Shared Tour Outlines

Highlights of Mia’s Collection

Tour Break, 1.27.22 recording:

Highlights tours for school and adult audiences

Here are the tour presentation slides:

Sheila’s slides for younger students:

Highlights of Mia’s Collection for K-5 in person tours slide deck

Debbi’s slides for older students//adults:

Highlights of Mia’s Collection_Gr 6-12_in person

 

Key ideas and suggested questions:

Highlights of Mia’s Collection for K-5 in-person tour

Highlights of Mia’s Collection Gr 6-12 key ideas and questions

Your Story Our Story tour

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

YSOS Mia branded STUDENT

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.”

Mysteries in the Museum_Bethune

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