Teach and learn with one of the largest online art collections of any museum in the world! MFA Educators Online allows you to explore and create online galleries of art to use in the classroom, enhance a visit to the Museum, and collaborate with other teachers. Online galleries offer a unique way to interact with the MFA's extensive online collection and share your teaching ideas.
Whether you use galleries created by Museum staff or other teachers or you create your own, you can engage your students by gathering images from this online collection of nearly 150,000 art objects across cultures and time periods to illustrate themes and concepts. Add your own comments, questions, activity suggestions, lesson plans, and even your own images of student work to a gallery, or browse ideas from other teachers for valuable tools you can use to help your students learn through art in a new way.
Here are some fun ways you can use online galleries in the classroom:
1) Upload students' responses to art to show other educators how their own students might be inspired, or to share with parents.
2) Find art to give context to a historical era.
3) Prepare for a field trip, or use as a post-visit follow-up activity.
4) Help students research assignments.
MFA Educators Online is made possible in part through the generous support of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
