Tour Types

Art Investigators

One hour | Grades 2–8 | 6-72 participants

Imagine yourself on an epic adventure around the world! Complete up to six mini quests. Students work together in groups to interpret works of art through embodied movement, creative improvised storytelling, music, imagination, sketching, conversations, and/or arts-based wellness experiences.

This program is a research-based, trauma-informed experience designed for engagement. Ask us for more information about trauma-informed principles of teaching and learning.

This tour meets Indiana Academic Standards.

Maximum capacity is 6 pods with 12 students each.

Pre-visit resources will be provided.

Reservations must be made at least 3 weeks in advance. This program is offered from 10 – 11 a.m., Tuesdays through Fridays. For an on time start at 10 a.m., teachers must have students organized into pods (tour groups), ready at 9:55 a.m. Due to class schedules, this tour ends on time despite late arrivals. Late arrivals will skip one or more stops of the tour.

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Teen Gallery Walk

One hour | Grades 9-12 | Up to 60 participants

This is a semi-guided museum experience for high school students who are ready for structured independence. You know your students best. This tour offers choices and requires responsible behavior.

The Teen Gallery Walk empowers teens to take charge of their museum experience. It engages students by building trust, offering choices, and promoting opportunities for self-discovery and emotional self-regulation.

Unless the teacher has a specific assignment in mind for this visit, we will facilitate activities designed to offer a variety of modes of experiencing an art museum: as a place to explore one’s natural curiosity, a space to destress and pursue wellness, and as a place to come for a social outing with creative ways to experience art together with others.

The Gallery Walk typically visits three galleries. In each gallery, your guide will:

• introduce you to what’s on view, in a nutshell, and how the gallery is organized
• introduce one of the top reasons people choose to visit museums in their precious free time (e.g. to explore, to recharge, to socialize).
• provide time to follow your heart with a self-guided prompt, so you can spend a little time with what most interests you within that gallery
• remain available to chat and respond to questions as you look at what interests you
• circle up the group to find out which artworks you chose, what you discovered by looking carefully, what kinds of questions and observations came up, etc.

Teen Gallery Walk is a research-based, trauma-informed experience designed for engagement. Ask us for more information about trauma-informed principles of teaching and learning.

Maximum capacity is three pods with 20 students each.

Pre-visit resources will be provided.

Reservations must be made at least 3 weeks in advance. Reservations are available for a choice of times:

10 – 11 a.m.

12 – 1 p.m., with optional indoor lunch space reservation for 11:30 – noon.

For teachers who want to make the most of the campus visit by scheduling a combination of tours from multiple departments on campus in a single day, we can provide a list of some options with contact information.

Review chaperone guidelines for tours.

Social Studies Literacy: "Remembrance and Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust, 1940–1970 "

One hour | Grades 6-12

This program addresses Indiana Academic Standards for Social Studies Literacy for grades 6-12. The program consists of three parts: pre-visit, the visit, and post-visit. This is a teacher-guided experience, with resources and support provided by the museum’s education department.

To prepare teachers and students, pre-visit information and resources will be shared in advance, including:

• an introduction for this visit
• ground rules
• an assignment to share with students. This writing assignment, which will be completed during and after the visit, addresses Indiana Academic Standards for History/Social Studies Literacy.
• a list of what students need to bring: notebook, pencil, the assignment
• definitions of potentially unfamiliar vocabulary
• a simple floor plan of the gallery, showing where to find each of the four sections within this exhibition: Destruction, Exile, Remember, and Repair
• resources for learning about the Holocaust: Learn about the Holocaust at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website.
• bus parking and logistical information

To allow for flexibility in class size, the visit is a teacher-guided experience with resources provided by the museum. A museum educator or trained volunteer will be available in the gallery to help navigate, to help answer questions, and to help keep students on task.

Students will bring a pencil, a notebook, and the worksheet of reflection questions into the gallery, for notetaking.

This assignment is designed to meet Indiana State Standards for Social Studies Literacy for grades 6-12. Here are some of the curricular requirements that this visit addresses:

• LH7.1 Students will conduct a short research assignment and tasks to answer a question.
• LH7.2 Students will gather relevant information from authoritative sources.
• LH7.3 Students will draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
• LH4.1 Students will integrate visual and textual info in order to address a question.
• LH3.1 Students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• LH3.2 Students will reflect on how the researcher organized the information presented in this exhibition.

Students complete the writing assignment after the visit.

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New on View

One hour | 6–30 adult participants

Discover what’s new. Tour one of our featured exhibitions or a combination. In your request, let us know which exhibition(s) you hope to see.

Before you request a tour, please review our current and upcoming exhibitions, including opening and closing dates. Be sure to check that your visit coincides with the exhibition dates.

Artwork from Around the World

One hour | 6–45 adult participants

Explore artworks from cultures around the world, spanning from ancient times to the present. This tour includes an introduction to the museum and its collections. Unless otherwise requested, this tour visits all three floors of the museum.

Global Modern and Contemporary Art

One hour | 6–24 participants

Join a guide for an exploration of modern and contemporary artworks from around the world.

Unless otherwise requested, this tour visits all three floors of the museum to include a variety of art forms. Tour routes may vary as what’s on view changes. The tour may include site-specific installation, textiles, mixed media, painting, time-based media, sculpture, photography, ceramics, printmaking, and/or other media. Depending on what’s currently on view, this tour may visit Featured Exhibitions as well as collections.