School Programs 2007 - 2008

* Trips for General Education, Inclusion and ELL Classes
   - The Panorama of the City of New York Trips
   - Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass Trips
   - Changing Exhibition Trips
* How to Schedule Trips, supplements and Residencies
* Museum-School Partnerships

* Trips for General Education, Inclusion and ELL Classes

Class trips and other programs for students with special needs should be arranged directly through the museum’s Art Access program. 718 592 9700 x136.

Inclusion class teachers are encouraged to first phone the museum’s Art Access program to allow us to provide the most successful trips for all students in your group. For more information, please call 718 592 9700 x136.

Trips to the Queens Museum of Art offer an excellent way to supplement curriculum through engaging interactions with the museum’s collectionand exhibitions. The museum’s educators tailor each visit to be developmentally appropriate and educationally stimulating for each class.

The Panorama of the City of New York Trips
The jewel in the crown of the museum’s collection, this 9,335 squarefoot architectural model of all five boroughs includes every singlebuilding constructed before 1992 totalling 895,000 individual structures. Museum tours and art studios explore New York City’s geography, famous sites, bridges, parks, history and urban planning.

Please choose from one of the three options below. Guided Exhibition Tours without Studios or Gallery Activities are oftenavailable upon request.

Guided Exhibition Tour & Art Studio:
1st - 12th grades, Mondays - Fridays, 10 am - 12 pm or 10:30 am - 12:30 pm,$150 per class.  Studios (please choose one):

Nightscapes: 1st - 4th grades – Students create nighttime city skylines with avariety of patterned and textured papers.

City Blocks: 2nd - 8th grades – Students create three-dimensional city blocksusing a variety of materials.

Bridges: 4th - 12th grades – Working in teams, students construct a three-dimensional suspension bridge.

Guided Exhibition Tour & Gallery Activity:
1st - 6th grades, Mondays - Fridays, 10:30 am - 12 pm, $75 per class
In the museum’s galleries students design and construct temporary three-dimensional communities using wooden blocks on fabric outlines of the five boroughs. Please note that students do not take this project back to school.

Self-Guided Tours:
1st- 12thgrades, Wednesdays - Fridays, 12:30 pm & after; Suggested Donation of $50 per class

Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass Trips
Since 1995 the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass has partnered with the Queens Museumof Art. In a permanent gallery featuring changing exhibitions, students explore how Louis Comfort Tiffany captured nature and transformed it into beautiful lamps and windows of exquisite color and fine detail. Tours and art studios explore Tiffany in an historical andcultural perspective.

Guided Exhibition Tour & Art Studio
Please choose from one of the two options below. Guided Exhibition Tours without Studios are often available upon request.

Pre-K & K, Mondays-Fridays, 10 am - 11:30 am, $110 per class
Students discover Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glassthrough a variety of hands on experiences designed to address the developmental and learning needs of young children. Children participate in activities such as storytelling, movement exercises and hands on art making thatfocus on pre-literacyskills such as shapes, colors and pattern recognition as well ascreativity and self-expression. Students will have the occasion to briefly visit other exhibitions.

1st - 6th grades, Mondays - Fridays, 10 am - 12 pm or 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, $150 per class
In conjunction with a guided discussion in the Tiffany gallery, students construct faux stained glass window panes using construction paper, transparency paper and collage materials in the studio.

Self-Guided Tours
1st - 12th grades, Wednesdays - Fridays,12:30 pm & after, Suggested Donation of $50 per class

Changing Exhibition Trips

Fall
Generation 1.5
An exhibition highlighting the art of Generation 1.5ers, individuals who immigrated to the United States during their adolescence. Tours and art studios explore diverse cultural perspectives, immigration, cultural dislocation, memory and hybridity.

Yue Minjun and the Symbolic Smile
An exhibition of Chinese contemporary bronze and polychrome sculptures, paintings and drawings depicting smiling male figures. Tours and art studios allow people of all ages to see the many ways in which people express happiness.

Winter
New York States of Mind
An exhibition offering perspective on New York’s current art scene as well as on cultural policy and historical developments since the 1960s. Tours and art studios address migration, culture, the art trade, finance, corporate headquarters, the media and transportation.

Spring
The Flushing Remonstrance
Commemorating the 350th anniversary of the letter entitled Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Town of Flushing written by 30 English settlers to the governor of New Netherland, this exhibition explores religious tolerance as expressed both in the letter and today.

Please choose from one of the two options below. Guided Exhibition Tours without Gallery Activities are often available upon request.

Guided Exhibition Tour & Gallery Activity
1st - 12th grades, Mondays - Fridays, 10 am - 12 pm or 10:30 am - 12:30pm, $150 per class
In conjunction with a guided discussion in the galleries, students engage in art processes similar to those used by the artists on display to allow for a deeper understanding of the issues addressed by the art work.

Self-Guided Tours
1st - 12th grades, Wednesdays - Sundays, 12:30 pm & after, Suggested Donation of $50 per class

How to Schedule Trips, supplements and Residencies

To schedule a school trip or for more information please call (718) 592-9700 x132 or email: schooltrips@queensmuseum.org.
Independent and parochial schools are kindly asked to please schedule trips on public school bus maintenance days, when public school students are unable tovisit the museum. Program scheduling phone hours are Monday - Friday 9 am - 4 pm. If yourcall is unanswered please leave a detailed message and you will receive a return call within one day. Emails to schedule class trips will also be honored. However, they must contain all necessary information as listed below.

Please provide the following information when you contact us:
°The name of your school & preferred date of visit
°Grade of each class attending
°The number of classes (only two per day per program)
°The number of students in each class
°Teacher’s name, home/cell phone number & email address
°School address, phone & fax number of school
°What type of Program you prefer (Please choose from the programs within)
°What Collection or Changing Exhibition you would like your students to see
°Any additional comments you have to help tailor the program to your school curriculum

Please note the following when planning your program.
°Reservations must be made at least six weeks in advance. Please call early in the year for the Panorama or Tiffany Tour and Art Studio as it books very quickly.
°Once your trip is confirmed by the School and Family Education Assistant, you willreceive a confirmation letter and invoice that should be distributed to all the teachers
attending the museum trip.
°The confirmation letter and a copy of the invoice should be mailed back to us. Please keep the original white invoice copy for your records.
°Payment in full is due four weeks before your group is scheduled to visit. If payment does not reach us two weeks before your trip, the museum has the right to cancel your trip.
°Cancellations must be made at least four weeks prior to your scheduled visit. Payments are non-refundable, but may be credited towards your next visit.
°If your school does not attend the day that they are scheduled and there is nocancellation notice, the school is responsible for the full amount of the programs scheduled for that day.
°A teacher or group leader should check in with the museum staff before children enter the museum. We may not be able to accommodate an early arrival because of specific time scheduling. It is recommended that students remain on the bus until our staff allows admittance.
°Groups arriving more than 20 minutes late may forfeit part of their program. If your group is more than 20 minutes late, you may only be offered a Guided Tour withoutany Studio or Gallery Activities.
°We request the supervision of one adult for every 10 children. Teachers and other chaper ones are required to stay with their groups at all times and are responsible for their conduct and behavior.
°There are no lunch facilities at the museum. Picnicking is permitted in the park but please bring a large bag to collect trash. Lunches must be checked during the museum visit and each bag should be clearly marked with the student’s name.
°The museum shop offers a wide variety of reasonably priced items for children and adults. Pleaselet your educator know when you arrive that you would like to allot some time to visit the shop.

Museum-School Partnerships

For over ten years, the museum has partnered with individual schools to create initiatives specific to the interests and culture of the school. Partnerships range from multi-year residency programs to one-time family events at the museum. The museum encourages schools with available funding as well as schools interested in seeking additional grants including Parents as Arts Partners, to work with the museum in this special capacity. We thank those schools with whom we currently partner and with whom we have partnered in the recent past.