The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
Located:Museum Hill TM at 710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
http://www.indianartsandculture.orgThe Museum of Indian Arts & Culture offers two choices of thematic tours with related hands-on activities for grades K-8.
The Passport Tour
This 45 minute tour will stop at five stations in the museum’s permanent exhibition, Here, Now and Always. In the museum’s classroom, a hands-on activity will support the theme of the tour.
The Stories Tour
This 45-minute tour of the exhibitions Here, Now, and Always and the Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery will focus on the dynamic oral traditions of Indian people and how these traditions are transmitted between generations and reflected in art. Each museum visit will include a hands-on lesson in the museum’s classroom, listening to Native American stories and creating animals in clay (grades K-2) or with watercolor paints (grades 3-

.
Thematic tours with hands-on activities are offered Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings at 10:00am or 1:00 pm in the Living Traditions Center of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. Each scheduled museum visit includes:
Confirmation packet of materials for classroom use
Pre-museum visit to the classroom by Outreach Educators (45 minutes)
Tour of Here, Now and Always and/or Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery
Follow-up curriculum packet of suggested related activities
To schedule a visit to the museum, please contact Joyce Begay-Foss at 505/476-1272 or email jbegayfoss@mnm.state.nm.us.