Education | Programs

• Write a Picture, Draw a Poem. Students will translate master drawings into poems and poems into their own drawings.
  
  
• Colors of the World: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Age of Exploration. Students will step into Europe's past by reenacting skills and techniques that artists used to create the most exquisite medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Morgan's collections. They will delve into the art of Western illumination as a means of exploring early Eurasian and African trade routes.
  
  
• Door to Door: Building the Morgan for a Changing Community. Students will read the Morgan's architecture as if it were a book on New York City's social history.
  
  
• Reading a Building: Mr. Morgan and His Library. Students will piece together a character portrait of Pierpont Morgan by looking at his magnificent library.
  
  
• Writing Matters: Writing Tools in Ancient World Communities. Students will relate local natural resources to trading, communicating, and writing in the ancient world from Asia to the Mediterranean.
  
  
• From Cover to Cover: The Art of the Book. Over the course of nine sessions, students will explore the arts of writing, illustrating, and binding a book by hand, in the context of medieval and Renaissance social history and early Eurasian trade routes. By the end of the program, students will have produced their own "illuminated manuscript." Please note that this program is offered on a very limited schedule.

For a full description of our programs, please download the brochure.