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Our many tour options cover a wide variety of needs and we are happy to further customize these tours to fit with your educational goals. Tours are listed below with suggested grade levels and time length along with a description. For information about IDOE academic standards, download the PDF for each tour of interest.
Be sure to consider the studio experiences with our artists in-residence that can be added to your tour. |
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Animals All Around tour
K-Second grade students (45 minutes in galleries)
Look for animals in art and artifacts. How do artists make us feel about animals?
What fascinating art pieces include animals as subjects? Prepare students for lots of stopping, talking, listening and hands-on items.
American Indians Long Ago and Now tour
K-second grade students (45 minutes in galleries)
Explore ideas about Native American communities. Understanding about living and learning together and similarities and differences among people and environments will be covered during tours focused on the Native American art and artifacts. Visits may be combined with studio sessions or storytelling.
Family & Community Native American tour *
Third grade (60 minutes in galleries)
An overview on past and contemporary Native Peoples, starting with the first community, family, and family roles and responsibilities.
* Note: Ask to schedule additional time for a teacher-guided visit; add a student journaling/writing/sketching/discussion segment to a cooperative-learning plan so additional English/Language Arts and Science Academic Standards will be met.
Woodlands Focus tour
Fourth grade (60 minutes in galleries)
Visit sections of the Native American galleries, but spend more time in Mihtohseenionki (the Peoples Place), where we concentrate on the art, history and cultures of the Miami, Potawatomi, Delaware and other Native peoples of the Indiana region to meet fourth grade IDOE Academic Standards. The Mihtohseenionki Teachers’ Resource Guide is available for free download on our website.
North American Indians, We Are the People tour
Third, fourth, fifth and eighth grades (60 minutes in galleries)
Guides will help students compare Native American resources, traditional environments, art and cultures. View artifacts on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. This tour is IDOE Academic Standards-based, aligned with the visual arts, language arts and social studies subjects. Older students and adults will enjoy this tour too.
Discovery tour
Third grade and older. (60 Minutes in galleries)
Give students a well-rounded orientation to the Eiteljorg Museum’s exhibitions and collection highlights. Special exhibitions can be included.
All tours below are third grade and older (includes tours for pre-service and in-service educators and life-long learners at university level).
The following tours are especially easy to customize. Have an idea? Give us a call and we will try to help work it out with you.
Native Americans Then and Now
Visit core galleries and special exhibitions. Teachers should relay to our staff areas of curriculum focus.
Art of the American West
Painting and sculpture focus can include contemporary, Gund and/or Art of the American West galleries.
Special Exhibitions
We have guides who can focus on the special exhibitions galleries. Guides can also provide a tour that combines portions of a special exhibition with the museum's traditional fine art collections within the one hour time frame.
What’s Going On Here?
Thinking and talking about art. Facilitated discussion using Thinking Through Art Curriculum and discussion questions and Visual Thinking Strategies. No prior art knowledge is necessary for a grand time talking about what is seen.
(See www.vue.org for more information.)
Themed-Tours
Teachers’ suggested tour topics are always welcomed; please let our staff know your needs when you schedule. Guided tours can include quotations and other verbal responses and journaling time. Examples of tours we’ve customized in the past include: Women in the West; Economics/Trade; Transportation; and contemporary Native American art.
Teacher-guided Visit
We're here to help if you want to plan your own experience. We do need to know what galleries you will be counting on for your students' experience, so please be sure to schedule this just like any other tour. And we'll need to rely on you to help with some basic rules of the gallery experience - for instance, that students are not allowed to bring ink pens. Also please remember that youth groups must be chaperoned. Details are available on the Plan Your Visit>School Groups page.
Artist in Residence
30 – 60 minutes (additional cost depends on media; may be grant funded and then costs will be waived)
Meet with a visiting artist. Your students might make something to take home or will work on a community artwork. Ask for details.
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