Tour Topics and Themes

Your Story Our Story tour

Here is a description of the Your Story, Our Story tour given to Roosevelt High School students:

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Your Story, Our Story is a program developed by the Tenement Museum in New York. This is information from heila McGuire, Head of Student and Teacher Learning:

“Your upcoming “Your Story, Our Story” tour for Roosevelt high school freshman will help them prepare  for writing their own immigration/migration/identity object-based stories in class at school.

As a partner school, we provide curriculum and the bus transportation for the tours to  to explore how objects can help tell stories. The focus of our tours is how objects can tell stories about immigration, migration, and identity. In the past  we have used artworks including Sully’s George Washington, Bears Hearts’ ledger drawings, the Somali basket, Judaica (Estel Berman’s Seder plate is awesome), Cy Thao’s paintings, The Howard desk, and the Ivar Kvalen Norwegian chest, to name a few. There are several new works out right now that will be great to include such as the Frank Bowling’s “False Start” painting and Roger Shimamura’s “American Guardian” lithograph. Docents came up with great ideas for these tours last year and will have to again since so many of you will be touring at the same time.

Here is a link to the Tenement Museum website: https://yourstory.tenement.org/ . Here is a link to Mia’s partner page: https://yourstory.tenement.org/partners/mia .”

These are materials shared by the docents who gave the tours:

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MPS Partnership Tours 2019/2020

Here are some documents to use in developing the 2019/2020 MPS Partnership Tours, with the new tour focus on Human Connections:

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Social Awareness and Self Awareness as described by the Minnesota Department of Education

Here is a racial/ethnic breakdown of the Minneapolis Public Schools:

mps_fall2018_racial_ethnic_by_school_by_grade for MPS Tours

Here are the meeting notes:

Human Connections tours for third graders Meeting Notes

Here is the tour description, with suggested objects:

Human Connections

If you have other objects to share which worked well on the MPS tours, please email Kara directly with those suggestions to post.

Here is some information from Kathleen on artist Joan Brown:

Joan Brown Portrait of a Girl – 2018.21

 

 

 

 

 

Mysteries in the Museum Tour

From Docent Anna Bethune, “Works well especially with grades four through eight.
Set the tone by talking about the Museum being like a time machine that can enable us to travel through time and through space – the engine of the time machine is our imagination.”

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Monuments Men tour

If you were interested in pulling together a tour linked to World War II and the Monuments Men, check out the links below to a great blog on the objects in our collection that are connected to this period of history:

Honoring the Monuments Men, art saviors of World War II, with a self-guided tour at the MIA (Part I)

Honoring the Monuments Men, art saviors of World War II, with a self-guided tour at the MIA (Part II)

Rovezzano’s bust of St. John the Baptist is on the right in this 1945 photo of Nazi war loot in the Alt Aussee salt mines. ©TopFoto / The Image Works

 

Day in the Life of a Muse tour outline

From the Let’s Talk Tours study group, a tour theme on muses, “Day in the Life of a Muse.” Here’s the introduction to the theme:

This tour led to some very interesting discussions about what is a muse, different types of
muses, sexual or nonsexual, men and women, perhaps places. There was discussion about artists who were muses for one another and their tempestuous relationships, some beautifully inspirational and some very sad.

Tour Theme on Muses

Flyover Land tour outline

From your colleague Karen Kletter, a tour outline and supporting documents, with the following introduction:

“To people who live on the East and West Coasts (Florida, New York, California) WE live in
Flyover Land. All the states you ‘fly over’ on a flight from NYC to LA. People on those
airplanes look down and see endless farm fields or tiny towns or vast mountains. But we know there is more to this place we call home. Based on MIa’s collection we’re going to take a tour of Flyover Land.”

Flyover Land tour_Karen Kletter PDF

Flyover land_ Alec Soth

Flyover Land_Shinique Smith Bale Variant

Academic Arts to Impressionism

Let’s Talk Tours, April 16, 2019
Jim Allen, “The Bumpy Road from Academic Art to Impressionism”
Focus was the 1800’s and what was happening historically, socially, artistically. The topic proved to be too big to include the World so Jim narrowed it down to primarily France. See the detailed tour outline below and supporting documents, including some photo props:

Academic Art to Impressionism

Cecelia Beaux, Mrs. Beauveau Borie and Her Son, Adolphe

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Salon Carre

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Delacroix’s experiments with color

Delacroix’s notes on color

 

 

 

 

 

Tour of Dutch Republic Art

From your colleague Linda Krueger, a detailed tour outline for the tour she developed entitled “Middle Class Takes Over Art World. Dutch Republic, 17th Century.” In this document, you will find loads of great information on the time of the Dutch Republic and how our art reflects that time:

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