School Visits & Programs
Self-Guided School Visits
During self-guided visits, school groups (grades 3–12) receive expedited entry into the museum and an introduction by a Visitor Experience Team Member.
To enhance each student’s visit, educational resources created for children and families are available through our mobile museum guide. The mobile museum guide is accessible through any smartphone (headphones are not provided).
Self-guided school visits are free of cost. Each group is limited to a maximum of 30 students and must follow all visitor policies, including photo ID (ages 18 and up).
Art + Story
April and May 2025
Offered to Grades 3-6
The Broad will welcome students back to the museum for in-person visits to engage in writing exercises and storytelling through its permanent collection including new artworks and artists recently added to the collection. Art + Story artists include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, and Robert Therrien among others. Enrollment is first-come, first-served. Visits will take place from 9:00 am to 10:30 am on Tuesdays and Wednesdays beginning April 8, 2025. Please reserve your visit now, spots are limited.
If you would like to be put on the waitlist, please contact schoolvisits@thebroad.org.
Art + Activism
January, February, and March 2025
Offered to Grades 7-12
The Broad is thrilled to welcome students and teachers back to the museum to experience Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature. This exhibition will feature the impactful work of Broad Collection artist and German activist, Joseph Beuys through a distinctly indigenous and Los Angeles perspective. Beuys is known for his approach to environmental and social change through art projects.
Beuys, one of the most influential European artists of the last century, championed the idea of pure democracy and environmental justice through art that is both accessible and transformative. One of his most important contributions was to introduce “social sculpture”, acts of art that consist of everyday activities used to organize people to make a change in their community.
In these programs, students will engage in a dynamic and collaborative activity to create their own social sculpture. By encouraging them to involve their community or school in addressing issues they are passionate about, we will reflect Beuys’ belief that “everybody is an artist” through our creative works. Throughout the program, students will also engage with the Tongva cultural values of recognition, respect, and responsibility to better understand the intersection of art, science, and culture within Los Angeles. Facing a rapidly changing planet, students will work together to connect their personal experiences with Beuys’ principles and the Tongva view of the world as one large, interconnected system. In this, they will build community to create art that works towards a restorative and regenerative future for all.
The Broad has developed an online curriculum connected to this exhibition, centering on Tongva ways of life, their language, and their care for the land, as well as how we can act as environmental justice advocates in our everyday lives. The curriculum can be found here. The museum encourages you to use this curriculum with your students to provide an in-depth view of the Tongva culture of Southern California, the topography of the Los Angeles basin, Beuys’s art practice, and the different intersections of each topic.
The Broad’s Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature offers students opportunities to engage in new ways of thinking about their city, and their role in fostering a restorative relationship with the natural world. Enrollment is first-come, first-served. Visits will take place on Tuesdays, and Wednesdays beginning January 21, 2025, with timed starts of 9:30 am, 10:00 am, and 10:30 am. Please reserve your visit now, spots are limited.
If you would like to be put on the waitlist, please contact schoolvisits@thebroad.org.
Activities for Educators
Let's Make Art! Video Series
Make art inspired by the work of artists in the Broad collection. Through easy step-by-step instructions from The Broad's Let's Make Art! online program, children, families, and educators can use materials found at home to create a wide variety of artworks, from a miniature Infinity Mirrored Room inspired by Yayoi Kusama to a tapestry inspired by El Anatsui.
More Art Activities
Download PDFs of the art cards used in our art kits. Art cards are available in English and Spanish.