Field Trips

The ticketed exhibition Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak arrives in Denver this fall! On view October 13, 2024, through February 17, 2025, the show will feature more than 400 artworks spanning Sendak's entire 65-year career.

Schools will be able to choose between three packages (pricing forthcoming):

• Package A: Exhibition and Artmaking Workshop (available all week)
• Package B: Exhibition and Play (available on Wednesdays and Fridays)
• Package C: Exhibition only (available all week) or Play only (available on Wednesday and Friday)

Registration is open now.

*Regular school tour programming will also be available throughout the week

Extend your in-gallery learning and get creative with an art-making workshop. Each workshop is 1 hour long and can accommodate up to 30 students.

We will offer Maurice Sendak-inspired art workshops this fall in conjunction with Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak, a ticketed exhibition on view from October 13, 2024, through February 17, 2025.

Creative Explorers is an hour-long introductory tour for preschool students. During a Creative Explorers tour, students:

• Enjoy a learning experience that is appropriate for students of all levels and with diverse needs.
• Expand their understanding of artists, learning students can be artists, too, and have the power to make their own choices to turn any material into a piece of art!
• Are exposed to art from diverse cultures in a variety of media; and learn how artists use a variety of materials, colors and shapes, and their imaginations to make their art.
• Have an experience that they are excited about and that makes them want to return back to the DAM to share it with their friends and families.

Imagination Games is a one-hour introductory tour for kindergarten through second grade students. During Imagination Games students will:

• Enjoy a hands-on and accessible learning experience that is appropriate for diverse students of all levels and needs
• Expand their observation, comprehension and imagination abilities
• Be exposed to art from diverse cultures in a variety of media
• Develop familiarity with the museum and have an experience that they are excited about that makes them want to return to the DAM to share it with their friends and families

Perception Games is a one-hour introductory tour for third through fifth grade students. During Perception Games students will:

• Enjoy a hands-on and accessible learning experience that is appropriate for diverse students of all levels and needs
• Expand their observation, comprehension and perception abilities
• Be exposed to a variety of media and cultures in art
• Develop familiarity with the museum and have an experience that they are excited about that makes them want to return to the DAM to share it with their friends and families

Explore the collection with the earth in mind. Consider how environmental concerns are woven into the art making and viewing processes.

This Denver Art Museum field trip experience develops students’ ability to critically reflect on the multifaceted connections between environmentalism and art. Young people today live in an era of many challenges to the life-sustaining environments of our planet. This field trip offers opportunities to discuss both environmental impacts and activism in art. Through art viewing at the Denver Art Museum, this experience provides a dynamic way to supplement young people’s awareness of environmental issues, helps them make personal connections, and sparks interest in sustainability.

We now offer a robust choice of Art and Social Consciousness tours in just about every floor and collection. Choose from tours in the following exhibitions and galleries:

• The 19th Century in European and American Art
• Arts of Oceania Galleries
• Have a Seat: Mexican Chair Design Today (through November 3, 2024)
• Indigenous Arts of North America Galleries
• Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art Galleries

We can view art through many different lenses to explore our world and our identities. Art can reflect who we are and help us understand ourselves and others better.

This Denver Art Museum field trip experience supports young people’s social and emotional development journey by cultivating self-awareness, social awareness/empathy and self-regulation techniques. By investigating topics related to social emotional learning this experience assists young people to develop healthy identities, manage emotions, as well as feel and show empathy for others, all while building collaborative and trusting relationships between classmates, with chaperones and teachers as well as museum staff and volunteers.

We now offer a robust choice of Art and Social Consciousness tours in just about every floor and collection. Choose from tours in the following exhibitions and galleries:

• Arts of Africa Galleries
• Arts of Asia Galleries
• Have a Seat: Mexican Chair Design Today (through November 3, 2024)
• Indigenous Arts of North America Galleries
• Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art Galleries
• Western American Art Galleries

Explore ways objects and artworks display or challenge ideas about power and privilege. What is power? Who has power and why? What is your own power?

This Denver Art Museum field trip experience develops young people’s ability to critically reflect on power dynamics in society and grapple with social justice issues that are important to them. This field trip plants seeds of inquiry and offers students tools for contemplation. Students interrogate the complex topics of power and privilege, both of which intersect with all aspects of society, including art. Through this experience at the DAM, students develop themselves as responsible global citizens, with tools to disrupt and challenge systemic and individual issues when they see them.

We now offer a robust choice of Art and Social Consciousness tours in just about every floor and collection. Choose from tours in the following exhibitions and galleries:

• The 19th Century in European and American Art
• Arts of Asia Galleries
• Arts of Oceania Galleries
• Indigenous Arts of North America Galleries
• Latin American Art Galleries
• Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art Galleries

Some artworks are designed to be both functional as well as beautiful. Explore the galleries with design in mind and consider the choices and steps designers take in their creative process.

Design Field Trip Goals:

• Consider the intersection of function and beauty in a variety of artworks
• Imagine multiple iterations of an object
• Examine the choices designers might have made while creating some of the objects in the galleries

We now offer a robust choice of Design Thinking tours in just about every floor and collection. Choose from tours in the following exhibitions and galleries:

• Architecture & Design Galleries and Design Studio
• Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (September 8, 2024, through January 12, 2025)
• Have a Seat: Mexican Chair Design Today (through November 3, 2024)
• Indigenous Arts of North America Galleries
• Modern & Contemporary Art Galleries
• Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art Galleries

We welcome you to explore the museum on your own as well! We have resources available and activities to do both at the museum and at home to supplement your next visit.