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K-12 Tours

School Group Visits

The Hammer’s conversation-based tours emphasize close-looking and collaborative meaning-making, and align with SEL and ELA standards. Our tours cultivate five standards-aligned skills: observation, analysis, integrating contextual knowledge, presenting ideas, and collaborative comprehension.

The Hammer offers a wide range of artworks for students to discuss, including special exhibitions that explore contemporary social, political and cultural issues, and the Hammer Contemporary Collection, the Armand Hammer Collection, and the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden on UCLA’s campus. Tours are led by Student Educators, UCLA students from diverse disciplines who bring unique perspectives to the artwork on view.

To inquire about availability, please email Sonja Cayetano at tours@hammer.ucla.edu.

Frequently Asked Questions About K-12 Tours (PDF)

Planning your tour

Tours are one hour long and include discussions of 3-4 artworks. If you’d like to visit the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden on UCLA’s campus, please note that this is an 8-minute drive or 30-minute walk from the Hammer Museum.

For ideas for activities to complete prior to or after your tour, take a look at our Getting Started with Contemporary Art guide on our K–12 Teachers and Students page.

Scheduling Your Tour

Book your tour at least three weeks in advance of your preferred visit date. To schedule your tour and learn more about booking, click the link below.

Book K–12 Tours

Note: these forms are best viewed from a computer, iPad, or iPhone. Android users may have issues with the form.

A member of the Academic Programs team will follow up with you once your request has been submitted. Tour requests are subject to availability.

Questions? Please call (310) 443-7041 or email tours@hammer.ucla.edu.

Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts

School groups of 20 students or fewer can request to view works in The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, which comprises more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books dating from the Renaissance to the present. The all-new Grunwald Center is now open by appointment only, Monday–Friday, 10am–4pm. For further information or to schedule a visit, please email grunwald@hammer.ucla.edu or call 310-443-7078.

Academic Programs at the Hammer Museum are supported by the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation and the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation. Additional support is provided by Mary Kitchen and Jonathan Orszag, Babyletto, The Brotman Foundation of California, City National Bank, Ellen & Teddy Schwarzman, Jay Meredith Stein & Josh Zwass, and friends of the Hammer Museum's Kids Art Museum Project (K.A.M.P.).