About

As part of 'American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Children's Art Centre presents The Met for Kids, an interactive space for young visitors highlighting the exhibition themes of leisure and entertainment. Children can explore and learn through a range of experiences including hands-on activities, screenings of popular animations and an illustrated timeline.

For children to enjoy their visit to the exhibition there are children's art work labels throughout the exhibition, a free activity trail featuring images of art works on display and an audio tour guide will be available just for kids.

Fun and games

Amusement parks, city gardens, the movies and the beach were the popular places for fun and games from the late 1800s. Young visitors are invited to draw themselves enjoying their favourite free time activities on film reel-inspired activity sheets.

Animation lounge

In the 1920s and 1930s, New York City was home to a busy film industry that attracted filmmakers and movie stars from Hollywood and around the globe. An afternoon at the cinema became a popular and inexpensive form of entertainment for New Yorkers with the opening of the New York City's Regent Theatre in 1913.

Children and families can enjoy watching screenings of popular New York animations from the era, such as Felix the Cat, Popeye, Betty Boop and Gertie the Dinosaur.

Timeline

An illustrated timeline, from 1870 to 1930, gives children insights into the exciting times of the American Impressionists and Realists through a range of fascinating facts, selected for their appeal and relevance to the exhibition themes.

Reading parlour

Young visitors can find out more about the artists and the themes in the exhibition through a range of children's books and publications.

Audio Tour For Children

The Queensland Art Gallery presents a free audio tour for children and families to enjoy visits to the 'American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from The Met', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Met for Kids audio tour highlights eight art works that have been selected especially for children to find out more about the artists and art works in the exhibition. There are paintings of people, cities, beaches and the countryside by some of America's most important painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and paintings by major Australia's artists from the same time too. Children can also collect an art activity trail from the ticket desk and visit The Met for Kids activity space in the Pelican Pool Lounge for even more to see and do.

The tour can be downloaded from the link below, or at the Queensland Art Gallery through Wi-Fi or 3G network. To download the files right click, 'save target as' / 'save link as' and save to directory. Please see signage at the Queensland Art Gallery information desks for instructions to download via wireless connection. An audio tour flyer showing the locations of works in the tour is available to collect from the information desks.

This tour was made possible by the generous support of Triple M, Brisbane

Audio Tour