School Programs

School programs at The Noguchi Museum are available to students and youth groups in grades Pre-K through 12, and are:

• Exploratory experiences that invite students to form personally meaningful connections to art.
• Interactive visits designed to foster awareness of one’s inner self and build understanding in community with others.
• Inquiry-based and center students’ cultures, values, and identities through culturally responsive sustaining education practices.

Register now for winter dates in January through March 2025. Select a one-hour tour for an educator-led experience of the museum galleries, or a two-hour tour and workshop to engage with art-making in the studio. Please schedule your visit at least three weeks in advance, as time slots are limited.

Winter School Programs Registration Form

Registration is required for all groups. No programs are scheduled on Mondays or Tuesdays, when the Museum is closed. The maximum size for a school group is 30 students or one class. Up to five adults may accompany the group free of charge. Please email education@noguchi.org or call 718.204.7088 ext 203 if you have any questions.

The Noguchi Museum is committed to enabling all visitors to experience the art and environment created by Isamu Noguchi. School programs can be carefully designed to meet the needs of your students upon request, providing appropriate and accessible entry points to the Museum. For more information, visit noguchi.org/access or email education@noguchi.org.

To book a visit in April through May 2025, please complete an intake form for your class. The Museum will begin scheduling spring dates, April–May 2025, in January 2025.

Spring School Programs Intake Form

To learn more about a class visit to The Noguchi Museum, view our social story (PDF).

Tours last approximately one hour (45 minutes for Pre-K and Kindergarten) and include stops at two to three works of art in the galleries, with discussion, writing, or drawing activities planned for each stop. Tours are designed to promote careful observation and critical thinking, and challenge students to share ideas and listen closely to others.

NYC Public Schools
Free

All Other Schools
$150 per class

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Tour and Workshops

A tour and workshop lasts approximately two hours (90 minutes for Pre-K and Kindergarten). The tour portion of the program includes stops at one to two works of art in the galleries followed by a related hands-on art making workshop in the studio. Workshops are designed to promote openness, play, and experimentation.

Scholarships for free school programs are available for Title 1 schools. To learn more, email education@noguchi.org or call 718.204.7088 ext 203.

Title 1 School
$30 per class

NYC Public Schools
$100 per class

All Other Schools
$250 per class

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Themes

When booking a school group visit, we ask that teachers select a theme as a starting point for connections between learning in the classroom and in the museum galleries. Your thematic selection guides educators in planning and facilitating a customized experience for your students.

Artists’ Choices (all grades)
Throughout his career, Isamu Noguchi created work in a variety of media. Noguchi designed gardens, furniture, and architecture, and sculpted in metal, wood, marble, and stone. Using artwork on view as a point of inspiration, students will practice creative decision making and experiment with artists’ choices in materials, process, and collaboration.

What is Sculpture? (all grades)
Isamu Noguchi pushed the possibilities of sculpture. He wrote, “It is my wish to make sculpture a living and vital part of man’s environment.” Students will view artwork in the galleries and consider how sculptures connect to personal experiences of time, space, movement, and everyday life. 

Mining Art: Basalt, Granite, Marble (all grades)
Explore Isamu Noguchi’s sculptures through close observation of the natural properties of stone, comparing the qualities of hard igneous rocks like granite and basalt to softer stones such as marble. Students will learn about Isamu Noguchi’s approach to composition and compare the differences between nature’s marks and the artist’s mark on stone.

Identity and Art (grades 5–12)
As a Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi struggled to negotiate his hybrid identity and said, “It’s only in art that it was ever possible for me to find any identity at all.” Through investigations of artwork and artists on view, students will learn about multicultural contexts, and reflect on how art making can connect to agency, belonging, and empowerment.