#connect-the-dots

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048 last time it was a picture of madness

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The fuck is this weird looking frog?

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We’re no stranger to treasures here at Brooklyn Museum. While we never get sick of walking past 2,000 year old Egyptian statues on our way into work, this week the Education Division got a special kind of relic: a piece of our own history. The museum librarians came across these vintage activity guides created by the Education Division before many of us were born, and before all of us worked here. They were kind enough to send them down to us. Cue some serious nerding out. 

These guides, designed for grades 6—9, are filled with charming drawings in elegant, limited palettes. The drawings show objects on view, or illuminate aspects of the cultures our collections represent. They offer contextual details you might not otherwise find on wall text or exhibition materials. Some activities were designed to be done by students prior to coming to the museum, like the connect-the-dot above of a Wari jar, while others were to be completed during their visit. I like to imagine a group of students in a 1980s Brooklyn classroom, getting excited about their impending field trip. Maybe their teacher has a countdown in the corner of the chalkboard: 5 days ‘til the Brooklyn Museum! I picture them walking in, clutching these colorful guides, eyes peeled for the objects they’ve already learned so much about. Just think of the delight in seeing an object up close, in the days before you could simply pull up Google and zoom in on a photo of it!

These days, we still create guides for students, teachers, and visitors to use—albeit, in a slightly different form. Most of them exist in PDF, rather than paper, form. None of us are called on anymore to populate these guides with our own sketches, relying instead on juicy photos of artworks. The newer guides take a decidedly more inquiry-based approach to museum education, offering questions that one can consider while viewing a work of art. Their function, however, remains the same--providing visitors of all kinds with a resource to help facilitate personal connections to art. Whether you’re coming to visit us soon or simply want to learn more about our collection, head over to our Teacher Resources page and check out our guides before they too give way, as all things must, to whatever’s next.

Posted by Sam Kelly