family & children's guides in PDF format

Pompeii and the Roman VillaPreview a QuickTime movie clip about the exhibition.|

Download a DISCOVERY GUIDE to the exhibition. (PDF 1.4 MB)

  Pompeii Discovery Guide

Learn more about the exhibition or plan your visit.

  THE INSIDE SCOOP 

Cropsey

Download the Inside Scoop on Jasper Francis Cropsey (PDF, 360 k)


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Download the Inside Scoop on Mary Cassatt (PDF, 282 k)

Download the Inside Scoop on Martin Johnson Heade (PDF, 280 k) .   Learn about the artist's adventures in South America, and share someof the sights and sounds of the rain forest as you view hummingbirds and orchids online. 

Download the Inside Scoop on Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Ginevra de' Benci. (PDF, 208k)  Learn more about this painting, and zoom in for a close look. (Flash, 20k)

 

Get the Inside Scoop on Turner , Lichtenstein, Monet , and Avercamp (PDF, 200k) 

Winslow Homer Inside Scoop

Winslow Homer Inside Scoop  (PDF, 200k)  

The Winslow Homer exhibition closed on February 26, 2006, but many of Homer's paintings  are on on view in the American galleries (West Building). The Homer Web feature has additional information about the artist, short video clips about his life, and a zoomable slide show.

Andy Goldsworthy

Get the Inside Scoop on Andy Goldsworthy. In January 2003, The National Gallery of Art invited Andy Goldworthy to create a site-specific installation. Completed in February 2005, Roof runs the length of the garden area on the north side of the East Building. It will be on view indefinitely.

Stuart Inside Scoop
Get the Inside Scoop (PDF 516k) on Gilbert Stuart. The exhibition closed on July 31, 2005.

Rembrandt insidescoop
Get the Inside Scoop
(PDF, 340k) on Rembrandt. The exhibition Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits closed May 1, 2005.

Dan Flavin inside scoop
The exhibition Dan Flavin: A Retrospective closed on January 9, 2005. Download the Flavin edition of Inside Scoop in Acrobat format.

Shaw Memorial Inside Scoop
Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. (Due to architectural renovations in the West Building, The Shaw Memorial will not be on view until March 1, 2009.

Inside Scoop Archive (2002–2004)

Get the Inside Scoop on Castagno, Vigée-LeBrun, Copley, Degas, French Fauve landscapes, Rivera, Bearden, and Stella.

Inside Scoop 2002-2004

 

 PAST EXHIBITION GUIDES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Puryear exhibition


Puryear family guide
Download a printable Family Guide (PDF, 856k) to the  Martin Puryear exhibition (National Gallery of Art, June 22–September 28, 2008). The guide includes images, background information, and looking activities.

FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS: Visit the Puryear exhibition page for additional information or click the large image above to view the online feature.  Linked pages will open in a new browser window.

 

 

 

Afghanistan

Discovery GuideFOR CHILDREN AGES EIGHT TO TWELVE: Download the Discovery Guide to the exhibition Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum in Kabul. (PDF, 916 k) The Guide was first published by the Musée Guimet in French in 2006 under the title A la
recherche des trésors d’Afghanistan. The Afghanistan exhibition will be on view at the National Gallery through September 7, 2008.

FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS: Visit the exhibition page to view an online feature. Created in conjunction with the National Geographic Society, the Web programs show relevant archaeological sites, an illustrated timeline of ancient Afghan history, an audio slideshow, and reconstructions of lavish burial costumes adorned with gold. 

 

Forest activityFOREST OF FONTAINEBLEAU GUIDEBOOK

Download the Family Activity Guidebook  (PDF, 640k)

FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS: Visit NGAClassroom to download Picturing France, a teaching resource about 19th-century French art.

View the In the Forest of Fontainebleau Web feature.

This exhibition closed on June 8, 2008.  

 


exhibition guides

The Quest for Immortality: The Art of Ancient Egypt Family Guide
This exhibition is no longer on view, but the family guide is available online.

Download The Art of Romare Bearden Children's Guide in PDF format. The Bearden exhibition at the National Gallery of Art closed January 4, 2004.

 Download the Children's Guide to the exhibition Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya.
The exhibition at the National Gallery of Art closed July 25, 2004.
 

The exhibition has closed, but the Édouard Vuillard family guide is available online in HTML and PDF format.

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