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. Skilled docents use a variety of interactive, inquiry-based approaches in their gallery teaching, encouraging active looking, analysis and critical thinking.
School groups may visit the Museum on their own. All teacher-led tours must be scheduled three weeks in advance.
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To learn more about the school tours we offer, choose from the list below.
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 |
| 5-12 | Art of Early Western Civilizations |
| 3-12 | Chinese 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 |
| 3-12 | Kansas City Sculpture Park |
| 9-12 | Photography |
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 |
| 7-12 | Language Tours: For Spanish, French and German language classes |
Using Missouri and Kansas State Standards as the foundation, tours are designed to meet specific grade level expectations. Teachers may select from a variety of tour types.
Highlight Tours are designed to provide students with an introduction to the Museum’s overall collections; Collection Tours explore one area of the Museum’s collection; Thematic Tours are an experience that link collections and Featured Exhibition Tours bring the Museum’s outstanding collection of art together with magnificent works from private collections and world-renowned art institutions.
School tours are FREE, one hour and 15 minutes in length and are available for grades 2-12.
Lunch
School groups may bring sack lunches and picnic on the grounds of the Kansas City Sculpture Park; there are no facilities for students to eat sack lunches inside the Museum. Teachers are responsible for making alternate arrangements in inclement weather
Click here for a menu of box lunch options
Please note there is no indoor facility where school groups may eat sack lunches.
Please note that one adult must accompany every 10 students.
School Tours are made possible in part by Sprint and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
