The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures invites you and your students to learn, discuss, and celebrate cinema through a school visit to the museum.

Three types of visits are available for school groups to experience the Academy Museum in the 2024–2025 school year: Color in Motion Guided School Program, Gallery School Tours, and self-guided explorations. Advanced reservations are required for all school groups visiting the Academy Museum.

Learn more about each school program available at the Academy Museum and how to sign up below.

COLOR IN MOTION GUIDED SCHOOL PROGRAM Guided School Tour and Studio Workshop

Grades: 2–12
Time and Days: 10am on select Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
Dates: Oct 9, 2024–May 29, 2025
Sign up: email museumschoolprograms@oscars.org

Join museum educators on a guided, inquiry-based tour through the Academy Museum’s newest exhibition, Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema. In this youth-focused program, students are immersed into the kaleidoscopic world of cinematic color as they learn and discuss the history and uses of color as a storytelling tool by filmmakers of the past and present.

Following their exhibition tour, students meet in the Shirley Temple Education Studio for an interactive workshop where they learn how color was created and utilized in early cinema. Please note that this program only tours Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema and does not allow time to visit the museum’s other galleries and spaces.

PROGRAM DETAILS

50-minute exhibition tour and 50-minute interactive workshop
Can accommodate up to 40 students (15-student minimum required)
Eligibility limited to Title 1 schools located within 25 miles of the Academy Museum
One adult chaperone required for every 8 elementary students or 10 middle school/high school students in attendance
Complimentary admission for students and accompanying teachers/chaperones; payment required for additional adults
Complimentary bus transportation available, subject to availability
Lunch is not provided
Presented in English
Space is limited; reserve early

To sign up for our Color in Motion Guided School Program, please send an email request to museumschoolprograms@oscars.org and include your name, title, and school site using your school-provided e-mail address. Upon verifying your school’s Title 1 status, you will be sent our School Program Interest Form for you to fill out with your school details, dates, and contact information. Visit our School Programs FAQ page here.

GALLERY SCHOOL TOURS

Grades: 2–12
Time and Days: 1p on select Thursdays
Dates: Oct 2024–May 2025
Sign up: email museumschoolprograms@oscars.org

The Academy Museum offers youth-focused, inquiry-based school tours that invite students in grades 2–12 to immerse themselves into the art of moviemaking. Led by museum educators, students engage with cinema through in-depth conversations and learn the ways film may be used as a tool for creative, critical, and compassionate thinking. These 50-minute guided school tours explore a group of select galleries, each focusing on a specific film craft, history, or genre. Gallery school tours are open to all Title 1 schools located within Southern California and includes complimentary museum admission only.

Interested schools may select one (1) of the available Gallery School Tours listed below:

Color in Motion Gallery School Tour [Grades 2–12] Students are immersed in the kaleidoscopic world of cinematic color as they learn and discuss the history and uses of color as a storytelling tool by filmmakers of the past and present in Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema.
Animation and Encounters Gallery School Tour [Grades 2–12] Tours focus on the art of animation and world-building through character, costume, and props as they explore Inventing Worlds and Characters: Animation and Encounters.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Includes a 50-minute gallery tour only (no interactive workshop)
Can accommodate up to 40 students total (15 student minimum required)
Eligibility open to all Title 1 schools in Southern California for grades 2–12
One adult chaperone is required for every 8 elementary students or 10 middle school/high school students in attendance
Complimentary admission for students and accompanying teachers/chaperones; payment required for additional adults
Schools are required to arrange their own transportation to the museum
Lunch is not provided
Presented in English
Space is limited; reserve early

To sign up for a gallery school tour, please send an e-mail request to museumschoolprograms@oscars.org and include your name, title, and school site using your school-provided e-mail address. Upon verifying your school’s Title 1 status, you will be sent our School Program Interest Form for you to fill out with your school details, dates, and contact information. Visit our School Programs FAQ page here.

SELF-GUIDED EXPLORATIONS

For a more flexible and independent visit with your students, book a self-guided exploration of the Academy Museum through Group Visits. Self-guided visits allow teachers the flexibility to tailor their students’ field trip to their own classroom needs and explore the galleries at their own pace.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Self-guided explorations are available for all school groups including after-school programs, camps, and private schools.
Visitors 17 years of age or younger receive complimentary admission.
Group rates are available. For more information, visit the Group Visit page or send an e-mail to groups.academymuseum@oscars.org.

Questions? Visit our School Programs FAQ page.

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