The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Study Shows Museum Field Trips Impact Learning
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation support a study that shows that facilitated classroom visits to an art museum have a measurable impact on key aspects of student learning.
The comprehensive study, conducted over a four-year period, involved more than 2,600 students in grades 4 through 6, and included facilitated experiences at six art museums across the United States: Columbus Museum of Art; Hammer Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Orlando Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum; and, close to Central Penn., the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Titled the “Impact of Art Museum Programs on Students Research Study,” the results demonstrate that there are a variety of educational benefits to classroom visits to art museums....