School Group Tours
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The Currier works closely with K-12 students and their teachers to create an active learning environment at the museum to engage students in meaningful, personal experiences with works of art, while also drawing on their schools' curriculum and classroom focus.
School tours at the Currier involve the student with dialogue-driven and hands-on learning. The questioning strategies and activities used by museum docents enable students to build on their own knowledge base, feel comfortable making connections with art, and use important critical thinking skills that relate back to the classroom.
Students are encouraged to contemplate and articulate their reactions to works of art in the collection, incorporating visual, analytical, and verbal skills from areas of the school curriculum. Activities in the galleries, along with post-tour opportunities in the museum's studios, can include problem-solving skills, vocabulary and writing exercises, and visual analysis.
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School tours at the Currier and in the classroom incorporate multidisciplinary approaches to the works of art in the collection. These tours are also suitable for home-school audiences visiting the museum. Teachers may choose from the following themes and then tailor their tours and activities to meet their classroom's needs.
To schedule your school group's tour, complete a Request Form for one of the options below, or call 603.669.6144 x113.
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 | Stories in Art | 1 Hour (tour only) | This tour helps students explore how artists use character, plot, setting, and dialogue to tell different stories. Students are encouraged to draw their own stories from various works of art, making the experience personal and inspiring. Post-tour activities in the museum's studios can include: a sequencing activity using a reproduction of a work from the collection as the 'beginning' 'middle' or 'end' of a story to be completed by the student.
School Tour Reservations:
Tour only: $42.00 per group of 12.
Tour and post-Tour Art Making: $60.00 per group of 12.
Tour and other activity (teacher-guided gallery time, library visit): $42.00 per group of 12.
Bag lunch in Museum classroom: no charge.
As a Currier on the Move program at your school: $45.00 Program + art activity at your school: $70.00
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 | Building Blocks of Art | 1 Hour (tour only) | This tour introduces students to the elements of art in traditional and contemporary works, and gives them the tools to explore different works of art independently, studying color, line, and shape. Post-tour activities in the museum's studios can include a 3-D sculpture-making project.
School Tour Reservations:
Tour only: $42.00 per group of 12.
Tour and post-Tour Art Making: $60.00 per group of 12.
Tour and other activity (teacher-guided gallery time, library visit): $42.00 per group of 12.
Bag lunch in Museum classroom: no charge.
As a Currier on the Move program at your school: $45.00 Program + art activity at your school: $70.00 | Request |
 | New Hampshire History in Art | 1 Hour (tour only) | This tour complements the Currier's Online Curriculum, and helps students explore New Hampshire's history from colonial living, to industry and economics, to historical figures and modern and contemporary progress. Post-tour activities in the museum's studios can include: New Hampshire 'collage' (an outline of the state's borders which students fill with images that illustrate what NH 'means to me') or an activity to place objects from the collections on the map in accordance to their origin (Portsmouth furniture, White Mountains landscapes, etc.)
School Tour Reservations:
Tour only: $42.00 per group of 12.
Tour and post-Tour Art Making: $60.00 per group of 12.
Tour and other activity (teacher-guided gallery time, library visit): $42.00 per group of 12.
Bag lunch in Museum classroom: no charge.
As a Currier on the Move program at your school: $45.00 Program + art activity at your school: $70.00 | Request |
 | Forces of Nature in Art | 1 Hour (tour only) | This tour examines nature's impact on our environment – and on art. Students will discuss artists' depictions of raging storms, howling winds, falling water, and geologic pressure, along with how artists incorporate the actual effects and natural elements into the creation and display of their works. Post-tour activities in the museum's studios can include: a crayon-resist or tearing/collage technique activity.
School Tour Reservations:
Tour only: $42.00 per group of 12.
Tour and post-Tour Art Making: $60.00 per group of 12.
Tour and other activity (teacher-guided gallery time, library visit): $42.00 per group of 12.
Bag lunch in Museum classroom: no charge.
As a Currier on the Move program at your school: $45.00 Program + art activity at your school: $70.00 | Request |
| Exploring the Elements of Art | 1 Hour (tour only) | This tour for older students introduces them to the elements of art in traditional and contemporary works, and gives them the tools to explore different works of art independently, studying color, line, and shape. Post-tour activities in the museum's studios can include a printmaking project exploring composition, line, and form.
School Tour Reservations:
Tour only: $42.00 per group of 12.
Tour and post-Tour Art Making: $60.00 per group of 12.
Tour and other activity (teacher-guided gallery time, library visit): $42.00 per group of 12.
Bag lunch in Museum classroom: no charge.
As a Currier on the Move program at your school: $45.00 Program + art activity at your school: $70.00 | Request |
 | Literature and Art | 1 Hour (tour only) | This tour emphasizes curriculum links to language arts and literature, and shows how visual art can be a catalyst for creative writing, and vice versa. Post-tour activities in the museum's studios can include: a writing activity based on the works of art (tailored to what students are currently working on in the classroom) or a creative writing exercise.
School Tour Reservations:
Tour only: $42.00 per group of 12.
Tour and post-Tour Art Making: $60.00 per group of 12.
Tour and other activity (teacher-guided gallery time, library visit): $42.00 per group of 12.
Bag lunch in Museum classroom: no charge.
As a Currier on the Move program at your school: $45.00 Program + art activity at your school: $70.00
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 | What is Art? | 1 Hour (tour only) | This tour focuses on the integral question, 'What is art?' and guides students' exploration of modern and contemporary art, and its comparisons and relationships to traditional works of art, as they consider artists' choices, influences, and the message and language artists often employ in their works. Post-tour activities in the museum's studios can include: a written activity addressing the question, 'What is art?' or a drawing exercise in 'traditional' vs. abstract imagery and color.
School Tour Reservations:
Tour only: $42.00 per group of 12.
Tour and post-Tour Art Making: $60.00 per group of 12.
Tour and other activity (teacher-guided gallery time, library visit): $42.00 per group of 12.
Bag lunch in Museum classroom: no charge.
As a Currier on the Move program at your school: $45.00 Program + art activity at your school: $70.00 | Request |
