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The Brooklyn Museum

Education: Guided Gallery Visits for K–12 students




Guided gallery visits are led by a Museum educator in the Brooklyn Museum’s galleries. Lessons are designed to encourage close looking and in-depth discussions and allow students to interpret art and its cultural context through strategies such as open-ended and guided questions, storytelling, movement, writing, and drawing. Students focus on three to five objects to develop their observation and critical thinking skills. These guided gallery visits support all five strands of the NYC Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts (Visual Art), as well as several New York State Learning Standards in Art, English Language Arts, and Social Studies. Please inform the Museum educator assigned to your class about adapting lessons to meet your specific curricular needs.

Students on a guided visit