Collection Tours and Programs
 

Art Adventure Tours

Join our specially trained Volunteer Children's Guides on an Art Adventure Tour to introduce K-6 students to the Gallery's permanent collection. All tours are written to complement the K-6 syllabus and the most appropriate subject links are highlighted in each tour description.

All Art Adventure Tours
60 minutes
Max. 60 students per hour with approx. 10 students per group
Tuesdays - Fridays at 10am, 11am & 12noon
FREE
Bookings essential
 

Student Programs

Learning to Look

Creative Arts • HSIE • Science and Technology • English • Mathematics
A fun introduction for young visitors to the Gallery and to different ways of looking at and interpreting a range of artworks from the permanent collection. This tour is recommended for all first time visitors and provides children with an opportunity to develop their own visual arts vocabulary through discussion, exploration, activities and role-play. It is the perfect complement to other Key Learning Areas and as a starting point for exploring visual culture both in the Gallery and in everyday life. Themes linked to classroom activities can be requested as part of the tour.
Learning to Look Tour sheet (PDF)
 

Let's look back: every picture tells a story

Creative Arts • HSIE • Science & Technology • English
Uncover stories and legends, history and culture in artworks throughout the Gallery’s European and Western art collections. Explore how art can tell us about our past, our present and maybe even our future! Let's look back makes historical subject-matter and stories accessible to children through comparisons to their own experiences, knowledge, imagination and interests.
Let's look back Tour sheet (PDF)
  

Let's go bush: our Australia

Creative Arts • HSIE • PDHPE • Science & Technology • English
Tour through the Australian and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collections and discover the people and places and the way artists respond in unique ways to the diverse environments of Australia.
Let's go bush Tour sheet (PDF)
  

Information sheets including suggested pre- and post-visit activities are sent out with confirmation of booking and can be downloaded from the links above.

Yiribana: This Way
See under Aboriginal Art.

Adventures in Asia
See under Asian Art.

Exhibition Tours
See under Temporary Exhibition Programs.