SCHOOL TOURS

Palm Springs Art Museum

Tours Available:
Tuesday-Friday
10 a.m. (unless otherwise noted)
Up to 70 students

General Tours:
These tours are 50 minutes long and include visits to changing exhibitions and permanent collection art galleries. Please see Current Exhibitions and Permanent Collection for a full description of these areas.

Eyes On / Hands On: (Grades K-6 only)
(Funded in part by Gannett Foundation/The Desert Sun)

This is a 2-hour experience in the museum's galleries and art studios which offers students the opportunity to investigate works of art on their own terms. Explorations of meaning, technique, and personal expression take place during conversations about the works in the galleries with specially trained docents and during creative sessions in the studios with experienced art instructors.

We receive many requests and the number we can accommodate is limited, so please make your reservation early.

Teen Docent Eyes On / Hands On: (Grades 3rd-5th only)
(Funded by the McIntyre Foundation)
Please note: Teen Docent Eyes On / Hands On tours begin at 9:30 a.m. and can accommodate up to 35 students.

This is a 2-hour experience in the museum's galleries and art studios. Teen Docents will lead your students in the museum collections to explore meaning, technique and personal expressions. In the art studios, students will create their own art piece. This tour is available from October to December.

Themed Tours:
Teachers may select an emphasis for their tours from Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Native American Art, American Art, and Western Expansion for these 50-minute tours.

Self-Guided Tours: (High school and College)
School groups of one class with one teacher and another adult may reserve a self-guided tour. Reservations must be made with the Education Department so that docent-led tours are not disrupted. Please remember that groups led by museum docents always have priority in the galleries.

Writing in the Museum: (High School Only)
Writing in the Museum provides a tour of specific artworks that students explore with their specially trained docent/facilitator. Using directed questions to encourage visual literacy and moving through three modes of writing (descriptive, reflective, and analytical); students are given the opportunity to express themselves in words about the art and their responses to it. 

Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert

Tours Available:
Tuesday and Thursday
10 a.m. (unless otherwise noted)
1 class per touring day.

General Tours: (Middle and High School)
Please note: This tour is limited to 30 students only.

These tours are 50 minutes long and include the current exhibition in the Galen and the Faye Sarkowsky Sculpture Garden. Please see Current Exhibitions for a full description.

Eyes On / Hands On: (Grades K-6 only)
(Funded in part by Sherman Fairchild)

This is a 2-hour experience in the Galen and Faye Sarkowsky Sculpture Garden that offers students the opportunity to investigate works of art on their own terms. Explorations of meaning, technique, and personal expression take place during conversations about the works at the museum with specially trained docents and during a creative session in the studio with an experienced art instructor.

We receive many requests and the number we can accommodate is limited, so please make your reservation early.

Self-Guided Tours: (High school and College)
School groups of one class with one teacher and another adult may reserve a self-guided tour. Reservations must be made with the Education Department so that docent-led tours are not disrupted. Please remember that groups led by museum docents always have priority in the galleries.