# Virtual Museum Field Trips for Kids: TF Word 1. [TF Word](https://www.ticketfairy.com/de/word.md) 2. [Arts & Culture](https://www.ticketfairy.com/de/word/category/arts-culture.md) 3. Virtual Museum Field Trips for Kids - [Arts & Culture](https://www.ticketfairy.com/de/word/category/arts-culture.md) # Virtual Museum Field Trips for Kids As the global coronavirus pandemic steers lock-downs well into summer, several museums and cultural institutions in the USA are organizing digital field trips for young minds, many of which are all-accessible and free… [Ananya Ghosh](https://www.ticketfairy.com/de/word/author/ananya2019g.md) 7 Juli 2020 · 5 Min. Lesezeit As the global coronavirus pandemic steers lock-downs well into summer, several museums and cultural institutions in the USA are organizing digital field trips for young minds, many of which are all-accessible and free of cost. #### CHILDREN’S MUSEUMS As soon as quarantine began for the States, the [Children’s Museum of Manhattan](https://cmom.org/) initiated a themed daily series called [*CMOM at Home*](https://athome.cmom.org/) – from “Magical Monday” to “Surprise Sunday” – providing related projects and videos. Their selections now include instructions to do [a dinosaur march with musician Laurie Berkner](https://athome.cmom.org/join-the-dinosaur-march-with-laurie-berkner/) and [saying hello in different languages.](https://athome.cmom.org/ways-to-say-hello-with-mumu-fresh-and-callaloo-kids/) “We’re showing the world to children every day – different ways of cooking or dancing or talking,” said the museum’s deputy director for education and exhibitions, Leslie Bushara. On June 28, *CMOM at Home* celebrated pride month with the band Queer Kids and a rainbow-wand art project. In a later episode with artist Delano Dunn, children explored racial identity, [informed Bushara](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html). On July 28, [the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling](https://www.sugarhillmuseum.org/) of Manhattan (in response to the racial attacks by white mobs on black residents in Illinois) is scheduled to commemorate one of the very first civil rights marches, [the Silent Protest Parade of 1917](https://naacp.org/silent-protest-parade-centennial/), with their virtual *Children’s Art Exhibition for Justice*. [As reported by Laurel Graeber of The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html), the event will incorporate a video history of the march along with works by children, spoken-word pieces, and art collaborations by preteens and teenagers and famed artist Dionis Ortiz. The [Children’s Museums of the Arts](https://cmany.org/) is offering [online resources](https://cmany.org/blog/view/online-resources-families-regarding-racial-injustice/) regarding conversations around racial injustice along with its week-long [*Online Summer Art Colony Camps*](https://cmany.org/classes-and-activities/art-colony/summer-103-charlton/), which offers free videos on art lessons, craft projects, and storybook readings. #### ART MUSEUMS On June 29 [the Museum of Modern Art](https://www.moma.org/visit/families) set up *Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Family Art Lab at Home* to offer a series of creative prompts and videos based on the museum’s collection. The [*Kids Art Challenge*](https://whitney.org/families/kids-art-challenge), by the [Whitney Museum of American Art](https://whitney.org/), began in April and still continues to add six art prompts every two weeks. “We tried for a mix of old favorites, like [Calder’s ‘*Circus*,’](https://whitney.org/families/kids-art-challenge/alexander-calder) as well as newer works,” [said Heather Maxson](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html), the director of the school, and of youth, and family programs, at Whitney. The museum also offers painter Edward Hopper’s art in the form of [downloadable coloring images](https://whitney.org/whitney-from-home/hopper-coloring). Beginning July 6, *Whitney Summer Studio* will be a six-week program of free-of-cost forty-minute art classes on Zoom with a family session every Saturday – “We’re going to work on ways to connect families that are separated by distance,” said Maxson. Along similar lines, [the Guggenheim Museum](https://www.guggenheim.org/) has created its interactive [*Family Tours at Home*](https://www.guggenheim.org/event/guggenheim-family-tours-at-home) for select Saturdays of the summer. The museum has also turned its annual show of New York City’s student artwork, [*A Year With Children 2020*](https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/a-year-with-children-2020) into an e-book. The [Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art](https://www.carlemuseum.org/) in Massachusetts is offering [a virtual exhibition](https://sway.office.com/4gm5EH94jhEswJ7z) featuring twenty-one children’s book illustrators. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html) “Memories” by Amber Ren, one of the 21 illustrators featured in the virtual exhibition of Eric Carle Museum. Copyright illustration by Amber Ren. Image credits to [NY Times Online](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html) #### #### HISTORY AND CULTURE MUSEUMS The Smithsonian’s [National Museum of African American History and Culture,](https://nmaahc.si.edu/) in Washington, and its [National Museum of the American Indian,](https://americanindian.si.edu/) in Manhattan and Washington are offering online material with regards to America’s history with racism. The former museum’s web portal, [*Talking About Race*](https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race), is aimed at easing difficult conversations around racism, prejudice, and discrimination. “We talk a lot about the danger of silence,”[explained the museum’s director of teaching and learning, Candra Flanagan](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html). “When we’re silent, it forces kids to figure things out on their own.” The museum’s online programs also include a [Juneteenth celebration](https://nmaahc.si.edu/event/juneteenth-celebration-resilience?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D145373621) to mark the end of slavery in the US. Beginning August 3; they will host [*Young Historians Institute: The Virtual Remix*](https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/students/young-historians-institute-virtual-remix) for high school students to explore the African-American experience during the Revolutionary era. New York’s [Museum of Jewish Heritage — a Living Memorial to the Holocaust](https://mjhnyc.org/) is providing online resources to introduce young children to the sensitive and devastating history. One highlight of the museum, the HBO documentary “[The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/arts/events-for-children-in-nyc-this-week.html),” offers a look into the relationship between a child and a Holocaust survivor. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html) “The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm”, an HBO documentary for the Museum of Jewish Heritage — a Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Copyright image by HBO. Image Credits to [NY Times Online](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html) [The Tenement Museum](https://www.tenement.org/) in the state is offering [virtual visits](https://www.tenement.org/events/) to the past using actors to portray real immigrants. Children visited [1916’s New York with a Sephardic Jewish teenager](https://www.tenement.org/events/virtual-family-event-meet-victoria-confino-june-24/), Victoria Confino who immigrated from Kastoria (a city that is a part of modern-day Greece). Similarly, on July 8, the program [*Building a Community*](https://www.tenement.org/events/virtual-family-event-building-a-community-july-8/) will be using audio and visual history to introduce the Puerto Rican [Saez Valez family](https://www.tenement.org/events/virtual-family-event-building-a-community-july-8/) into the 1950s’ New York. #### SCIENCE MUSEUMS The [National Children’s Museum](https://nationalchildrensmuseum.org/) in Washington recently started a monthly podcast called the *STEAM Daydream*. Its first episode, [*Health Science Heroes*](https://nationalchildrensmuseum.org/podcast/), focuses on global diseases and the anxieties induced. [The Exploratorium](https://www.exploratorium.edu/) in San Francisco is offering [*Viruses and Us*](https://www.exploratorium.edu/learn), a compilation of online videos and activities. The [New York Hall of Science](https://nysci.org/) is offering online resources including a coronavirus exhibition, available in English and Spanish as well as [*Transmissions: Gone Viral*](https://nysci.org/school/resources/transmissions-gone-viral/), an immersive interactive graphic novel inspired by the 1999 West Nile outbreak. The [Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum](https://www.intrepidmuseum.org/) is offering *Virtual Astronomy Live* every month. The program offers opportunities to meet astronauts along with multiple aviation and space-themed programs. [The American Museum of Natural History](https://www.amnh.org/) offers [virtual adventures](https://www.amnh.org/explore) including YouTube watch parties like [*Field Trip: Mapping the Universe.*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUCC6ae0XZA&feature=youtu.be) The [Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County](https://nhm.org/) began a 360-degree online tour of [*Spiky, Hairy, Shiny: Insects of L.A.*](https://nhm.org/spiky-hairy-shiny-insects-la), where they exhibit bugs in colorful close-up shots. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/design/kids-museums-summer-virus.html) A Torymid wasp included in the online exhibition of “Spiky, Hairy, Shiny: Insects of L.A.”. Copyright image by Liza Gonzalez via Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County. 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