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Museum on the Move

M&G loves opening up the world of art through our unique Museum on the Move program by bringing museum learning to your classroom! Our educators are available to come to your classroom to teach and bring all the related materials for each lesson and arts-based STEAM units. Or you can choose to use digital Museum on the Move lessons in your classroom or remotely.

 

In-Person Lessons:

These 30- to 60-minute lessons are not only customized to accommodate individual classroom needs, but also integrate art with the core subject areas, and meet the South Carolina state standards and visual arts standards. Each lesson is taught by our experienced and skilled museum educators, who bring everything needed for the interactive lesson with them. See what educators say about this program!

For a list of in-classroom lesson topics in PDF, click here.

For a copy of the standards utilized in each lesson, click here.

To schedule an educator to come to your classroom: contact Anna Hamrick, M&G’s Museum on the Move Coordinator via this scheduling form, or at ahamrick@bju.edu, or 864.770.1331. She will coordinate fees and educator availability.

 

If you’d like to understand a little more detail about how Museum on the Move works, listen to this February 2021 podcast about the program, featuring our education staff:

 

 

Museum on the Move is part of Arts Encounter, M&G’s K-12 arts programming

 

 

Homeschool Days: 2025-2026

 

Victorian England: Through the Looking Glass

Join us for an exploration of Victorian England—a golden age of dazzling personalities, painting styles, and techniques! Students (ages 5-14) will discover how Victorian artists shaped not only their world but our own. Each 75-minute lesson is interactive and includes a related art activity. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn and create. As Alice in Lewis Carroll’s classic says: “What is the good of a book (or a world) without pictures?

Parent attendance is optional. Review our FAQs, which cover arrival and even co-op questions.

Registration: Register HERE.

Location: Mack Building (on the campus of Bob Jones University)

Fees per Lesson: Children–$10; adults–$3

Further your exploration of the era at home through M&G’s FREE electronic activity resource sheets HERE.

Event fees are non-refundable. Adults may choose either to attend with their child(ren) or leave after student check-in for the 75-minute lesson.

 

Elementary School Lessons (K5-5th grade)

Thursday at 9:30AM and 2PM (October Thursday sessions are FULL)

Friday at 9:30AM, Noon, and 2PM (All Friday sessions are FULL)

Middle School Lessons (6th-8th grade)

Friday at 9:30AM, Noon, and 2PM (ALL 9:30am sessions are FULL; September and October 2:00PM sessions are FULL; November 12PM session is FULL)

 

Fall Topics:

September 11-12, 2025

Discovering Who’s Who: Portrait Painting

  • Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Family Portraits
  • William Powell Frith and John Collier: Individual Portraits
  • Augustus Mulready, William MacDuff, and Mary Gow: Children’s Portraits

October 9-10, 2025

Sharing Stories: Children’s Book Illustrators

  • John Tenniel: Illustrator for Lewis Carroll
  • Beatrix Potter: Anthropomorphic Storyteller
  • Randolph Caldecott: Inspiration for the Caldecott Medal
  • Arthur Rackham: Innovative Ink and Watercolor Artist

November 13-14, 2025

Furry Friends and Fearsome Beasts: Animal Painters

  • Edwin Landseer: Favorite of the Queen
  • Charles Burton Barber: Master of the Sentimental
  • Briton Riviere: Master of the Majestic

Spring Topics:

Registration for Spring semester will open in December.

February 12-13, 2026

Enjoying a Laugh: Caricatures and Limericks

  • Henry Furniss: The Art of Exaggeration
  • Leslie Ward: The “Spy” of Vanity Fair
  • Edward Lear: Painter, Poet, Humorist

March 12-13, 2026

Discovering Nature: Landscape and Still Life Paintings

  • Thomas Creswick and John Crimshaw: A Distant View
  • William Henry Hunt and Edward Ladell: A Closer Look

April 9-10, 2026

The Imaginative World: Prominent Women Artists

  • Kate Bunce and Marie Spartali: The Enchanted World
  • Emily Osbourne and Emma Brownlow: The Nameless and Friendless
  • Adalaide Claxton: Invention and Imagination

 

Homeschool Days is part of Arts Encounter, M&G’s K-12 arts programming.

Digital Homeschool Days

M&G Digital Homeschool Days: The Age of Antiquity

For Students ages 5-14

Join us for an exploration of ancient tombs, palaces, caves, and libraries in search of some of the secrets of the ancient world of art. Through engaging digital lessons and at-home art projects and activities, you’ll discover what contributions were made to art and culture by seven influential civilizations of the distant past.

Register HERE for the following digital lessons and resources:

  • Sumer: Ingenious Innovators (FREE Lesson & Resources to sample)
  • Assyria: The First Empire
  • Babylon: The Jewel of Mesopotamia
  • Egypt: From Tombs to Treasures
  • Hebrew: A Chosen People
  • Greece: Paving the Way for the World of Art
  • Rome: Expansion & Influence