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Grades 4-6

American Art: How does art send messages about a nation and its identity? In this tour, students explore the historical and cultural connections in works of American art.

Exploring the Elements of Art: What are the different elements that make up a work of art? This tour examines color, line, shape, form, and texture.

Every Picture Tells a Story: Paintings are more than just pictures in a frame—they are unfolding stories with multiple perspectives. In this tour, students will learn to "read" works of art by identifying characters, setting, and plot, and by creating dialogue.

Mythology: Which significant episode or moment in a mythological story did an artist choose to depict, and why? This tour unravels Greek and Roman myths, which artists through the ages have depicted with great drama and imagination.

Sculpture and Sketching: From figurative bronzes and marble carving to objects that challenge conventional ideas about sculpture, students investigate materials and techniques as well as the works' subjects and functions.

Schedule a Tour

Note: We are no longer accepting tour requests for spring 2013. We will begin accepting fall 2013 requests on August 1.

Pre-Visit Information

Watch a video or download a presentation to show your students prior to your visit. View our musuem policies, location, parking, accessiblity, security, lunch options, and other important information about visiting.

Questions

Our tour scheduler, Jennifer Cross, is available to answer questions on Monday through Wednesday between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. (September through May). Please contact her at (202) 842-6249 schooltourrequests@nga.gov.

Also see our Frequently Asked Questions about School Tours.

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