Give your students a world-class museum experience without ever leaving the classroom. Students can explore the Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom through an immersive virtual platform, and teachers can choose from a suite of lessons and activities designed to integrate the experience into classroom curriculum. Each lesson includes a thematic selection of objects, questions to spark guided discussion, in-class activities to promote student engagement, and contextual information to deepen learning.
The Virtual Field Trip is FREE to educators and schools upon request. There is no limit on the amount students or times you access the virtual field trip once you have access to it. Please fill in the form below to request access.
AWARD RECIPIENT:
Educators looking for tools to provide their students with meaningful connections to social justice and human rights will find compelling visual and interactive content in the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Virtual Field Trip, “Imagining Freedom”.
Natalie Johnson, educator
Not a teacher or a school and looking to explore just the Virtual Exhibition featured in the Virtual Field Trip?
Purchase the exhibit for $5 and you will get a link to access the experience whenever you like for as many times as you would like. This virtual exhibition is an experience that you access on your computer, mobile device, or virtual reality (VR) headset.
DRAWING LIFE with Illustrators from Norman Rockwell’s Studio
Wonder. Storytelling. Human Connection. From a converted carriage barn on South Street in Stockbridge, MA, Norman Rockwell painted his way into the hearts and lives of people around the world. In this Studio—his last and “best yet”—Rockwell’s imaginative artistry established a legacy of creativity that continues to inspire artists and visitors alike. Today, illustration art is everywhere: books and graphic novels, editorials and advertising, video games and the metaverse, posters, comics, clothing, and tattoos.
A 14 month series of online and on-demand programs features leading illustrators from across the United States demonstrating their craft and discussing ways in which published illustration reflects and shapes society and advances social good.
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Norman Rockwell Museum has been creating new online ways for our visitors to discover our extensive collections of art, historical objects, classroom activities, and scholarship.
We are thrilled to now have curated experiences that collect related images, photography, video, audio and history relating to the Museum’s renowned collection of Norman Rockwell’s original paintings, his Stockbridge Studio, as well as the Museum’s vast collection of illustration art. Enjoy your Virtual Museum!
Land Acknowledgement
It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.
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The Norman Rockwell Museum would like to again thank the many supporters and sponsors of ProjectNORMAN, including:
National Historical Publications and Records Commission; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Save America’s Treasures; National Endowment for the Arts; National Endowment for the Humanities; Henry Luce Foundation; Town of Stockbridge Community Preservation.
The Norman Rockwell Museum would like to thank the following supporters and sponsors of the Museum’s digital presence:
Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation; Dr. Robert C. & Tina Sohn Foundation; Elephant Rock Foundation, and Berkshire Bank