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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.
Recommended for Grades 6–12
(Lessons are ninety minutes in length)
African Art and Community
This lesson emphasizes the functions of art in traditional African communities. Students will view objects associated with responsibility, kingship, justice, education, and village life to discover how art is used as a tool to maintain important social relationships.
This lesson emphasizes the functions of art in traditional African communities. Students will view objects associated with responsibility, kingship, justice, education, and village life to discover how art is used as a tool to maintain important social relationships.
Art and Literacy
Use the Museum’s collections and special exhibitions to explore the stylistic relationship between art and writing. This lesson investigates creative and critical aspects of art and writing to address their descriptive, reflective, and analytical possibilities.
Use the Museum’s collections and special exhibitions to explore the stylistic relationship between art and writing. This lesson investigates creative and critical aspects of art and writing to address their descriptive, reflective, and analytical possibilities.
Art in Ancient Egypt: Daily Life
Students will learn about the daily lives of ancient Egyptians by examining visual imagery on funerary objects. Work, the environment, clothing, food, and family life are among the themes that may be explored.
Students will learn about the daily lives of ancient Egyptians by examining visual imagery on funerary objects. Work, the environment, clothing, food, and family life are among the themes that may be explored.
Art in Ancient Egypt: Signs and Symbols
This lesson examines how ancient Egyptian artists and scribes used visual imagery on funerary objects to ensure protection and care for the deceased in the afterlife. Ancient narrative, hieroglyphs, mummification, and burial customs are featured.
This lesson examines how ancient Egyptian artists and scribes used visual imagery on funerary objects to ensure protection and care for the deceased in the afterlife. Ancient narrative, hieroglyphs, mummification, and burial customs are featured.
Artists' Choices
Engage with artworks that express themes about the human condition. Students will examine how artists convey meaning and evoke empathy through their use of imagery and material. This lesson may include figurative and abstract artworks that refer to everyday life, moral choices, and human relationships.
Engage with artworks that express themes about the human condition. Students will examine how artists convey meaning and evoke empathy through their use of imagery and material. This lesson may include figurative and abstract artworks that refer to everyday life, moral choices, and human relationships.
Arts of the Ancient World
Students will interpret and analyze artifacts to compare important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions of ancient Egypt, Assyria, and Asia.
Students will interpret and analyze artifacts to compare important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions of ancient Egypt, Assyria, and Asia.
Geometry and Islamic Art
Students will look at Islamic art for examples of geometric transformation such as translation, rotation, and reflection. This lesson focuses on decorative elements and geometric design. The lesson can be adapted for younger students.
Students will look at Islamic art for examples of geometric transformation such as translation, rotation, and reflection. This lesson focuses on decorative elements and geometric design. The lesson can be adapted for younger students.
Journey Down the Silk Road
Objects from China, India, and the Middle East vividly evoke the exchange of goods and ideas along the Silk Road. By studying design and function, students will understand how ceramics, carpets, manuscripts, and other objects served as ambassadors for their cultures.
Objects from China, India, and the Middle East vividly evoke the exchange of goods and ideas along the Silk Road. By studying design and function, students will understand how ceramics, carpets, manuscripts, and other objects served as ambassadors for their cultures.
Modern Issues
Examine issues of contemporary culture such as identity, immigration, industrialization, social justice, and feminism. Students will study art as a primary resource to address these themes. If you would like your lesson to focus on a specific topic, please specify on your reservation form.
Examine issues of contemporary culture such as identity, immigration, industrialization, social justice, and feminism. Students will study art as a primary resource to address these themes. If you would like your lesson to focus on a specific topic, please specify on your reservation form.
The Big Picture
Discover what makes the Brooklyn Museum a unique cultural resource. Students will explore the building’s architecture, the collections of objects from around the world, and other resources such as the Museum’s Library and Archives. They will also discuss the process of gaining knowledge through direct experience with art objects.
Discover what makes the Brooklyn Museum a unique cultural resource. Students will explore the building’s architecture, the collections of objects from around the world, and other resources such as the Museum’s Library and Archives. They will also discuss the process of gaining knowledge through direct experience with art objects.
Women and Art
Compare and contrast artworks created by, for, and about women, including The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. This lesson may explore the meaning of feminism as well as the themes of women as artists and women as subjects in art. There is a limit of fifteen students per group.
Compare and contrast artworks created by, for, and about women, including The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. This lesson may explore the meaning of feminism as well as the themes of women as artists and women as subjects in art. There is a limit of fifteen students per group.
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum