevance. Comparison with Egyptian culture is available by request.
Athena to Zeus: Mythology in Ancient Greek and Roman Art
Available for students in first grade and above
Mythological characters were developed by ancient civilizations to explain the forces of nature and human experience. Students interpret myths represented in life-size, plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture and in paintings from succeeding centuries. Comparison with Asian and African art is available by request.
Art and Christianity
Available for students in sixth grade and above
Art created in or for religious contexts is explored in this tour of Christian-themed painting, sculpture, and architecture produced between the 14th and 20th centuries. Students discover symbols and stories in art, and their meaning and significance in Christianity.
Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania
Available for students in third grade and above
Local heritage and history come alive in the work of Pennsylvania artists such as Edward Hicks, Mary Cassatt, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and John Kane. Students recognize familiar Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania scenes depicted by 19th- and 20th-century artists and reflect on the ways in which industrialization shaped the landscape and influenced daily life.
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Impressionism: An Artistic
Revolution
Available for students in third grade and above
Students examine works by major Impressionist painters —Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, and others—and discover how and why their subject matter and innovative techniques were part of an artistic uprising that paralleled an age of social, scientific, and industrial revolution. A look at artworks by van Gogh, Cezanne, and later artists places Impressionism and the beginnings of Modernism in historical context. This tour is ideal for French language classes, and can be conducted in French by special request.
Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Available for students in sixth grade and above
Students participate in active looking and interpretive analysis of artworks created in the 20th and 21st centuries, a period that has witnessed an explosion of artistic media. The museum’s important collection of recent art puts students in touch with everything from modernist paintings on canvas to video and sculptural installations. Students become more skilled in aesthetic and critical response as they consider the intersection of art and contemporary experience.
By request, tours may focus on one of the following themes, which correspond to points in recent history.
American Abstraction examines how early 20th-century U.S. artists borrowed European techniques to develop a distinctly American response to Modernism.
Art after Modernism explains the array of new artistic genres that emerged in the latter half of the 20th century, including Pop art, Minimal sculpture, and video.
Contemporary Art sheds light on the diverse practices and far-reaching cultural themes expressed in the art of this century.
Old Masters of Tomorrow
Available for students in seventh grade and above
When Andrew Carnegie founded the museum in 1895, he envisioned a collection that would grow through the astute acquisition of contemporary art objects by artists who would one day be regarded as masters. This was his primary motivation for establishing the exhibition series in 1896 that we now know as the Carnegie International. Students observe and discuss a variety of artworks in the permanent collection that were featured in past Internationals. Docents highlight key ideas about the reception of contemporary art in Pittsburgh over the last 112 years and the important role of the International in shaping our understanding of art history.
Art and Literature
Available for students in ninth grade and above
This interdisciplinary tour explores the stylistic relationships between visual art and literary movements. Illuminate written works presented in your American or world literature classes by close analysis of original paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts created in corresponding periods. This tour inspires collaboration among English, art, and social studies teachers, and can be customized to incorporate particular literary works or movements, by request.
Art Inspires Narrative Writing
Available for students in sixth grade and above (90-min tour)
Art inspires great stories! Short writing exercises based on prompts delivered by museum docents allow students to practice developing their ideas about character, setting, theme, and plot while unlocking their potential as creative writers. Students leave the galleries equipped with descriptive language and a framework for a final written assignment back in the classroom.
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Introduce your students to the art that everyone is talking about this year by requesting a docent-guided tour of a special exhibition. These shows are on view for limited time periods:
90-minute tour: $6.50 per student
3-hour gallery program and Oakland walking tour:
$9.00
Carnegie International
May 3, 2008–Jan. 11, 2009
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