Meet Me at the Museum seeks to make elementary school field trips to NYC museums inclusive and empowering by offering free, personalized tours. We assemble a series of art pieces that are relevant to classroom curricula, and work to broaden students’ understanding of what art can be. Each tour focuses on several guided questions, allowing each class and student to have a significant personal experience.
Our History
MMatM was founded at Columbia University in September 2015 by Alexandra Pass (Barnard '17) and Audrey Marutollo, a fifth grade teacher at PS-96. Since MMatM's inception, there have been over 150 tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bronx Museum of Art, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum. Over 3,600 students have been able to enjoy an informative and interactive museum experience.
3,600+
Students who have attended our tours
150
Tours given since 2015
75
Trained tour guides
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Our tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explore many themes including human rights, American history, and children’s cultural experiences.
Cooper Hewitt
The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum offers students unique interactive opportunities to learn about art and design.
Our Values
Critical thinking
By guiding students through the process of analyzing a work of art, we cultivate critical-thinkers, empowering students to articulate their experiences no matter what content is being addressed.
Connection
We encourage students to make connections between school and lived experiences by working with teachers to incorporate their specific curricula into our tours. Our interdisciplinary approach enhances students’ understanding of how and where learning can happen.
Communication
By fostering student’s participation throughout our tours, our students learn to communicate original ideas. We practice empathy by looking at an artwork, identifying the emotions of the piece, and putting into words what students think is being expressed.
Creativity
By studying the arts, a student’s creativity is naturally engaged. The arts drive creative inquiry, which is the fuel for all disciplines. We support our students in strengthening skills and instincts that unlock questions, solve problems, and allow them to discover new possibilities both in and out of the classroom.
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