Student Tours

Tours our always available for current and upcoming exhibitions.

Teachers may self-guide tours of the galleries provided there is one adult chaperone for each group of 15 students.

Learn about three important art elements and how artists use them to create a wide variety of flavors and visual treats.

During this introductory tour, preschoolers and kindergarteners will explore portraits (people), landscapes (places) and very interesting “things” like painted bathrobes, robot sculptures and art made from assembled toys.

Artists have been creating portraits for thousands of years. Learn what those faces can tell us by studying, comparing and contrasting portraits from the museum's collection.

Discover your inner storyteller by spinning tales inspired by works that are rich with narrative possibilities.

Identify weather conditions, classify clouds and phases of the moon in landscape paintings and photographs from the collection.

Discover how artists use ideas explored in your math class to create a huge variety of artworks.

Discover the multitude of Ohio artists represented in the Akron Art Museum’s collection and the richness and diversity they bring to the galleries. Docents will introduce your group to the inspired visions of Ohio artists and the ways they depicted the both the urban and rural sides of the Ohio landscape. Highlights include a visit to the gallery dedicated exclusively to the works of William Sommer, one of this region's most important historical artists.

Modern art can be a puzzle. Let our docents help you put the pieces together! Explore works by artists who took painting and sculpture in new directions by using line, shape and color in new and exciting ways.

Explore daring architectural ideas and spaces as docents lead your group through the museum's new and renovated spaces in addition to introducing you to highlights from the collection.

Sample the treasures currently on view, including turn-of-the-twentieth century realism, American impressionism and electric array of late twentieth-century Pop art, surrealist and post-modern works.