Class Visits : Docent Tours

Academically enriching and great fun, docent-led tours enable K–12 students to understand art, history, culture, geography, and much more. Always free, UMMA docent tours develop observation skills and visual literacy, confidence and critical thinking.

UMMA’s creative and experienced docents will work with teachers to make tours appropriate to the classroom curriculum. Tours may focus on a particular culture such as monuments of China, ceramics in Korea, or American history. Alternatively they may be thematic and address units like neighbors and communities, shapes and colors, friends and family.

Tours for both school and adult groups are available by request at least three weeks in advance. For more information or to schedule docent tours, please contact umma-tours@umich.edu.

Subsidies to defray school bus charges are available. Please see Busing Funds for more information.