New! Educational Videos Gallery
Make the most of your visit to the Art Institute. Whether you are a parent, teacher, student, or lifelong learner, these brief videos will help you plan your museum experience.
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New! Curious Corner
Children (ages 3–12) can learn about art through dynamic and entertaining interactive stories and games. It’s a great way to enrich your visit to the museum.
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Art Access
Explore works of art in this ever-expanding site that contains images and interpretive information, lesson plans, maps, bibliographies, and family activities.
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Art Explorer
Search for artworks and resources in the museum's Impressionist and Postimpressionist collection. Save images and video clips, lesson plans, artists biographies, and more using the scrapbook tool.
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Chicago Architects Oral History Project
Excerpts and transcripts of interviews with more than 70 Chicago architects active from the turn of the century to the present.
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Chicago: The City in Art
Discover historic mural paintings in 11 Chicago Public School buildings with photographs, information on the murals, and lesson plans for grades pre-K-12.
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Cleopatra
Learn about ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art in this multimedia guide featuring narrated video clips, interactive timelines and maps, and lesson plans. English and Spanish versions.
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Mary Reynolds Collection
Essays about the collection of Mary Reynolds, patron of Marcel Duchamp and the Surrealists, with an online illustrated catalogue.
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Revealing Picasso:
Infrared and X-ray analysis of Picasso's The Old Guitarist reveal the hidden images beneath its surface.
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The Silk Road: Resources for Teachers
See lesson plans and resources created by teachers who participated in Silk Road Chicago programs held in 2006–07. Special exhibitions, performances, and programs for schools celebrating the Silk Road—ancient trade routes through Asia—inspired lessons related to themes of cultural exchange.
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Science, Art, and Technology
Hear specialists in art history, art conservation, and the sciences discuss the connections between art, science, and technology in video clips, along with lesson plans, student projects, and self-guided tour ideas.
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Taoism and the Arts of China
View works in the past exhibition Taoism and the Arts of China (2000) and learn about this ancient faith through interactive texts, maps, lesson plans, and diagrams.
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