Tours  |  Workshops  |  Spring Field Days

At the Fenimore Art Museum, the Education Department provides guided tours and interactive workshops that make learning about art and history exciting. Our permanent collections include a wide variety of American art, including folk art, Hudson River School landscapes, and one of the most impressive American Indian art collections in the country.

The Fenimore Art Museum offers orientation visits for teachers who wish to view the museum and work directly with its educators to develop topics and related materials prior to their students’ visit.

Call us to sign up for one of our tours and workshops. All of our programs meet New York State Learning Standards in social studies, the arts, and others.

FENIMORE ART MUSEUM TOURS

Program is one to two-hours in length, includes pre-visit preparatory materials and allows for self-guided discovery before or after the tour.
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Art and History: A View Through the Past
Grades: pre-K to 2nd | Duration: 1 – 1½ hour tour

Look & Learn: Objects & Their Stories
Grades: pre-K to 2nd | Duration: 1 hour

FARMERS' MUSEUM TOURS

Step back in time with your students and experience life in the 1840s through a series of one- to two-hour tours of the museum. Each tour group visits five buildings in the village and experiences at least one hands-on activity.
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1 - Mother Goose Goes to the Farm
Grades: pre-K to 2nd | Duration: 1 hour

2 - Ox Cart Man
Grades: pre-K to 2nd | Duration: 1 Hour

3 - Farmer Boy
Grades: Third - High School | Duration: 2 hours

4 - Simple Machines and the Use of Mathematics in 1845
Grades: Third - High School | Duration: 2 hours

5 - Tradesman's Tool Chest
Grades: Third - High School | Duration: 2 hours

6 - Iroquois Life Tour
Grades: 4th to 12th | Duration: 2 Hours