Our docent-guided or staff-led experiences promote critical thinking and interdisciplinary curriculum applications, and support State and District Model Academic Standards. To view Milwaukee Public School Learning Targets for all of our school programs, visit the Milwaukee Arts Education Directory.
You can also submit your registration request online, below, or contact the Tour Scheduler at grouptours@mam.org or 414-224-3842 for more details.
Register for a School Tour today!In this overview of the Museum Collection, students acquire basic art vocabulary and critical-looking skills while exploring the making and meaning of art from different cultures.
Take a tour with the alphabet! Inspired by the book A Is for Art by Marjorie Nelson Moon, explore art from many cultures while reinforcing language development.
Discover a menagerie of friendly animals and fantastic beasts from different cultures and times in paintings and sculptures.
Take a journey through the galleries using your imagination: how might artworks smell, taste, feel, and sound?
Learn how artists begin to create masterpieces by getting to know the building blocks of art—line, shape, and color.
Imagine, tell, and listen to stories that artists portray in their work.
Investigate Western (European and/or American) and non-Western (Haitian, Asian, and/or African) art, discovering similarities, differences, and cross-cultural influences.
Meet the people—and animals—revealed in the portraits throughout the Museum’s galleries.
Steel, glass, bronze, and even buttons make up the three-dimensional works in the Museum’s sculpture collection.
Glazing, scumbling, impasto, collage, assemblage? These mysterious words are demystified after exploring the many techniques artists use to create their work.
Link art and science through images that describe weather conditions and seasons.
Enhance study of French, Spanish, or German by exploring related art and culture. (Specify your language choice with the Tour Scheduler. Docents for these tours are limited.)
Take an in-depth look at the exhibitions, which are at the Museum for only a limited time. Take your visit into the classroom with our Teacher Guides.
Look inside (and outside) at the Museum’s layers of architectural history, with designs by Eero Saarinen, David Kahler, and Santiago Calatrava.
Follow Santiago Calatrava’s creative process from idea to completion, examining his addition to the Museum, in which he combined nature with state-of-the-art engineering.
From folk art to fine art, explore works of art that celebrate African American heritage.
Learn about the culture of this Caribbean country through the Museum’s rich collection of Haitian paintings and sculpture.
In these works by self-taught artists, history and inner visions emerge and people and animals are animated, inviting questions about art and its role in society.
Get to know the “isms,” from Realism and Impressionism to Cubism and Expressionism, by comparing and contrasting art from the mid-1860s onwards.
Look at art created after World War II, considering how artists were influenced by the work that came before them.