K–12
Field Trips
Art museum field trips can spark curiosity and engagement with big ideas about the world around us. Looking at art with peers encourages students to accept and seek diverse perspectives, skills that transfer to all areas of life. Bring your students to the MSU Broad Art Museum for an engaging + interactive experience with art!
In the Making: Young Minds at the MSU Broad Art Museum invites schools to participate in a three-part art experience: a pre-visit video and activity, museum field-trip, and hands-on art making lesson in your classroom. Field trips are held regularly on Monday and Tuesday mornings from 10–11am during the school year, with coordinating school visits on Fridays.
Scheduling for fall visits will be available Aug. 1, 2025.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our enthusiastic K–12 Engagement Team leads our field trip program. The team is made up of MSU students studying art and education who are mentored and managed by our museum education team.
Field trips are held regularly on Monday and Tuesday mornings from 10–11am during the school year, with coordinating school visits on Fridays. Available dates are on our online registration form. Pre-visit activities can be completed at school any time before your field trip.
A: Your In the Making experience begins with a pre-visit video with an activity to complete at school. Next, you travel to the art museum for an engaging 60-minute field trip. During the museum visit your students will see and learn about artworks in the main galleries of current exhibitions, including The CORE. Tours are student-centered and designed to inspire collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity. On Friday of your field trip week, our K–12 Engagement Team will visit your students at school to complete a related art project!
All students receive a sketchbook to use during their museum visit. After field trips, our team will visit your school to lead a hands-on art project related to ideas students collect in their sketchbook during the museum visit. School visits are scheduled on Fridays for schools within a 10-mile radius of the museum. If you are traveling from farther away, we will send you digital teaching resources to lead the project at your school.
All field trips and materials are free thanks to the generosity of the Park West Foundation. In addition, bus funding up to $225 per field trip is available by request for Title 1 schools on a first-come, first-served basis.
We can accommodate up to 60 students in the building.
You can reach us at eebam@msu.edu.
In the Making: Young Minds at the MSU Broad Art Museum K–12 programs are generously sponsored by the Park West Foundation.