School Tours

Give your students an artful experience. Bring your class to Mia.

Choose from a selection of popular topics for tours of the museum’s permanent collection. Your tour guides will work with you to make connections to your classroom. All school group tours are free, including tours of special exhibitions. Tours last 45-60 minutes and engage your students in close looking and discussion.

Request a Tour

Request a guided or self-guided school tour for your group using our tour request form. Learn more about our current guided tour offerings.

Request a Tour for “Giants”

Take advantage of early access for teachers to request free school tours of Mia’s next special exhibition “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys.”

Request your tour dates using our tour request form. Tours are available Tuesdays through Fridays, from March 18 through July 3, 2025.

“Giants” features the world-class art collection of musicians, songwriters, and producers Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys. The collection of paintings, photographs, and sculptures by diverse, multigenerational Black artists reflects the couple’s ethos of “artists supporting artists.” They have also used their digital platforms to uplift the present and future giants of the art world. For Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, all artists are giants.

Photograph of Breezy Boy Breakers in a pose. There are five young African American men wearing green pants, white shirts and baseball hats leaning on each other to form a square, with one balancing himself on one arm on top of the other four.

Jamel Shabazz. Breezy Boy Breakers, Midtown, Manhattan, NYC (detail), 2011. Chromogenic print. The Dean Collection, courtesy of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys. © Jamel Shabazz. (Photo: Glenn Steigelman)

Before Your Visit

Mia is proud to offer social narratives designed for members of the neurodiverse community. You’ll find versions for guided school groups, families, and adults and teens. View the social narratives online or request a print copy at Mia’s Third Avenue entrance.

Learn about the experience of visiting Mia with your group through the videos below. Videos are available in English, Spanish, and Somali, and provide museum guidelines and expectations ahead of your visit.

English

Spanish

Somali

Self-Guided Groups

If you have a group of 10 or more people (including yourself), please fill out our Self-Guided Group Registration Form or contact our Visitor Experience staff prior to your visit at 612.870.3000 or visit@artsmia.org. If your group arrives at the museum without pre-registering, you will need to fill out a self-guided visit form before taking your group into the galleries.

Pre-recorded Tours

Pre-recorded tours provide a way to connect with Mia’s collection. All of the videos invite learners to look closely and respond to questions, and some include drawing prompts to spur the imagination.