Schools + Educators
Group Visits
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How to sign up for a Group Visit Visits must be scheduled 3-4 weeks in advance. Step 1) Read about our Group Visits Themes here and choose the tour that interests you. Step 2) Fill out the appropriate Reservation Request form - Around the Block or Spring Exhibitions, and email it as a Word Document or PDF to groupvisits@elmuseo.org. Step 3) Read over our Group Visits Guidelines here. Step 4) You will receive an email Confirmation Sheet and Invoice from Group Visits within 3-4 weeks.* *Your visit is not confirmed until you receive a Confirmation Sheet and Invoice. |
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Guided Tours:
El Museo offers a variety of Guided Tours designed to encourage observations, spark curiosities, and create conversations around selected works of art and objects. All of the Guided Tours are inquiry-based and reflect the Museum’s approach of engaging visitors in a dialogue. Visitors will engage in interactive discussions and activities facilitated by a museum educator to build upon their prior knowledge and experiences, make connections with what they see, and develop a deeper understanding of the works of art discussed.
Each Guided Tour is an hour long, allowing groups to discuss 4-5 objects in depth while also participating in activities that may include movement, writing, or sketching activities that appeal to multiple ways of learning and interpreting.
Hands-On Workshops:
To further explore the themes and dialogues that emerge in the Guided Tour, Hands-on Workshops foster visitors’ observational, critical thinking, and creative skills. Museum educators build upon the ideas discussed in the galleries to facilitate a unique art-making experience in El Museo’s Taller (art workshop).
Art forms explored in the hour-long workshops may include printmaking, painting, collage, drawing, multi-media, and creative writing. In addition to creating art, visitors are encouraged to share their works and ideas to further deepen the connections made throughout their visit.
The themes for our Guided Tours and Hands-on Workshops are drawn from various ideas and objects that involve the Permanent Collection, Temporary Exhibitions, Cultural Celebrations, and El Barrio. To further explore these themes, please click here.