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The museum’s K-12 programs inspire curiosity and promote creativity through close-looking, conversation, and gallery activities.

Working individually or in groups, students will practice observation, critical thinking, problem solving, and literacy skills. All K-12 tours meet Common Core Academic and National Visual Arts standards while providing an inclusive environment for diverse learners.

For more information or for help booking your tour, please email [email protected].

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Virtual Visits

Bring the Philadelphia Museum of Art directly to your classroom! Join us each month for live, interactive sessions where museum educators team up with guest artists and other museums to look at artwork from world-class collections and draw meaningful connections across subjects and cultures.

Educator Programs

The Philadelphia Museum of Art offers a variety of professional development programs for educators of all subjects and grade levels. Discover new artists and teaching strategies in our galleries, at your school, or online.

Teaching Materials

(Re)Imagining Monuments

In this lesson, students will reflect on the history, meaning, and purpose of monuments. They will then design a monument of their own.
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Feeling Through Abstraction

In this lesson, students will connect feelings to abstract artworks. They will then have the opportunity to create an abstract collage in response to a feeling.
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Imagine If… (For Younger Students)

In this lesson, students will look at objects and imagine how they might be made more effective (work better), efficient (easier to use), ethical (better for the community), or beautiful. They will then design new versions of the objects with these goals in mind.
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The Art of Fashion

How can clothes tell a story about who we are or how we wish to be seen? In this lesson, students will look at fashion from the museum collection and design something of their own.
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Surrealism Lesson Plan

Surrealism was an early twentieth-century art movement concerned with dreams and the subconscious. In this lesson, students will experiment with Surrealist games, drawings, and writing of their own.
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The Sound of Art

In this lesson, students will look at artworks created with music in mind. They will then have the opportunity to create art while listening to songs.
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American Art 1650-1850 Resources

These teaching resources highlight works of art chosen by educators to reflect multiple perspectives on the history of the United States
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Art Speaks Teacher Resources

Use educational resources to prepare your students for Art Speaks, a museum visit program for 4th-grade students in Philadelphia public schools.
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Projecting Across Time: Art and Climate Change Resource

In this lesson, students will explore relationships between humans and the environment over time.
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Self Portraiture and Identity Educational Resource

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Creative Mapmaking Lesson Plan

What comes to mind when you think of maps? How might they be used to tell stories about places, identities, or power? Use this slideshow to explore these questions and more.
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Sponsors of Virtual Visits Program

A Nation of Artists is organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

This exhibition is made possible by The Middleton Family.

Major support is provided by the Connelly Foundation, The Victory Foundation, and an anonymous donor.

Significant support is provided by The City of Philadelphia and Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, the Philadelphia Funder Collaborative for the Semiquincentennial, the Henry Luce Foundation, Schoelkopf Fine Art Advisors, and Grace and Andrew Schoelkopf.

Additional support is provided by the 25th Century Foundation, Lawrence H. and Julie C. Berger, Mr.* and Mrs. John A. Nyheim, Marsha and Richard Rothman Family Foundation, an anonymous donor, and other generous supporters.

This exhibition is sponsored by

Funding for the publication is generously provided by

The exhibition celebration is generously sponsored by

The renovation and reinstallation of the American galleries was provided by Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Leslie Miller and Richard Worley, Laura and William C. Buck, Kathy and Ted Fernberger, Joan and Victor Johnson, Mr.* and Mrs. John A. Nyheim, Lyn M. and George M. Ross, Marsha and Richard Rothman, and other generous donors.

Ongoing support for American Art initiatives and programs is provided by the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, established by Robert L. McNeil, Jr.

All exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are underwritten by the Annual Exhibition Fund. Generous support is provided by Andrea Baldeck, M.D.; Julia and David Fleischner; Robert Hayes; and Mark W. Strong and Dana Strong.

The presentation of A Nation of Artists at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is made possible by significant grants from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Richard C. von Hess Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the William Penn Foundation, and generous individual donors.