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Museums are spaces in which the visual collides with historical, political, economic, and geographic vectors. Like classrooms, they are social spaces, both constantly renewing, reshaping, and reevaluating relationships between objects, histories, and people. However, they are not always free to enter, and, as La Tanya Autry, Mike Murawski, Brian O’Doherty, and others, remind us, neither are they neutral spaces. As art and design historians, museum educators, and other stakeholders engage in pedagogical discussions around visual canons, how do we navigate, translate between, and connect museum and classroom spaces?

This session offers strategies for engaging, fostering, and facilitating discussions and interactions via the intersections between the classroom and the museum at all levels of Art History instruction. The session is facilitated by ArtHistoryTeachingResources.org (AHTR) alongside museum thought-leader respondents across a range of ideas and issues.