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Connect your class to the Hammer Museum’s exhibitions or collections by requesting a guided tour.

Learn more about our tour offerings and how to make a reservation. To discuss the content of your tour, email academicprograms@hammer.ucla.edu.

College groups can request a visit to 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 more information, please email grunwald@hammer.ucla.edu or call 310-443-7078.

Hammer educators can support you in integrating Hammer exhibitions, collections, and resources into your curriculum beyond a single visit. If you are interested in creating further curricular connections, email academicprograms@hammer.ucla.edu.

Hammer educators facilitate gallery-based sessions focused on building observation, visual analysis, and perspective-taking skills for groups of David Geffen School of Medicine students and residents. This programming also emphasizes building awareness of bias, and fostering community between med students. If you would like to learn more or plan a session, email academicprograms@hammer.ucla.edu.

The Hammer Museum hosts the annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium every fall. We also host academic symposia in conjunction with select exhibitions.

Watch the recording of The Political Body in Latina and Latin American Art, a symposium that explored key themes in the 2017 exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985.

This guide uses the Hammer Museum’s Armand Hammer Collection and the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden to illustrate arts-integrated teaching strategies and suggested assignments and themes to integrate into humanities college courses.

Download Guide (PDF, 3.3MB, 10 pp.)

Download Appendix A: Armand Hammer Collection Works on View by Theme (PDF, 52KB, 2pp.)

Download Appendix B:  Murphy Sculpture Garden Works by Theme (PDF, 84KB 5pp.)

Access 1,000+ conversations, performances, artist profiles, and more on Hammer Channel, where new content from the Hammer's public programs is added weekly. Hammer Channel offers innovative tools to search, clip, and share not only the programs themselves but precise moments within. Hammer Channel was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Explore Hammer Channel

Explore 50,000 prints, photographs, paintings, and more on Hammer Online Collections, launched as part of a grant initiative to bring the Hammer's collections to a global audience, jointly sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Perenchio Foundation. Visitors can access artwork images, create their own checklists using the My Collection tool, find related Hammer Channel videos, and more from the Hammer's five collections spanning the Renaissance to the present.

The Hammer Museum received a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2013 to develop web-based resources about significant past exhibitions and selected aspects of our collections. The resulting digital archives present a dynamic repository of research materials, including zoomable, high-resolution images of artworks, artist biographies, scholarly essays, exhibition documentation, and many other complementary resources.