School Tours
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's school tours offer students the opportunity to view original works of art. Highly skilled docents use a variety of interactive, inquiry-based approaches in their gallery teaching, encouraging active looking, analysis and critical thinking.
Using Missouri and Kansas State Standards as the foundation, tours are designed to meet specific grade level expectations. School tours are FREE, one hour and 15 minutes in length and are available for grades 2-12.
To learn more about the school tours we offer, choose from the list below. Due to renovations, objects in the Egyptian and Ancient galleries will not be included in these tours.
Please note that (1) adult must accompany every 10 students.
Box lunches can be ordered through Rozzelle Court Restaurant or sack lunches may be eaten outside in the Kansas City Sculpture Park.
Click here for a menu of box lunch options
Please note there is no indoor facility where school groups may eat sack lunches.
Grades |
School Tours |
Highlight Tours: an introductory experience |
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| 3-6 | My Art Museum |
| 7-12 | Ancient to Modern |
Collection Tours: explore a specific area of the Museum |
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| 3-8 | African Art |
| 4-12 | American Art: 1776-1900 |
| 4-12 | American Art: 1900-1945 |
| 2-12 | American Indian Art |
| 3-12 | Chinese Art |
| 9-12 | Contemporary Art |
| 5-12 | European Art: 17th and 18th Centuries |
| 5-12 | European Art: French Revolution through World War II |
| 5-12 | European Art: Middle Ages through the Renaissance |
| 7-12 | Kansas City Sculpture Park |
| 9-12 | Photography |
| Ages 6-12 | Sculpture in Summer |
Thematic Tours: exeriences that link collections |
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| 3-12 | A Tactile Tour for the Visually Impaired: The Human Figure in Sculpture |
| 3-12 | A Write Way to Art |
| 3-12 | A Tactile Tour for the Visually Impaired: Contemporary Interpretations |
| 7-12 | Language Tours: For Spanish, French and German language classses |
School groups may visit the Museum on their own. We ask that all teacher-led tours be scheduled in advance. Visit Teacher-led Tours for more information.
School Tours are made possible in part by support from the Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation, Sprint and Blue Cross Blue Shield.