Home school tours
Tours are designed to present a rich visual arts experience, increase students' perceptual and critical thinking skills, engage students in active looking and discussions, and enrich and extend school curricula.
Free Home School Tours
The Brooks is pleased to offer free tours to home school students and their parents. On selected days during the school year, the museum’s trained volunteer docents provide thematic tours of the museum’s permanent collection and special exhibitions. Students 6-13 also participate in a hands-on, art-making activity that complements the content of their tour. While the other students are in the studio, pre-school aged children enjoy story time and teens 14 years and older enjoy a longer tour.
Tours are held from 11 am - 12:30 pm and 1 - 2:30 pm. Individual reservations are required, but there is not a minimum number per group. For upcoming events and activities please view the family fun calendar here. Registration for 2010 spring sessions begins February 2, 2010.
Spring 2010
Thursday, March 11 | Venice in the Age of Canaletto
11 am and 1 pm
Inspired by Giovanni Antonio Canaletto’s marvelous and expansive painting The Grand Canal from Campo di San Vio—a gift from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the Brooks Museum—this exhibition celebrates Venice’s last, and most opulent, artistic period. This era, which spans the 18th century, saw the city transformed into a glittering destination for wealthy European tourists on the Grand Tour. Venice’s exotic setting, grand pageants, and famous carnival season, were enhanced by its extraordinary and diverse cultural heritage. The era saw the emergence of not only Canaletto, but Gianbattista Tiepolo, Sebastiano Ricci, and others. Their paintings evocatively capture the decadence, splendor, and beauty of this magnificent and historic city. A collaborative effort of the Brooks and the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, Venice in the Age of Canaletto offers a rare look at sumptuous paintings, as well as prints, furniture, and textiles from the city’s golden age.
Thursday, May 13 | What's the Story?
11 am and 1 pm
Paintings, sculptures, and other art objects can illustrate historical events, Biblical stores, famous myths and legends, or personal memories. Other works of art invite us to create our own stories. On this tour, students play detective looking at clues in the works of art to figure out the story being told, the hero, and any other plot complications.
To Register for Home School Sessions
(Registration begins February 2, 2010)
If registering by email or by phone, please provide the parents name, email address, home address, phone number, children's names, ages, session date, and time preferences.By email: edu@brooksmuseum.org
By phone: 901.544.6242