Activities in the Museum

With a little creativity, these activities also work at home or in the classroom.

Family Guides

Our Family Guides will engage children, adults, and art lovers of all ages while exploring the Michener Art Museum and its galleries.

• Discover and Learn (.pdf, 842k)
• Looking at Sculpture (.pdf, 1.8mb)
• Offering of the Angels: Treasures from the Uffizi Gallery (.pdf, 2.92 mb)

Special Exhibit Activities

Now on view, The Mind’s Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann, through April 28, 2013. Below are activities created for this exhibition. Visit our Classroom Connections page for activities related to the classroom.

• Uelsmann Scavenger Hunt (.pdf, 176kb)
• Uelsmann Art Detective (.pdf,744kb)

These activities were created in conjunction with the exhibition, Offering of the Angels: Treasures from the Uffizi Gallery, which is now closed. Additional activities can also be found on our Classroom Connections page.

• Detail Detective: The Annunciation (.pdf, 268kb)
• Detail Detective: Rest on the Flight to Egypt (.pdf, 272kb)
• Detail Detective: The Nativity with the Shepherds (.pdf, 373kb)
  
• Detail Detective: Madonna and Child (.pdf, 256kb)
  
• Detail Detective: The Burial of Christ (.pdf, 298kb)
• Renaissance Symbol Guide (.pdf, 636kb)

These activities were created in conjunction with the exhibition, The Painterly Voice,  which is now closed. These contain a series of activities in looking at Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist works including Daniel Garber, William L. Lathrop, Fern Coppedge, Louis Stone, and others.

• Painterly Voice Looking Activities (.pdf, 1.3mb)

These activities were created in conjunction with the exhibition, To Stir, Inform and Inflame: The Art of Tony Auth.

• Exploring America’s History with Tony Auth (.pdf, 443k)
  

Drawing

• Create a Motive like William Lathrop (.pdf, 62k)
• Profile Portraits (.pdf, 175k)

Language Arts

• Every Picture Tells a Story (.pdf, 169k)
• Looking at Seascapes (.pdf, 243k)
• Portraits: Finding a Friend (.pdf, 45k)
• Taking Time to Look (.pdf, 121k)
• Write a Text Panel (.pdf, 124k)

Painting

• A Lasting Impression
• Art and History in a Painting
• William Lathrop: A Poetic Approach to Nature (.pdf, 78k)

Photography

• Composition: Close and Far
• Critical Analysis of a Photograph (.pdf, 150k)
• Every Picture Tells a Story (.pdf, 169k)
• The Camera Obscura
• The Composition of A Photograph (.pdf, 189k)
• Preserving Your Photographs
• Reading a Photograph (.pdf, 118k)
• Written Responses to Photos

Talking About Art

• Taking Time to Look (.pdf, 112K)
• Ten Ways to Use Art in Your Classroom (.pdf, 138k)
• Top Ten Questions to Ask About Art (.pdf, 153k)
• Top Ten Quotations About Art (.pdf, 185k)
• Top Ten Michener Works (.pdf, 199k)
• Top Ten Buildings (.pdf, 189k)
• Top Ten Artists for Preschool Students (.pdf, 250k)
• Top Ten Artists for K-3 Students (.pdf, 244k)
• Top Ten Artists for 4-6 Students (.pdf, 243k)
• Top Ten Artists for High School Students (.pdf, 245k)
• Top Ten Art Vocabulary Words for Preschool Students (.pdf, 197k)
• Top Ten Art Vocabulary Words for K-3 Students (.pdf, 198k)
• Top Ten Art Vocabulary Words for 4-6 Students (.pdf, 202k)
• Top Ten Art Vocabulary Words for Middle School Students (.pdf, 199k)
• 12 Questions to Ask About Contemporary Art (.pdf, 122k)