Getty Villa Museum 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 Villa Museum
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.
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
Coming Soon!
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.
In-Person Self-Guided Tour Resources
Grades 9–12
Coming soon!