Traveling Trunks
Bring the Museum to Your Classroom
Please note: Traveling Trunks are unavailable for check out at this time.
Traveling Trunks. What are they?
Designed for ages 3-6, each Early Childhood Traveling Trunk introduces art to children and develop visual literacy. Playful themes include: Animals, Colors, Counting, Faces, Food, Nature, Opposites, Shapes, Textures, and Things that Go! Inside the trunk, you'll find a range of touch materials, art activities, full-color posters of works of art, digital images of works of art, and a fully-illustrated curriculum booklet to encourage play, collaboration, vocabulary growth, and the development of fine motor skills.
- Early Childhood Traveling Trunks are FREE for early childhood classrooms.
- Trunks are available year-round.
- Trunks may be checked out for up to 6 weeks.
- Borrower must arrange dates and times to pick up and return trunk to the Museum.
- Borrower agrees to check all items against the inventory list before the trunk is returned.
- Borrower agrees to pay for lost or damaged items.
- Trunks must be returned by the specified due date, or a late fee of $5/day will apply.
What is it?
Please note: Traveling Trunks are unavailable for check out at this time.
Take your students on journey through time and culture with a SAMA Traveling Trunk. Designed to increase student exposure to the arts and based on each area of the the Museum's collections of world art, Traveling Trunks help students develop a deeper understanding of history and culture through hands-on art experiences. Each trunk contains specially designed costumes based on works of art from the Museum’s collections, reproductions of artworks with accompanying descriptions, books, lesson plans, music, and hands-on objects.
- Traveling Trunks are available for Pre-K-12 classrooms.
- Trunks are available year-round.
- Trunks may be checked out for up to 6 weeks.
- Borrower must arrange dates and times to pick up and return trunk to the Museum.
- Borrower agrees to check all items against the inventory list before the trunk is returned.
- Borrower agrees to pay for lost or damaged items.
- Trunks must be returned by the specified due date or a late fee of $5 per day will apply.
Available Traveling Trunks:
- Japan
- Early America
- Ancient Greece and Rome
- Ancient Egypt
- Latin American Folk Art
- China
- Oceania
- Ancient Near East
- India
- Spanish Colonial Art
- Contemporary Art
