The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding. Since the initial 1947 appropriation that established its collection, the Museum has continued to be a model of enlightened public policy with free admission to the permanent collection. Today, it encompasses a collection that spans more than 5,000 years of artistic work from antiquity to the present, an amphitheater for outdoor performances, and a variety of celebrated exhibitions and public programs. The Museum features over 40 galleries as well as more than a dozen major works of art in the nation's largest museum park with 164-acres (0.66 km2). One of the leading art museums in the American South, the NCMA recently completed a major expansion winning international acclaim for innovative approaches to energy-efficient design.
Virtual field trips with NCMA are standards-based programs, live with a museum educator. Through inquiry based discussion strategies, your students will identify, describe, and connect with 2 or 3 works of art during their virtual field trip to develop cross-curricular visual literacy skills.
For teacher and family resources, including artwork images and descriptions, artist biographies, videos, lesson plans, quick tips, concept maps, and info about programs and events, visit us at https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/
For more information on virtual field trips and to sign your class up for an individual program: https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/vft/
Email questions to ncmavft@gmail.com