Carnegie Museum of Art’s school programs provide students of all ages with meaningful opportunities to create and engage with original works of art. Paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, film, video, and architecture from many centuries and locations offer endless possibilities for active exploration of academic themes from your curriculum. Exciting temporary exhibitions also present unique situations for learning beyond the classroom. Through discussion-centered gallery talks, writing exercises, and studio art-making, students deepen their understanding of the world and sharpen their visual, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.

Carnegie Museum of Art offers three types of museum visits: Guided Gallery Tours, Gallery-Studio Workshops, and School-Museum Projects. Begin by selecting a format that best serves your students:

Guided Gallery Tours: Students participate in inquiry-based dialogues, led by museum docents in the galleries, about thematic groups of art works;

Gallery-Studio Workshops: Students explore the creative process by discussing works of art in the galleries and art-making in the children’s studio;

School-Museum Projects: Interdisciplinary, thematic projects involve two or more student visits to the museum that may include gallery or gallery/studio experiences and a pre- or post-visit program conducted by museum educators in your classroom.

All museum programs align with the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities; History; and Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening. Programs that address the Standards for Mathematics and World Languages are noted.

Arts and Humanities
9.1 Production, Performance and Exhibition of Visual Arts-all gallery-studio workshops, and school/museum projects
9.2 Historical and Cultural Contexts-all tours, gallery-studio workshops, and school/museum projects
9.3 Critical Response-all tours with the guided viewing activity, gallery-studio workshops, and school/museum projects
9.4 Aesthetic Response-all tours with the guided viewing activity, gallery-studio workshops, and school/museum projects

History
8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development-all tours
8.2 Pennsylvania History-Looking & Learning, American Experiences, Pittsburgh & Pennsylvania, and Presenting Pittsburgh: Past & Present
8.3 United States History-American Experiences, Looking & Learning, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Pittsburgh & Pennsylvania, and Presenting Pittsburgh: Past & Present
8.4 World History-Looking & Learning, Famous Artists, European Experiences, Impressionism, Exploring Ancient Greece & Rome, Athena to Zeus, Impressionism, and Symbols & Stories in Art

Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
1.2 Reading Critically in all Content Areas-all tours
1.3 Analyzing and Interpreting-all tours and all gallery-studio programs
1.4 Types of Writing-Art & Writing and all tours with the guided viewing activity
1.6 Speaking and Listening-all tours and all gallery-studio workshops
1.8 Research-all tours with the guided viewing activity

Mathematics
2.3 Measurement and Estimation-Geometry, Proportion and Ratio
2.4 Mathematical Reasoning and Connections-Geometry, Proportion and Ratio
2.5 Mathematical Problem-Solving and Communication-Geometry, Proportion and Ratio

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