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Kindergarten–Grade 3

Art Investigators: As "art investigators," students will look for clues, explore artists' choices, and use their imaginations to learn about modern and contemporary art. This tour will introduce students to the museum and the basic elements of art.

Faces and Places: Explore portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes, and learn about people and places from the past.

Nature in Art: If you could step into a landscape, what would you hear or feel? This tour explores how artists depict the natural world and invites students to use their imaginations while carefully exploring art and nature too.

Every Picture Tells a Story: (Grade 3 and up); 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.

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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