Table of Contents

Five Museums

• Contact Information
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Barnes Foundation
• The Fabric Workshop and Museum
• Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Before Your Visit

• Pre-Visit Tips
• KWL Chart
• Brainstorm Web: Art can be...
• Checklist: Art can be...
• When I visit the art museum, I want to...
• What do you think you will see in the art museum?
• Map Activity: Great places to see art
• Guidelines for Good Art Museum Visitors

During Your Visit

• Museum Visit Tips
• Sample of Museum Journal

After Your Visit

• Post-Visit Tips
• Memory Web: What did you see at the art museum?
• Memory Web: What did you do at the art museum?
• Postcards: Describe and draw your favorite works of art
• An artist can be...
• What materials and tools do artists use?

Supplemental Activities

• Image Resource Activity Sheets
• Writing and Discussion Activities
• Connections to 4th-Grade Reading/Language Arts Program

Reference Materials

• Links to The School District of Philadelphia’s Core Curriculum for Literacy and Visual Arts, Grade 4