{"id":244414,"date":"2018-10-02T23:57:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T06:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/?page_id=244414"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:15:47","slug":"school-visits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/educators\/school-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"School Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body--large\">Museum experiences are a great way to encourage students to draw connections between art and their own lives, apply concepts learned in the classroom in a new context, and help develop critical and creative thinking skills. Teachers and their students are invited to explore the museum either with a Museum Guide or on a Self-Guided Visit. All scheduled school visits are free of charge for students and up to eight chaperones (including the teacher) per class.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vimeoplayer--iframe vimeo-container\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; position: relative; min-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; max-height: none;\">\n  <div style=\"padding-top:56%; \">\n    <iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/394527364?autopause=1&amp;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; left: 0;\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div> \n<h3>Scheduling<\/h3>\n<p><b>Guided tours at the museum are available for grades 3-12. Self-guided visits are available for grades K-12. There will be no guided tours of the <i>KAWS: FAMILY<\/i> exhibition. Self-guided visits to those exhibitions are limited and scheduled on a first come, first served basis and limited to groups of 20 or less.<\/b> Higher education faculty can email <a href=\"mailto:tours@sfmoma.org\">tours@sfmoma.org<\/a> to request a self-guided visit.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that the museum does not open to the public on Thursdays until noon.<\/p>\n<p>The museum continues to adhere to all state, county, and city COVID-19 policies and endeavors to make any visit to the museum as safe as possible. The museum&#8217;s official health and safety guidelines can be found in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/visit\/visitor-guidelines\/\">visitor toolkit<\/a> and will be updated in accordance with any changes that might impact you.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/teacher-resources\/\">Teacher Resources<\/a> page for art projects, artist-designed activities, videos, animations, and discussion questions you can use with your students to explore artworks from SFMOMA\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Please contact the School Visits office at <a href=\"mailto:schoolvisits@sfmoma.org\">schoolvisits@sfmoma.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Museum experiences are a great way to encourage students to draw connections between art and their own lives, apply concepts learned in the classroom in a new context, and help develop critical and creative thinking skills. Teachers and their students are invited to explore the museum either with a Museum Guide or on a Self-Guided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601210,"parent":101632,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"coauthors":[1689],"class_list":["post-244414","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","wpautop"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872317,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244414\/revisions\/872317"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=244414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}