EDUCATION

GUIDED TOURS

The Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum offers guided tours to visitor groups and schools. An estimated 10,000 school children tour the museum each year. Tours are available for the temporary and permanent exhibitions. The most popular tours are based on the museum's permanent collection of Egyptian antiquities. The museum requests two weeks notice to book a tour for any group of 5 or more.

To book a tour contact Visitor Services at 909-537-3374 or e-mail ttalaver@csusb.edu.

ART HISTORY LECTURE SERIES

In October 2002, the museum initiated an art history lecture series designed for the museum's general audience. Topics range from the museum's permanent collection to temporary exhibitions on display during that specific time. Lectures are conducted on the second Thursdays of each month, 5-6:15 p.m. (excluding December and the summer months).

LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE:

SUMMER EGYPTIAN ART WORKSHOP FOR KIDS

Who: 6th grade students (ages 11-12)
When: July 27-30, 2009. Two sessions: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. & 3-6 p.m.
Where: Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, CSUSB
Cost: $60.00 ($50.00 for Friends of the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, CSUSB Alumni Association members, and CSUSB's faculty and staff)
Contact: Tiffany Talavera at (909) 537-3374 or email ttalaver@csusb.edu

Each year the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum organizes the Summer Egyptian Art Workshop for Kids. This popular, week-long, after-school program draws more than 20 sixth-grade students from neighboring communities throughout San Bernardino County. The workshop is conducted during the months of July or August and includes many hands-on activities as well as educational lectures and special tours of the art museum’s extensive collection of Egyptian antiquities.

Participating students learn about Egyptian history, culture and art. Led by trained docents, children participate in a variety of art projects including staged-archeological digs, molding clay figurines and making beads out of authentic ancient Egyptian molds.  In the process of learning about Egypt through art, students also learn basic art concepts and vocabulary that are then applied to each of their hands-on projects.

The Museum, in partnership with the Art Education program at CSUSB, collaborates with art educators from local schools to create the workshop curriculum. The hard work, dedication and creative imagination of all the participants result in a fun learning environment, which opens an entirely new world of art to the young minds.