Curriculum Materials

The Curriculum Materials department produces and circulates educational resources for teachers and community leaders that focus on the Institute's collection.

Online Materials
Take a moment to explore the new on-line versions of our curriculum slide sets and poster packages. These online versions allow you to review all the materials contained in the slide set and poster packages in a highly interactive, cross referenced format right here on the internet 24 hours a day. Try them out and tell us what you think.

ArtsNet Minnesota enables teachers and students to discover, discuss, and share knowledge about art, artists, and art education online, focusing on 36 artworks from the Walker Art Center, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. Arranged into four themes--Identity, Environment, Inner Worlds, and What is Art?--ArtsNet Minnesota features insightful information about the artists and their works, engaging topics for discussion, and multidisciplinary classroom activities on a variety of subjects.

Traditional Materials
These slide sets, print, audio and video materials provide teachers and community leaders access to the collection when they may not have any access to the museum itself. These materials may also be used to complement a museum visit. The Curriculum Materials Office also circulates selected materials produced by other organizations that relate to the museum's collection. All of the materials and services for teachers are summarized in the Teaching the Arts Catalog which can be found in this area.

All materials are designed to give teachers the tools they need to guide their students in critical examinations of works of art. In keeping with the museum's mission to promote cultural understanding, these materials capitalize on the diversity of the Institute's collection and its potential to promote cultural understanding.

A large list of Arts Education related online resources has also been compiled to assist you in accessing other art related sites.

For more information on the Curriculum Materials program contact:
The Curriculum Materials Office at (612) 870-3134