School Tours & Workshops is an integral component of the education experience at MOLAA and is a favorite program of both students and teachers. The tour and workshop package uses age-appropriate lessons which reinforce California’s visual arts content standards.
This program includes a guided tour of the galleries facilitated by a MOLAA docent and a hands-on Art Workshop led by a Teaching Artist. Both the workshop and the tour review elements that give students the opportunity to create connections, relationships and applications between the objects presented to them and their own experiences.
The tour situates the students in direct contact with various art objects and engages them in multiple sensory experiences that are only accessible when students come face to face with a work of art.
MOLAA’s hands-on arts workshops provide an opportunity for experiential learning through creative expression. Workshops reinforce the understanding of basic elements of design as well as engage students with the concepts and materials presented in the temporary and permanent collection galleries.
Topics
Tour and workshop topics are based on the temporary exhibition. For information on topics and additional resources, please contact the Education Department at 562.437.1689 or by e-mail at www.molaa.org
General Information
Tours and workshops are available Wednesday – Saturday. A tour and workshop experience lasts approximately 2 hours. MOLAA offers tours that begin at 10:00am and the last tour begins at 3:00pm. Thursday evening tours are available at 5:00pm and 6:00pm.
To provide the best tour experience possible, our maximum capacity for any group is 60 people.
Temporary exhibition spaces are closed to the public three times a year for installation of exhibitions. Before you book your tour, please visit the MOLAA website for a listing of current and upcoming exhibitions.
Tours and workshops must be booked at least 2 weeks in advance.
Lunch Accommodations
Café Viva offers boxed lunches and student friendly menus. Arrangements must be made with two weeks’ notice. Reservations must be made directly with Café Viva. To arrange a lunch menu, contact the Café Viva Manager at 562.216.4175.
Schools who would like to have their students eat their lunches on the MOLAA campus must make arrangements prior to their visit. Please note on the online registration form if you will need lunch accommodations. Our lunch area is outdoors on limited picnic bench seating. For lunch with a view, we recommend Bixby Park (Between Cherry and Junipero Avenues along Ocean Boulevard).
High School Tour Scholarships are available, due to a generous grant from Verizon Wireless. To receive scholarship information, call 562.216.4108.