Carnegie Museum of Art welcomes students and teachers in all content areas! Our interdisciplinary programs focus on careful looking, analysis, and interpretation of original works of art. Paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, video, and architecture from many periods and cultures are the perfect complement to social studies, language arts and literature, writing, science, and math, as well as the art and art history curricula. Discussion-centered gallery talks, writing exercises, and studio art experiences guide students in the methods of analytical and critical thinking and problem-solving, providing them with skills essential to becoming savvy navigators of 21st-century life.

Carnegie Museum of Art offers three types of museum visits: Gallery Tours, Studio Workshops, and School-Museum Projects. Begin by selecting a format that best serves your students:

Gallery Tours:  Students participate in inquiry-based dialogues, led by museum docents in the galleries, about thematic groups of artworks.

Studio Workshops: Students explore the creative process by discussing works of art in the galleries and through related art-making activities in the studio led by certified artist educators.

School-Museum Projects: Students explore an interdisciplinary topic in depth over three consecutive days with combinations of gallery discussions and studio art-making.

All museum programs align with the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities; History; and Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening. Programs that address the Standards for Mathematics and World Languages are noted.

Arts and Humanities
9.1 Production, Performance and Exhibition of Visual Arts-all gallery-studio workshops, and school/museum projects
9.2 Historical and Cultural Contexts-all tours, gallery-studio workshops, and school/museum projects
9.3 Critical Response-all tours with the guided viewing activity, gallery-studio workshops, and school/museum projects
9.4 Aesthetic Response-all tours with the guided viewing activity, gallery-studio workshops, and school/museum projects

History
8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development-all tours
8.2 Pennsylvania History-Looking & Learning, American Experiences, Pittsburgh & Pennsylvania, and Presenting Pittsburgh: Past & Present
8.3 United States History-American Experiences, Looking & Learning, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Pittsburgh & Pennsylvania, and Presenting Pittsburgh: Past & Present
8.4 World History-Looking & Learning, Famous Artists, European Experiences, Impressionism, Exploring Ancient Greece & Rome, Athena to Zeus, Impressionism, and Symbols & Stories in Art

Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
1.2 Reading Critically in all Content Areas-all tours
1.3 Analyzing and Interpreting-all tours and all gallery-studio programs
1.4 Types of Writing-Art & Writing and all tours with the guided viewing activity
1.6 Speaking and Listening-all tours and all gallery-studio workshops
1.8 Research-all tours with the guided viewing activity

Mathematics
2.3 Measurement and Estimation-Geometry, Proportion and Ratio
2.4 Mathematical Reasoning and Connections-Geometry, Proportion and Ratio
2.5 Mathematical Problem-Solving and Communication-Geometry, Proportion and Ratio

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