Education | School Programs

Core program

• Off the Wall Math: Geometry and Architecture at the Morgan. Through various activities relying on observation, logic, and problem solving, students will understand how, a hundred years apart, the architects Charles McKim and Renzo used geometry and patterns to communicate their ideas to the Morgan's visitors.
• Door to Door: Building the Morgan for a Changing Community. Students will read the Morgan's architecture as if it were a book on New York City's social history.
• Reading a Building: Mr. Morgan and His Library. Students will piece together a character portrait of Pierpont Morgan by looking at his magnificent library.
• Writing Matters: Writing Tools in Ancient World Communities. Students will relate local natural resources to trading, communicating, and writing in the ancient world from Asia to the Mediterranean.
• Mythical Creatures: Students will observe Mesopotamian seals' imagery, and through gallery activities and art projects, they will be introduced to ancient myths and symbols.
• Colors of the World: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Age of Exploration
  Students will step into Europe's past by reenacting skills and techniques that artists used to create the most exquisite medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Morgan's collections. They will delve into the art of Western illumination as a means of exploring early Eurasian and African trade routes.

Fall Exhibition Tour for Teens
Through the Fall, the Morgan will offer High School students educator-led tours of two exhibitions.

• Charles Dickens at 200 (September 23, 2011 through February 12, 2012) celebrating the bicentennial of the great writer's birth in 1812 with a vast array of primary sources.
• David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre (September 23 through December 31, 2011), which features a dazzling variety of techniques on paper by some of the most influencial French artists of the first half the Nineteenth Century.

Upcoming Spring programs
Through April and May, the Morgan will offer an additional school program created to coincide with In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan (March 2 through May 20) an exhibition examining the relationship of humans and animals as reflected in literature and the arts. The program will integrate visual literacy with the ELA and Social Studies curricula.

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