Use these free, downloadable teaching materials and web interactives to create inquiry-based learning experiences for your students. Each PDF features an artwork from the Museum's permanent collection or a special exhibition. The high-resolution color images, contextual information, questions for viewing, and activity ideas are tools to help you look at art with your students. You can also learn more about the Museum's collection with our online database.
Share your teaching stories with us! If you use these materials, let us know at school.programs@brooklynmuseum.org.
Contemporary (2000–present)
Photography/Film/Video
Question Bridge: Black Males
HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions
Painting/Drawing/Printmaking
Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection
© MURAKAMI
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection
Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford (Grades K–5)
Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford (Middle and High School)
Decorative Arts/Textiles
Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains
Mixed Media/Installation/Sculpture
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui (currently on view)
Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe
Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective
Sun K. Kwak: Enfolding 280 Hours
Lorna Simpson: Gathered
Kiki Smith: Sojourn
The Eye of the Artist: The Work of Devorah Sperber
Ron Mueck
Fred Tomaselli
Yinka Shonibare MBE
20th Century (1900–1999)
Photography/Film/Video
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present
Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera
Painting/Drawing/Printmaking
John Singer Sargent Watercolors (currently on view)
Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum (currently on view)
Joseph Stella, "The Virgin" Collection Highlight
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
Gora Mbengue, "Al-Buraq" Collection Highlight (currently on view)
HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
Keith Haring: 1978–1982
Thomas Hart Benton, "Louisiana Rice Fields" Collection Highlight (currently on view)
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
Mixed Media/Installation/Sculpture
The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago Long-term installation (currently on view)
Joe Overstreet, "Power Flight" Collection Highlight (currently on view)
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968
Materializing "Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard
and the Emergence of Conceptual Art
HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
19th Century (1800–1899)
"Workt by Hand": Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts (currently on view)
Unidentified Kongo artist, "Power Figure" Collection Highlight (currently on view)
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection
James Tissot: “The Life of Christ”
Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864
Ancient to 18th Century (5000 B.C.E.–1799 C.E.)
"Wine Jar with Fish and Aquatic Plants," China, early 14th century Collection Highlight
To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
Unknown Roman artist, "Mosaic of Lion" Collection Highlight
Unearthing the Truth: Egypt's Pagan and Coptic Sculpture
"Nefertiti," Egypt, Amarna Period Collection Highlight (currently on view)
The Fertile Goddess
Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses
Web Interactives
Ancient Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum presents object-based activities and reference materials on ancient Egypt and the Museum’s rich collection of Egyptian art.
Jean-Michel Basquiat's paintings and drawings portray his ideas about life and the world around him. Basquiat: Street to Studio lets students examine his work and create their own art online.
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
