Programs for Schools

A teacher from Northvail School in Parsippany shows her painting during a Professional Development Workshop for Teachers.

The Morris Museum offers five different types of programs for schools:

Exhibition Programs
These programs are field trips to the Morris Museum that offer an in-depth study of a particular museum exhibition. Students are guided through an exhibition by a museum educator who engages them in a lively discussion of art, science, history and humanities concepts as revealed through objects, artifacts and artwork. All programs incorporate hands-on materials or activities.

Professional Development Workshops for Teachers
These programs enhance many areas of your curriculum, provide new insight and perspective on specific subjects and offer new educational resources and tools for you and, ultimately, for your students. The museum offers programs relating to topics in the arts, sciences, history, and values and leadership. The Morris Museum is a registered professional development service provider. A certificate of completion is provided to all participants.

Outreach Programs
Let us bring the Morris Museum to you! The Morris Museum offers Outreach Programs related to the arts, sciences and history – all to support your classroom curriculum. Boxes of handling objects, working models, interpretive materials, worksheets and educational games are all part of the Outreach experience. Conducted by the museum’s outreach educator, programs are presented in a discussion format, with a lively interaction between the educator and your students. Planetarium presentations are presented in the museum’s Portable Planetarium. AfterReach Programs are designed specifically for your afterschool programs.

School Loan Program
The Morris Museum School Loan Program offers 1,300 portable boxed exhibits containing handling objects and interpretive materials that relate to subjects in the arts, sciences, history and humanities. Exhibit boxes contain artifacts, dioramas, models, charts, reproductions of artwork, science experiments and mounted specimens of mammals, birds and insects to enhance learning experiences. The slide collection includes slides in carousels, with an accompanying narrative.

Classroom Intermission Theatre Series
The Morris Museum presents theatre for young audiences on the stage of our 312-seat Bickford Theatre. The Classroom Intermission Theatre Series introduces young audiences to the performing arts, sciences and humanities. Study guides are available for teachers for most performances. All performances run approximately one hour.