- Grade Levels:
- 6-12
- Length:
- 60 minutes
- Taping Rights:
- Unlimited
- MARC Record:
- Downloadable
- Web Site:
- KET Online
- Teaching Materials:
- See Below
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KET Distance Learning humanities instructor Liz Jewell hosts this tour of Kentucky’s oldest and largest art museum, the Speed Art Museum on the downtown campus of the University of Louisville. Beginning at the loading dock as crates containing a traveling exhibition of Rodin sculptures arrive, she shows students how the museum staff handles, unpacks, and mounts these precious objects—some of them weighing upwards of 1,200 pounds—and creates an enjoyable and educational exhibit around them.
The field trip also includes a look at the Speed’s eclectic permanent collection, which ranges from European old masters to African and Native American art to “body parts” and dog-themed works. Exhibit designers demonstrate some of the innovative hands-on displays and computer software that allow museums to create interactive art experiences for today’s visitors, and curators explain how they create and maintain the proper environmental conditions to preserve artworks for future generations of visitors.
This field trip premiered on April 13, 1999.
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