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The Hood Museum of Art welcomes school groups to explore the world of art!
Tours of our permanent collection and changing exhibitions are available to school groups and the public, free of charge. Museum staff members develop tours with the goals of introducing students to a museum experience, actively engaging them with original works of art, and improving their visual literacy.
The schedule of school tours is updated on this page each season during the school year. If you would like to receive information about our tours and other programs directly via our mailings and email announcements, please contact the Education Department at hood.museum.tours@dartmouth.edu.
Learn more about our exhibitions.
October 18, 2011, through March 11, 2012
Discussion-based tours of Native American Art at Dartmouth will help students learn about a diverse range of historic and contemporary Native North American cultures and perspectives. Organized by geographic region, it includes over 160 works of art from the Arctic, Northwest Coast, Southeast, Woodlands, Northern, Central and Southern Plains, the Prairie, and the Southwest. In addition to baskets, beadwork, clothing, pottery, and personal objects dating primarily from the second half of the nineteenth century, the exhibition features an impressive selection of contemporary Native American photography, sculpture, and painting. Works of art in the exhibition reflect the values and experiences of specific culture groups, including relationship to place, ceremonial and everyday functions of objects, and issues of adaptation and survival. The exhibition presents Native American voices of today through videos of current Dartmouth students, alumni, and curators.
This tour is recommended for students of all ages.
This exhibition is rich in curricular connections and supports the NH Frameworks and VT Standards in the areas of local, US and World history, social and cultural history, economics, geography, environment, diversity, identity, conflict and resolution, and world views and value systems reflected through artistic expression.
Ongoing through winter 2012
The Hood Museum of Art galleries currently feature works of art from the ancient world, including the cultures of Assyria, Greece, Rome, China, and Egypt. Tours of these collections provide the opportunity for students to engage with these objects as primary documents, understand what sculptures, pottery, paintings and objects from daily life can tell us about these ancient civilizations, and discuss how they continue to influence us today. Inquiry- and activity-based tours can include all or some of the cultures described above.
This tour is recommended for students of all ages.
Tours of the exhibition support the NH Frameworks and VT Standards by providing students the opportunities to:
• increase knowledge of exemplary works in the arts from a variety of cultures and historical periods
• increase their skills for analyzing and evaluating the visual arts
• gain understanding of the cultural expressions that are characteristic of particular groups
• use primary resources in building original historical interpretations
In this tour, students will look at and discuss a range of works that span different countries, time periods, and media. It provides a wonderful introduction to museums and the art in the Hood's collections and can be shaped to respond to the interests of your students. Teachers can discuss options when they call to schedule the tour.
This tour is recommended for students of all ages.
Originally part of the decorative scheme of the Northwest Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE) in what is now known as Nimrud, Iraq, the six large-scale reliefs depict a ritual performance undertaken by the king. Human and supernatural beings are also in attendance. Through these works of art, students can learn about history, religion, politics, and cuneiform (the earliest form of writing).
This tour is recommended for students of all ages. A teacher packet and CD-ROM of images is currently available.
Located in Baker-Berry Library; always on view
José Clemente Orozco, one of the three most famous Mexican muralists, came to Dartmouth in the early 1930s and painted the fresco cycle The Epic of American Civilization in Baker Library. In this mural, Orozco depicted his interpretation of the history of the Americas, from ancient Aztec culture through the arrival of Cortéz and into the early twentieth century. Tours of this dynamic work addresses issues of class, cultural conflict, education, religion, and power.
This tour is recommended for students in grades six and above. A teacher packet and CD-ROM of images is available.
