Make MoMA artworks and teaching methods part of your classroom and curriculum. MoMA offers professional development workshops and online resources that will give you tools and tips to guide your students to look closely, discuss art, and think critically.
Bring new art and ideas to your classroom and curriculum.
For creative prompts, follow @MoMALearning on Twitter or like the MoMA K–12 Teachers Facebook page.
Mondays with MoMA
Simple, fun, and adaptable activities inspired by an artwork in MoMA’s collection, delivered to your inbox.
Videos for Teachers and Students
Videos including lessons for students about themes and ideas in MoMA’s collection and recorded professional development sessions for teachers.
Short video prompts inspired by MoMA’s collection and artists’ processes
Dorothea Lange’s Pictures of Children
Dig deeper into Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures using this resource for students, teachers, and families.
Jacob Lawrence Migration Series
This site offers resources for exploring Lawrence’s legacy and the impact of the Great Migration on American culture, politics, and society.
Watch this video, Storytelling through Art, which takes inspiration from the Migration Series. For kids 9-14.
MoMA offers free online courses designed for K–12 classroom teachers and any other educators who want to learn about modern and contemporary art and develop their pedagogical skills: Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies for Your Classroom, Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art, and Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes. Visit Coursera to learn more.
Whether you’re are a teacher, student, or lifelong learner, MoMA Learning is your destination for tools and strategies for engaging with modern and contemporary art. Download and customize slide shows, worksheets, and other resources for use in the classroom or for independent study.
MoMA’s online collection includes many artists and objects from MoMA’s departments of Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Photography, Prints and Illustrated Books, Film, and Media and Performance.
Destination Modern Art is an online intergalactic journey: Travel to MoMA and MoMA PS1 with an alien creature! For kids ages five to eight.
Gain insight on how to teach with artworks from MoMA’s collection.
Summer Teacher Institute
Learn techniques for analyzing and interpreting modern and contemporary art in New York City’s premier art museums. This summer institute for educators of grades 3–12 (all subject areas) is cohosted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Participants will learn and apply object-based teaching strategies; build confidence incorporating modern and contemporary art into lesson plans; and utilize great works of art as the basis for interdisciplinary investigations.
Bring new art and ideas to your classroom and curriculum.
Summer 2021 dates will be announced in early 2021.
Let MoMA teach you how to incorporate modern and contemporary art in your classroom. Our customized workshops introduce you to our educational approach, address themes and questions that arise in response to modern and contemporary art, and help you to think creatively about interdisciplinary links to your curriculum. Through in-gallery modeling, teachers will explore the content and context of works of art, and experience ways interactions with art support teaching and learning standards.
Customized teacher workshops are suspended until 2021.
Enrich your curriculum and integrate MoMA’s galleries as an extension of your classroom. Project Passes allow New York City high school students (age 17 and up) free admission to the Museum in order to conduct independent research that connects to classroom content.
Contact Teacher Programs
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Volkswagen of America is proud to be MoMA’s lead partner of education.
Generous support for School and Teacher Programs is provided by the Carroll and Milton Petrie Education Program Endowment, the William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund, and the Mimi and Peter Haas Endowment Fund for Elementary School Programs.
Additional funding is provided by the Ducommun and Gross Family Foundation and by the Annual Education Fund.