Lesson Plan 1: Collections, Museums & Portable Art

This first series of learning activities focuses on learning from actual objects, by speculating and researching about their place in history and significance in people’s lives. These activities will help students to understand and question the reasons for collecting objects, displaying them in public collections, and the associated efforts of museum employees in making this happen

Lesson Plan 2: The Design of Storytelling

This second series of learning activities focuses on understanding the physical and storytelling qualities of these sixteenth-century boxwood sculptures: how they were imagined, designed, and manufactured. Story structure, spatial reasoning and visualization, and other applications of mathematics  – knowledge and skills that students use daily  – all contributed to the production of these prayer beads and altarpieces.

The online catalogue raisonné and digital photography made possible through the generous support of Thomson Works of Art