School Visits
Expand your classroom learning at Glenstone.
If our program encourages more students to take up a pencil, to write, to draw, to dream, that alone is what we're trying to do here.
Before You Visit
All onsite visits can host up to 40 students and require 4 school chaperones. Chaperones are key to a successful visit!
Share our School Visit at Glenstone video (01:07) with your students to give a preview of their visit. For a longer introduction with additional commentary from our founders, our guides, and artists in our collection, share our What is Glenstone? video (10:00).
Educators have guaranteed entry to Glenstone. Prepare for your visit by visiting Glenstone ahead of your field trip.
Contact the Community Engagement team, Monday to Friday at youth@glenstone.org.
Review our Frequently Asked Questions about school visits.
Guided Engagements
Glenstone offers five guided paths to choose from for your visit. All paths are designed to meet Maryland Visual Art State Standards or Next Generation Science Standards to enable stronger connections to the current state-wide curriculum.
Guided programs are led by knowledgeable guides that use artful thinking routines, modeled on strategies developed by Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education, to encourage student engagement.
During the visits, students will be able to work on the following skills.
Students will build critical thinking and interpretation skills. Your class will learn how to talk about art, and how to use language that communicates ideas and visual experiences.
Students will share their own ideas about art, architecture, and nature. At Glenstone, we want to help students feel more independent by encouraging them to express their own important opinions.
Students will discover ways to apply mindfulness techniques in their own lives. Close-looking techniques, as a kind of mindfulness activity, can offer students a way to slow down and get to know the world around them at their own pace.
Students will encounter new ways of thinking about sustainability. Sustainability is a core value at Glenstone. Students will discover how organizations and individuals can make decisions that are good for the environment.
Scheduling guided onsite visits for the 2025-26 school year will begin on Monday, August 25, at 10:00 am.
Visit Logistics
One guided engagement is available on Thursdays and Fridays from 9–11:30 a.m.
All Glenstone visits include time outdoors, rain or shine.
Students will engage with 4-5 artworks in Glenstone's collection.
Visits can host up to 40 students and require 4 chaperones.
Review our guided engagement guidelines to prepare for your visit.
Visit Paths
Available during the academic year.
Self-Led Visits
In a self-led visit, students explore Glenstone at their own pace and are encouraged to engage with our guide team throughout campus.
You can schedule a self-led visit on the Groups page. The Community Engagement team will follow up with you to share additional details about your visit and answer any questions.
Visit Logistics
Self-led visits are available Thursdays and Fridays at 10 a.m., 12 p.m., and 2 p.m.
All Glenstone visits include time outdoors, rain or shine.
Self-led visits are open for groups of up to 40 participants (inclusive of students and chaperones). Contact the Community Engagement team to discuss a bigger school group of up to 40 students with 4 chaperones.
Review our self-led visit overview letter to prepare for your visit.
Virtual Engagements
Glenstone offers three virtually guided programs led by the Community Engagement Team that use interactive exercises to encourage student engagement.
Schedule a virtual engagement here.
Visit Logistics
Virtual engagements are offered Monday through Friday and are 45 minutes.
Virtual engagements are led by the Community Engagement team and can be hosted on the school's preferred platform.
Virtual engagements can be hosted with a group of any size, but we recommend selecting this option with smaller classes to facilitate discussion between the presenters and students.