Education

Visitors will have many opportunities to learn and ask questions by interacting with the new Museum. They will be able to pull out drawers of artists' sketchbooks or bird eggs, listen to oral histories, learn more about history through interactive kiosks, create art, or reflect in specially designed contemplative areas.

: Visitors examine mushrooms through a microscope at the annual Fungus Fair

Phase I

In the new Art and History Galleries, information will be geared to different learning styles—hearing as well as seeing, for a multisensory experience—and different levels of knowledge. Exhibits will change frequently to reveal more of the Museum’s renowned collections and California’s many compelling stories.

Phase II

Many of the same educational techniques developed for the Art and History Galleries will be incorporated into the new Natural Sciences Gallery.

The Museum will enhance dedicated Education spaces used for school tours and programs. Plans include an improved school entry way on 10th Street and easy-access storage for lunches and backpacks.

Keep checking the website for updates as our plans continue to unfold!

: Lynn Hershman, Phantom Limb #1, 1989-1990, Gift of the Timken Fund

“Today's younger generations are tech-driven. They want to touch a screen to hear, see, or read something new. They expect that's the way they will learn, and — especially in California, where new technology is born — we need to use tools familiar to them. ”

Kathryn Seabrook, Business Manager, CReal Films, Inc., Member of Museum's African American Advisory Council and Oakland Museum Women's Board.