Guided Visits for Schools, Colleges, and Universities
Led by staff educators, guided visits invite students to look closely at and engage critically with 2–3 works of art from the permanent collection. Frick educators facilitate discussions based on students’ observations and curiosities, aiming for depth rather than breadth. Visits build analytical and descriptive skills and can be tailored to meet a wide range of curricular goals.
Conversations can explore topics including how artists develop narratives; how materials and formal choices shape meaning; portraiture’s power to fashion identity; intersections between art, society, and historical and present-day contexts; as well as the history of the museum and collecting practices. Sketching activities can be incorporated into visits as a tool for close looking, and introductions to the resources of the Frick Art Research Library are available for research-focused courses at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels.
Both in-person and online visits can be requested through our booking form below. Online visits are conducted via Zoom, or on your preferred platform.
Grade Level
Guided visits are available to students in grades 5 through 12, as well as undergraduate and graduate students. After-school and homeschool groups, as well as community organizations such as public libraries or senior centers, are welcome to book in-person or online guided visits.
Only children ages 10 and older are admitted.
Scheduling
In-person visits can be scheduled on the following days and times (excluding holidays):
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
- Saturday, subject to availability
Online visits can be scheduled Monday through Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Visits last 45–60 minutes. Multi-part visits are also available to book for separate days, upon request.
Group Size
In-person guided visits accommodate a maximum of 30 attendees, including chaperones. For grades 5–12, one chaperone is required for every 10 students.
Online visits accommodate a maximum of 40 attendees.
Fees
In-person visits for public schools, colleges, and universities are offered free of charge.
In-person visits for private schools, colleges, and universities incur a fee of $300 per group of 30.
All online visits for schools, colleges, and universities are free.
Accessibility
The following services are available by request. Please select the appropriate option(s) on the request form. We ask for two weeks’ advance notice but will make every effort to accommodate all requests, including those made within two weeks of the visit. For more information about accessibility at the Frick, visit frick.org/accessibility.
- For in-person visits
- Borrowing a wheelchair onsite
- Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs)
- American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter: a live interpreter onsite
- For online visits
- Live captioning: text provided live by a human interpreter
- American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter: a live interpreter will be visible in a pinned video window to provide ASL interpretation
- Copy of slides prior to the session: presentation materials will be provided for download before the visit
Requests
Please book well in advance. Visits cannot be booked for December 22–January 6.
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Questions?
Please email schoolvisits@frick.org.
Support for education programs is generously provided by the Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation and the Charina Endowment Fund. Additional support is provided by the Perkin Fund, Nicholas L. D. Firth, Thomas Giallorenzi in memory of Renato C. Giallorenzi, and an anonymous foundation.
Programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
