Getty Center Field Trip Learning Resources
Pre-Visit Resources
Prepare your students to engage deeply with artworks in the museum through pre-visit activities that foster observation, interpretation, and communication skills.
Grades K–2
Be an Art Detective at the Getty Center!
Invite your students to build observation and critical thinking skills by looking closely, asking questions, and using visual clues to make meaning from works of art.
Help your students connect their own treasured belongings to the museum's role in preserving objects that tell stories and hold meaning.
Grades 3–5
Develop your students’ observation, evidence-based reasoning, and discussion skills as they practice analyzing artworks like curators and learning from multiple perspectives.
Prepare your students to explore how museum objects tell stories by creating personal time capsules with objects that reflect their identities, interests, daily lives, and communities.
Grades 6–8
Invite your students to create and share a personal artwork that expresses their ideas, experiences, and interests, giving them firsthand insight into how artists use creative choices to convey meaning.
Engage your students in a hands-on conservation activity to develop a personal understanding of why people value, protect, and preserve works of art.
Post-Visit Resources
Extend your students' learning beyond the field trip through post-visit activities that encourage reflection, creativity, and critical thinking.
Grades K–2
Engage your students in collaborative artmaking that transforms individual field trip memories into a shared experience to encourage reflection, strengthen observation, and inspire new questions and insights.
Grades 3–5
Develop students’ reflection, communication, and discussion skills as they share, explain, and lead conversations about their favorite part of the field trip.
Grades 6–8
Help students practice creative, organizational, and critical thinking skills as they create and curate a themed art exhibition that communicates a big idea.
Self-Guided Tour Resources for Grades 9–12 (Coming Soon!)
Invite your students to explore art through observation, sketching, and conversation, helping them discover how artists communicate ideas and stories while developing their own interpretations of artworks.
Photography: The Power of Visual Storytelling
Students will analyze how photographers use light, composition, color, and space to create compelling images, interpret stories within photographs, and reflect on how personal experiences shape the meanings they find in artworks.
Modern Sculpture: Exploring New Perspectives
Students will explore how modern sculpture challenged traditional ideas about art, develop personal interpretations of artworks, and investigate how different aspects of sculpture shape the way we experience and understand it.
19th-Century Painting
Coming soon