Videos

Safety and Security training with Ross Guthrie

Here is the video of our safety and security training with Mia’s Director of Security, Ross Guthrie:

Safety training with Ross Guthrie 3.15.23

Here is the procedure that Ross discusses in his talk, including the list of safe places on each floor, in the facilities lockdown update:

Facilities Lockdown Procedure Updates revised 7.16.18

A separate message is being sent to ask guides to join the museum’s Omnilert system. This system sends emergency alerts as well as weather closures to your cell phone. If you miss the deadline included in that message and wish to be part of the Omnilert system, contact Kara and Debbi directly.

Miao textiles and silver jewelry/hats

From Wikipedia: According to the 2000 censuses, the number of ‘Miao’ in China was estimated to be about 9.6 million. The Miao nationality includes Hmong people as well as other culturally and linguistically related ethnic groups who do not call themselves Hmong. These include the Hmu, Kho (Qho) Xiong, and A-Hmao. The White Miao (Bai Miao) and Green Miao (Qing Miao) are Hmong groups.

Here is something I found about the silver hats on display: Silver Ornaments of the Miao Ethnic Group
And an exhibition by the Bowers Museum, on Miao silver: https://www.bowers.org/index.php/current-exhibition/miao-masters-of-silver

A short video:

Miao Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

 

Resource page for Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes

This is our resource page for the Special Exhibition Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes

Exhibition runs: March 4, 2023 – May 21, 2023

Stop and Chat station scheduled Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 3 PM, March 9 to May 14, 2023.

Stop and Chat training video 3.7.23

Stop and Chat Eternal Offerings (1)

 

This show does not have labels or panels inside. Here are the three panels at the entrance to the show:

EO_Panels_FINAL

Here are the poems shown on the walls in the intro gallery:

EO_Poetry_Installed FINAL

Eternal Offerings info sheet:

Eternal Offerings Info Sheet for guides

Curator Yang Liu’s lecture on 2.16.23:

Eternal Offerings exhibition lecture

 

Exhibition Guide, describing the different rooms within the exhibition:

EO_Exhibition Guide_FINAL

Exhibition checklist:

This is online, available at this link.

Gallery layout:

See exhibition guide for description of layout.

 

Didactics for the Stop and Chat:

Timeline:

EO_Timeline_Diagram_

Map of Bronze Age China:

EO_BronzeAgeChinaMap

Typology of bronzes and handout with information:

Vessel_Types_Diagram_45x36_ChineseTransl

Chinese Bronze Vessels with image

 

Stop and Chat information

pronunciation guide (1)

Touch Props on Eternal Offerings Stop and Chat (1)

Chinese Bronze Age_rev

 

Digital resource page for the exhibition:

Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes

 

Collection of 3D scans of Mia bronzes:

Sketchfab scans

Annotated bronze scans

 

Chinese ritual bells (video provided by Yang Liu):

Bianzhong of Marquis Yi – Traditional Chinese Bells

 

Previous video on Mia’s Bronzes:

Chinese Bronzes, Of Us and Art: The 100 Videos Project, Episode 19

 

Information about Chinese art is posted in two locations on the guide website:

China Art Cart Manual and training (2017)

Class sessions on Chinese art from 20015/2016:

Ancient China/Japan, October 2015

Han to Tang China, January 2016

Han/Yuan, May 11 2016

Ming/Qing, September 2016

 

Resources shared by Mia Educators:

Chinese Art Timeline

Chinese ritual bronzes AI

From Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (MMA):

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/shzh/hd_shzh.htm

Orientations article by Yang Liu:

Yang Liu_Eternal Offerings_03Feb23

Orientations article by Matthew Welch:

Matthew Welch_Eternal Offerings_06Feb23

 

From the National Museum of Asian Art:

Bronze Age Casting

From the Metropolitan Museum, an exhibition guide:

The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Three short videos on bronze casting, good animations to illustrate casting process to visitors:

Harvard Online, shows how engravings achieved: How ancient Chinese bronzes were created

Asian Art Museum, better animation showing bronze flowing in: Casting Bronze Vessels: The Piece-mold Process

Art Institute of Chicago, shows how final vessel was golden: Mirroring China’s Past: The Piece Mold Process

From Khan Academy:

Shang Dynasty, an introduction (with bronzes discussed in a couple articles)

Zhou Dynasty, an introduction

From China.org.cn, some information on foods/drink prepared in the bronze vessels:

3,000 year old food for thought

 

Resources shared by guides:

From Mingjen Chen: Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn

From your colleague Manju Parikh, a short video on the taotie from PBS.

Tour Break: Winter Solstice December Cross Currents 11.17.22

Here is the recording of the training for the December 2022 Cross Currents public tour, Winter Solstice:

Tour Break: Winter Solstice December Cross Currents

Here is the chat:

Chat for December Cross Currents

Here are the presentation slides, with the resources:

Tour Break_ Winter Solstice Cross Currents

And here are the best practices for engagement from guides who have given multiple Cross Currents tours, and some information and reminders about the tour format:

Best Practices for Cross Currents tours

 

Required cultural fluency training on 11.9.22

Here is a recording of the training with Dr. Abdul Omari. This training video will only be accessible until January 15, 2023:

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Here is the participant guide from Dr. Omari:

Mia.ParticipantGuide

Here are the real scenarios we discussed:

Final draft with questions_ Scenarios for 11.9.22

 

If you attended the training, here is a link to the feedback form:

Feedback form for attendees to on-site training

 

If you were unable to attend the session, here is a link to the online training form, complete with feedback sections:

Online training and feedback form for those who were unable to attend the session

Form letters and lead guide checklists for adult tours (11.1.22)

Recording of Brown Bag session on 11.1.22, lead guide responsibilities:

Adult Guide lead guide responsibilities

Slides for Adult lead guide responsibilities:

Lead guide for Adult Tours

Tour contact letter:

Form letter to send adult tour contacts (rev 11.03.22)

Lead Guide Checklist:

Lead Guide Checklist for Adult Tours (rev. 11.03.22)

Map with tour route starting points:

Starting areas for routes of topic tours

 

Group Tour Guidelines:

English: LIN221358 Update Guided Tour Guidelines_FINAL

All 4 languages (Somali, Hmong, Spanish, and English):

Combined Guided Group Guidelines

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi resource page

Here is our resource page for our Fall 2022 special exhibition: Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi

October 16, 2022 – January 8, 2023

Tours will run October 25 to December 22.

As materials become available, we will post them here.

The recording of the exhibition lecture on October 11. Please note that the AV technician discovered a problem with the sound 10 minutes into the recording, so the first 10 minutes are without sound. The lecture by Eike Schmidt on October 16 is also being recorded, and we’ll provide a link to that recording when available:

Lecture with Rachel McGarry, Eike Schmidt, and Roberta Bartoli 10.11.22

Here is a link to the recording of the lecture by Eike Schmidt and Roberta Bartoli, on 10.16.22:

Living in Florence in the Age of Botticelli

CHECKLIST, with images of objects:

A-September Checklist – Botticelli and Renaissance Florence reduced

LABELS:

EUR221594_Botticelli_Uffizi_Labels_V6_FINAL_HiRes

PANELS:

EUR221592_Botticelli_Uffizi_VINYLTYPE_V6_FINAL_HiRes

 

Exhibition Layout:

Uffizi – OBJ ID per Registration_9-27-2022 r

Key for layout: BOTTICELLI IN MINNEAPOLIS_for Educator

 

Audio Tour Transcript:

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence_Audio Guide Transcript

and an information card on the audio tour: Audio Guide Card_Botticelli_Info Sheet

Catalog: digital version

mia_botticelli_DIGITAL low res reduced

Fact Sheet (updated on 10.31.22):

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence Info Sheet 10-31-22

Here is the Teacher’s Guide:

LIN221665-Botticelli-Teachers-Guide_FINAL

 

Here is the recording of our discussion of theme on October 20:

Botticelli theme discussion

Here are the slides:

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence_ themes

 

Here is the recording of our debrief session on November 22:

Botticelli guide check-in

 

 

Resources shared by Mia educators

The Uffizi website

(Including Pallas and the Centaur)

From the National Gallery of Art, a wonderful online resource on the Italian Renaissance:

Italian Renaissance Learning Resources

From Khan Academy, historical background on the Renaissance in Florence, as well as information on Botticelli and his most famous artworks:

General information on Italian Renaissance for Early, and High periods

Florence in the Early Renaissance

VIDEO: A celebration of beauty and love: Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

VIDEO: Botticelli, Primavera

Botticelli, Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo il Vecchio de’ Medici

Portraits and fashion: Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Woman

From ArtNews: From Medicis to Mythologies: How Sandro Botticelli Became One of History’s Most Influential Artists

From the Guardian about a previous Botticelli exhibition: The sword in the sky

 

Resources shared by guides

From the National Gallery of Art, a great video on metalpoint drawing: Metalpoint Drawing from Leonardo to Jasper Johns

From your colleague Bill Wilson, a recommendation for the PBS series, Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance.

From your colleague Terry Edam, a video from the Getty to connect to Botticelli’s training: “ In 1460 Botticelli’s father ceased his business as a tanner and became a gold-beater with his other son, Antonio. This profession would have brought the family into contact with a range of artists. Giorgio Vasari, in his Life of Botticelli, reported that Botticelli was initially trained as a goldsmith.”  Gold Ground Painting

From your colleague Lisa Mayotte, a video: Know the Artist: Sandro Botticelli

From Lyn Osgood, a book recommendation: Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance

From Regina Sindalovsky, a video from a previous Botticelli exhibition at MFA Boston: Botticelli: The Curator’s View

From Anna Bethune: Watch three season Netflix 2016 series on the Medici: “It shows the garden of st Marco with many familiar pieces and many of Boticelli and other paintings hanging on the walls of the Medici palace. I am sure this is very fictionalized but it helps place everyone and our Sandro B is a main character ( doesn’t look as I imagined him neither does Lorenzo) but it helps remember the context !”

From Meg Ubel, a Met Museum “spotlight” on a bronze sculpture of Spinario, link here.

From Diana Beutner, a great video from the Getty on how Renaissance artists used cartoons: Almost Invisible: The Cartoon Transfer

From Kat Christianson, a book recommendation: At Home in Renaissance Italy, by Marta Ajmar and Flora Dennis; Ms. Ajmar curated the related exhibition The Renaissance Home (2009) at the Victoria and Albert Museum and works in the V&A’s research department.

 

 

Peer training in Galleries 374 and 375, June 15, 2022

Jean Ann Durades, Rose Stanley-Gilbert, Mary Ann Wark presented on new works on view in Rituals of Resilience and Gallery 375. These are works all by Black artists. The training is 5 videos in total.

Peer training Part 1

Peer Training Part 2

Peer Training Part 3

Peer Training Part 4

Peer Training Part 5

Here are also supporting materials from their talks, along with some additional resources provided by other guides:

From Rose:

Gio Swaby, Pretty Pretty 3, 2020 WORD

Alfred Conteh – Sauce – WORD

From Mary Ann:

mia.James Phillips Cosmic Connection 1971 2022

mia. Wangechi Mutu

and with no questions/answers: mia. object file.Intertwinedwo anwers

 

Some information on Afrofuturism from Kay Miller:

Afro-Futurism Explained

Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse

StaffSavvy Training resource page

Welcome to our Resource Page for StaffSavvy, our tour scheduling system. As we continue to train on this system, we will post materials on this resource page.

Here is a link to the slides from our Info Sessions in November 2023:

Training 11.17.23 StaffSavvy session

Here is a link to the video for our refresher on Sept. 20, 2022:

StaffSavvy refresher 09.20.22

Here is a link to the slides:

Training 09.20.22 StaffSavvy session

 

Here is a direct link to StaffSavvy:

StaffSavvy

Here is the recording for our introduction on May 26, 2022, to the new scheduling system, StaffSavvy:

Introduction to tour assignments in StaffSavvy

Here is the chat file:

StaffSavvy chat 05.26.22

Here are the slides:

Training 5.26.22 StaffSavvy session

The three videos we sent out to introduce the system are here:

Video 1: Introduction and changing your password

Video 2: Updating your photo and profile

Video 3: How to do a checkout or leave request

To send a group message to multiple guides in StaffSavvy, go to My Account/My Messages, then select “Send a New Message” in the top menu bar. In the “To” line, you can enter multiple guide names. Click on “Send Message” to send the message. If you are uncertain if all guides in your tour assignment are using StaffSavvy messaging, you can use email addresses provided in the guide rosters.