Skilled volunteers lead the one-hour tours. Tours are interactive and hands-on experiences are included as often as possible. Our guides do want to know in advance your goals for the visit, so please tell us where you are in your curriculum when you call. If you want to spend additional time in the galleries after the guided tour please arrange that with our education coordinator when you call to schedule your visit.

For scheduled student groups, admission is $3 for each student and adult escort. For students younger than the third grade, we require two adult chaperones per 10 children. Otherwise, one adult per 10 students is required. Reservations must be made by phone three weeks in advance for guided tours and 10 days in advance for teacher-guided tours at (317) 275-1350, press one at the prompt. Payment by cash, check, Visa or MasterCard is due on arrival. Please plan to arrive a few minutes before the tour time.

TCU Transportation Grants are available for the 2007-2008 school year. Call (317) 275-1350 and press one at the prompt to learn more.

The Eiteljorg Museum is able to provide a sack lunch area. Use of this space must be scheduled along with your visit. The sack lunch area can seat approximately 60 students at a time.

Here are some options to consider when planning your trip to the Eiteljorg:

Tour length: one hour
Give students a well-rounded orientation to the Eiteljorg’s exhibitions and collection highlights. Appropriate for 3rd grade and older. Please make you group reservation at least three weeks in advance by calling our education department at (317) 275-1350, and press 1 at the prompt.

Tour length: one hour
Visit all of the Native American galleries, but take more time to focus in Mihtohseenionki (The People’s Place), where we concentrate on the art, history and cultures of the Indiana region. Ask for a free Mihtohseenionki poster to take back to the classroom. Download the “Mihtohseenionki Teachers’ Resource Guide” for free. It provides valuable information to help you make the most of this tour.

Guides will emphasize art, history and cultures while interpreting the Native American collections. For grades three, four, five and eight, the tour is IDOE Academic Standards-based related to the visual arts, language arts and social studies standards. Older students and adults will enjoy this tour, too. See what Native cultures are represented inside the museum here: tribes' and nations' artifacts.

Student groups who visit the museum on their own but schedule at least three weeks in advance are eligible for the group tour rate. Student groups under 18 years of age are required to have one adult supervisor (teacher) for each 10 students and must stay together under adult supervision.

We’re here to help if you want to plan your own experience. We do need to know if you plan on drawing in the galleries. Please note that ink pens are not allowed. Please call for a scheduled time to take advantage of group rates. Scheduled full-time students, including adults, can receive the student discount.

When planning a visit for your class, consider taking advantage of one of the many special exhibitions that we have to offer. We have guides who can focus on the special exhibitions or schedule the one-hour tour time to cover portions of the special exhibitions as well as the museum’s traditional fine art collections.

To get more information about a tour, or to schedule a visit, please call our education department at (317) 275-1350, and press 1 at the prompt. Be ready to tell us the number of students, date(s) to consider, contact information and anything that we can pass along to the museum guides.

Schedule a cultural art experience for your students. Students have an opportunity to learn while creating artwork inspired by a museum theme in the museum’s art studios. Seasonal programs, such as Fiesta! in December, are also held in the studios. These experiences can be arranged for kindergarten through adult students. Combination tour and studio programs are also available. Studio programs are limited to one classroom group, 30 students maximum. Below are some suggested studio programs:

• Where’d They Get the Beads?

  This combination tour and studio experience is recommended for those students learning about Early Native American cultures and trade (This program fits just right with the fifth-grade social studies and other IDOE Academic Standards.) Students will make beads in the studio portion. The bead-making studio is limited to one class, 30 students or less, each hour. Tour and studio experience is 90 minutes. $4 per participant.

We want to help make your school visit meaningful and become your resource for information about the West and Native Americans. Tell us how you plan to connect your curriculum to your visit. Let us know if you’re searching for resources, and we will direct you to materials developed for past exhibitions and programs.