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Mingei’s Outreach at Home Series provides teachers and students educational materials to learn and create art in their own art-making spaces.

The Museum’s diverse collections include more than 25,000 objects from 141 countries spanning 23 centuries. Stunning exhibitions enlighten students about useful objects of timeless beauty, and they provide lessons in topics as wide-ranging as language arts, geography, mathematics, history, science and anthropology.

This free program includes family-friendly art-making activities tied thematically to the Museum’s permanent collection or exhibitions on view.

The Museum received a two-year $227,000 Institute of Museum and Library Services CARES Act Grant in support of its current distance learning programs, as well as new engagement programs to support seniors who are socially isolated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the support of this IMLS grant, Mingei partnered with Elderhelp and Jewish Family Service to offer hands-on artmaking opportunities and art prints featuring collection objects distributed to seniors' homes. These “at-home” programs are a combination of mailed art supplies, video instructions and opportunities to connect with education staff and guest artists via social media and mail.

Mingei offers Girl Scouts, both troops and individual girls, engaging and interactive experiences within a Museum environment. Participate in unique leadership opportunities, interesting art-making activities and make connections to artists and art forms from all eras and cultures around the world.