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Museum Education Department
  
Museum Education or 434.243.2050
TEACHERS K-12
Docent Program and Tours
Each year thousands of school children, university students, and adults from the central Virginia region tour the Museum through its active education program. Rigorously-trained docents lead tours specially tailored to the age and interests of each group.

Teacher Seminars
Area art teachers and high school faculty participate in a series of seminars designed to familiarize teachers with learning theories and methods of teaching with objects in conjunction with the Museum's collections. These seminars are also designed to coordinate with the Virginia SOLs (Standards of Learning).

  Writer's Eye Program
The annual Writer’s Eye competition, organized by the Museum docents, is open to area students from grades 3 to 12, as well as university students and adults. Entries may be submitted in either prose or poetry in one of four categories – elementary school, middle school, high school, and university/adult.
Try Our Family Self-Guide
We encourage you to take our new family self-guided tour focusing on the paintings and sculpture in our Pine Room. Just pick up the brochure inside the room and use it with your children to find and examine a few of our favorite pictures in the gallery. It may also be taken home and colored.

This project has been funded by the Young Friends of the Museum. Please let us know what you think about this learning tool, which will serve as a model for self-guided tours of our other collections galleries.

 

   Early Visions
Early Visions, developed for at-risk high school students, is designed to provide rising 10th graders with a unique experience within the museum relating not only to their curriculum but also providing them with in-depth connections with their University student docent mentors. Students presented their mentors with a book about one of the works of art in the museum’s collection. The mentors worked with the students on their assignment for eight weeks in the spring. During their visits, the Early Visions students also experienced other areas of the museum with senior community docents and enjoyed a drum lesson with Darryl Rose, a local African drum teacher.