Special Exhibition l Archaeology l Permanent Exhibition
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Note: Any of the tours described below, except Art on the Road, can be scheduled as a school tour (75 minutes) or as a school tour PLUS workshop (two hours).
The Jewish Museum is excited to launch Art on the Road, a hands-on, art-based program that brings the Museum to schools. A Jewish Museum educator will work with individual classes at your school, using artifact replicas, touchable materials and visual images to engage students through discussion, observation and interactive activities. Lessons are thematic, relate to The Jewish Museum’s exhibitions, address Common Core State Standards and the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Visual Arts and can be tailored for students in grades K-12. Choose from the following:
Archaeology and the Ancient World: Students have the opportunity to handle replicas of ancient clay and metal artifacts to explore the archaeological process and daily life within the context of ancient civilizations.
The Art of the Book: Students grind pigments using a mortar and pestle and examine parchments, reed pens and natural pigments to learn about medieval manuscripts and book production in the Middle Ages.
Art on the Road is currently being offered to schools in Manhattan only. A minimum of two lessons must be scheduled per Art on the Road visit to your school. Each lesson must be for an individual classroom and lasts for one period. Cost: $120/lesson.
To schedule a visit or for more information, please call 212-423-3256 or email schoolaccess@thejm.org.
SPECIAL EXHIBITION TOURS
As it were ... So to speak
A Museum Collection in
Dialogue with Barbara Bloom
March 15–August 4, 2013
Grades 2–12
Imagine mining the Museum’s collection of 26,000 objects and responding with your own gallery installation. Contemporary artist Barbara Bloom was asked to do just
that and creates an installation that recontextualizes, among other items, paintings, Jewish marriage contracts and clocks, promoting dialogue across time and place.
Tour may include a visit to Offit Gallery, where Six Things:
Sagmeister & Walsh is on view from March 15 until August 4, 2013.
ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM
Archaeological Dig: Exploring the Ancient World
Grade 6
Students learn about ancient cultures by participating in a simulated archaeological dig in the Museum’s interactive children’s exhibition Archaeology Zone: Discovering Treasures from Playgrounds to Palaces. They examine pottery, metalwork, mosaics, and glassware and discover more about the field of archaeology.
This tour includes:
- Participation in a simulated archaeological dig;
- Exploration of the ancient civilizations galleries
- Hands-on studio art project.
Archaeological Dig PLUS Archaeology Zone
Grade 6
This program offers students an extended opportunity to participate in a simulated archaeological dig and explore Archaeology Zone: Discovering Treasures from Playgrounds to Palaces, the Museum’s interactive children’s exhibition. After digging for artifacts, students learn the methods archaeologists use to examine and analyze their finds.
This school tour plus workshop includes:
- Participation in the Museum's simulated archaeological dig;
- Exploration of the Archaeology Zone exhibition
- Tour of the ancient civilizations galleries
- Hands-on studio art project.
PERMANENT EXHIBITION TOURS
Remembering the Holocaust
Grades 6-12
Students discuss, interpret, and establish connections between the events of World War II and works of art and artifacts related to the Holocaust.
Educator Resource: Holocaust
The Immigrant Experience
Grades 6-8
Students consider the experience of immigration by examining paintings, photographs, and artifacts.
Educator Resource: Immigration
Narratives in Painting and Sculpture
Grades 6-12
By analyzing original works of art, students gain insight into how artists use color, form, and medium to convey meaning.
Grades 6-8 Pre-visit material (PDF) Grades 9-12 Pre-visit material (PDF)
Writing Through Art
Grades 6-12
Students discover how works of art can inspire creative writing and how writing can be a powerful means of engaging with the visual world.
Pre-visit material (PDF)
Art, Identity, and Change in the Modern World
Grades 6-12
Students explore paintings, sculptures, and photographs from the past 150 years inspired by historical events such as immigration, the industrial age, World Wars I and II, the Holocaust, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Grades 6-8 Pre-visit material (PDF)
Grades 9-12 Pre-visit material (PDF)
Curriculum guide (PDF)
Cultural Exchange
Grades 9-12
Students view art and artifacts that reflect the dynamic cultural exchanges between many cultures including Jewish and Muslim peoples.
Curriculum guide (PDF)
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Image credits (top to bottom):
Sharon Lockhart, Production still from Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol (detail), 2011
Exhibition detail: Barbara Bloom. Painting: Artist unknown, Portrait of a Man with a Fur Hat, late nineteenth century
