StoryScapes is a creative virtual workshop where students bring stories to life through 3D model-making. Using simple materials they’ll explore character, setting, and plot, then build miniature scenes that reflect […]
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Mural Painting at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
Discover the wonders of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens through a collaborative mural painting workshop! This field trip invites students in grades 4-8, and their guardians, to explore the gardens by transforming […]
StoryScapes: Virtual 3D Model-Making and Storytelling Workshop
StoryScapes is a creative virtual workshop where students bring stories to life through 3D model-making. Using simple materials they’ll explore character, setting, and plot, then build miniature scenes that reflect […]
Music Through the Ages: Sounds of the Americas in Practice
Explore the history of music/sound in ancient Mesoamerica & the Andes through instruments in the Pre-Columbian collection, listening to recordings & imagining how they were used in ritual, celebration, & […]
Chocolate: The Columbian Exchange in a Cup
Explore the intertwined histories of cacao and sugar across the Old & New Worlds, examining trade and culture. Students begin with a tour of the Pre-Columbian Galleries and the “Stimulant […]
Cemetery Grave Hunter: Discover DC History
This 90-minute program asks students to explore U.S. and Washington history through the lives of those buried at Historic Congressional Cemetery. Guided by an educator, students will locate gravesites, working […]
Trees as Witness: Ancestor, Property, Archive
Explore the layered histories of DC, from the perspective of witness trees at Dumbarton Oaks Gardens. Students will tour historic trees in the gardens & consider the history a tree […]
Byzantine Medallions: Power in your Hands
Explore the history of the Byzantine Empire through an arts activity making coins or seals. Far from “falling,” the Eastern Roman Empire, which we call Byzantium, continued to thrive at […]
Music Through the Ages
Music Through the Ages is an interactive concert which gives children a front row seat to the development of tonal music, helping them appreciate music from every culture and era. […]
WMC Performs the Music of Shirley Horn
This in-person program introduces students to the music of Shirley Horn, a DC native and trailblazing jazz vocalist that broke down barriers for female jazz musicians. Through a performance of […]