Tour Objective: Learn how artistic production is influenced when two or more cultures meet and exchange ideas and aesthetic values. This tour can complement classroom studies in many different areas, such as geography, history, social studies, artistic expression, and art analysis and interpretation.
Tour Objective: See Christian saints, Jewish heroes, Muslim rulers, Buddhas and bodhisattvas, Daoist immortals, Greek and Roman deities, and African kings and deities. Explore the varied ways humans have used works of art to express their religious or spiritual beliefs in global cultures.
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Tour Objective: This tour introduces visitors to the arts of China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and India. The tour examines what we can learn about culture and history from careful observation and discussion of Asian artworks and also introduces aesthetic principles that show what these cultures value in the production of art.
Tour Objective: The purpose of this tour is to guide visitors to see how different artists have used the same visual elements in countless variations to create unique works of art. It examines how the artist’s choices affect the viewer’s experience of the work.
Tour Objective: To engage visitors in looking at a broad overview of the art of indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America from ancient times to the present, and to give visitors an understanding of the diverse cultures and histories of these peoples.
Anishinaabe to Zapotec – Native Arts of the Americas
Below is the updated cultural considerations handout, to review before touring the Americas Galleries:
Art of the Americas – Cultural Considerations 2017
Tour Objective: By looking at real and imaginary animals in art, help children discover the many ways animals, or ideas about animals, have been used throughout time and in many different places.
Tour Objective: This tour introduces visitors to the diversity of the museum’s collections by showing them a sampling of our most celebrated objects.
Absolutely Fabulous – Highlights of the Institute’s Collection final
Tour Objective: This tour explores the rich diversity of African art through close study of masks, textiles, sculptures, and other objects from various parts of the continent. The collection is strong in the areas of West and Central Africa; however, be sure to include objects representing other regions as well (East, South, and North Africa–which includes Egypt and Morocco).
Also attached are tips for touring the African Galleries:
Tour Objective: To look closely at art objects made by numerous ancient cultures to discover common aesthetic and practical concerns, and to examine how such factors as environment and technology influenced art production.
Tour Objective: This tour introduces visitors to the museum’s European collection, from the Middle Ages to the mid-18th century.