Central Primary School Arts DayCentral Primary School Arts Day

Kindergarten: Where is Art?

Museums• An art museum is a special place

built to display and view art.

MOMA: New York

The Guggenheim: New York

The Art Institute of Chicago

Museums Hold the Right Temperature• It can’t be too hot or cold, too damp

or dry, inside a museum.• If the temperature is not just right,

paint can crack or peel.• One reason some ancient arts has

lasted so long is that it was preserved in cool caves or dry deserts.

Museums Make Choices• Art displayed in each museum is

chose by a curator.• A curator is a specially trained

person who chooses the artwork and decides how it is displayed.

Examples of Paintings Found at the MOMA: New York (Jackson Pollock and Vincent Van Gogh)

Museums Keep the Art Looking Good

• Museums hire conservators to clean and restore paintings so that years from now, they will look just painted.

• Conservators remove dirt and oil varnish and repair cracking paint.

• They often use x-rays and infrared reflectography to explore beneath the layers of paint.

Museums Have Special Rooms

• Art museums are often divided into galleries or collections.

• Galleries help to group similar works together.

Example of Museum/ Galleries

• The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (Amherst, MA)

• Virtual Tour Link https://vimeo.com/88088804

Museums Teach

• Visiting a museum is not about quietly staring at art.

• Today, many museums offer special programs for kids.

Other Places To See Art• Most cities have art galleries.• Many galleries feature different

shows, which highlight the work of one artist or a group of artists

• Artists often have art exhibitions where they show their art. Exhibitions can be in a museum, a gallery, at a fair, in a school or church, at a local coffee shop, or at an art festival.

Do I Hear Two Million?• Important works of art are often

sold at an art auction.• The two most famous art auction

houses are Christie’s and Sotheby’s.

• At an auction, a work of art is sold to the highest bidder, or the person who is willing to pay the most money.