Grades 9-12 Programs
Visiting The Heckscher is an annual tradition for high schools across LI!
REGISTER NOW for 2024-2025!
Join us for an in-person or virtual field trip, designed specifically with your students’ needs in mind! A broad range of exhibitions are available for your students to discover. All programs are BOCES aidable.
How to Book a Program:
- Online: Go to “BOOK NOW!” below to complete a Request Form. Once your form is submitted, a staff member will call you within 5 business days to confirm and schedule.
- By Email: Email education@heckscher.org for additional assistance.
Looking for a program for students with special needs? Learn more
Questions?
Email education@heckscher.org or call 631.380.3292.
In-Museum Field Trips
Explore the exhibitions with a Museum Educator as they lead engaging conversations. Group discussions challenge students to think critically and look carefully, developing their visual literacy skills and encouraging them to express their unique points of view.Â
Participating in Long Island’s Best and looking to explore the Museum and help your students generate ideas? Upon request, this program will focus on Long Island’s Best. Teachers participating in LI Best will also be provided with unlimited online access to a video overview of the high school juried exhibition. The video covers topics including how to get inspired, submitting artwork, and more!
Scheduling:
60 minutes
Wednesday – Friday
10 – 11 am, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Pricing:
$12 per student (minimum 15 students or $180)
NEW! Enhance your Visit with an Outdoor Soundwalk
Extend your visit with a soundwalk experience before or after your field trip! The Museum has two new outdoor soundwalks for students to explore. One is just steps outside the Museum in scenic Heckscher Park and the other is at the nearby historic home and studio of modernist artists Arthur Dove and Helen Torr, the Dove/Torr Cottage (located at 30 Centershore Road, Centerport, NY).
The soundwalk in Heckscher Park uncovers the history of the park and the sounds of nature that surround the Museum. At the Dove/Torr Cottage, students will learn the story of Helen Torr and Arthur Dove and explore the sounds of nature around the property that inspired her art.Â
These outdoor self-guided tours are free and available all year round in the Museum’s digital guide in the Bloomberg Connects app. To begin, students and teachers may simply scan the QR codes on the outdoor signage at each location using their phones. Or, if you prefer to look at the soundwalks before your visit, download the Museum’s digital guide in Bloomberg Connects to get started today!
The soundwalks were created with support from a Dorothy C. Radgowski Learning Through Women’s Achievement in the Arts Grant, a joint effort of Where Women Made History (WWMH), and HAHS at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Virtual Field Trips
Explore an exhibition with a Museum Educator as they lead engaging conversations. Group discussions challenge students to think critically and look carefully, developing visual literacy skills and encouraging them to express their unique points of view.
Participating in Long Island’s Best and looking to explore the Museum and help your students generate ideas? Upon request, this program will focus on Long Island’s Best. Teachers participating in LI Best will also be provided with unlimited online access to a video overview of the high school juried exhibition. The video covers topics including how to get inspired, submitting artwork, and more!
Scheduling:
40 minutes (Zoom or Google Meet)
Mondays & Tuesdays
Times are flexible
Pricing:
$200 per class of approximately 25 students
We just wanted to say THANK YOU! The virtual field trips were so good! Everyone has been group texting on how great the experience was. We really appreciate the extra effort and work that goes into doing this virtually. I am so glad it worked out and can’t wait to see what our students create for Long Island’s Best!
– Vanessa Albaneze, Art Teacher, John F. Kennedy HS, Bellmore
[My Heckscher virtual field trip] was a wonderful experience! The staff presented content in a variety of ways and they discussed topics on both a broad and personal level, which held my students’ attention and allowed them to share their individual stories. I would definitely recommend Heckscher programs to other art teachers!
– Allyson Uttendorfer, AP Art and Design & Photography teacher, Half Hollow Hills HS East
NAHS 6x6 Collaborative
CREATE, COLLABORATE, EXHIBIT!
2025 marks the 11th annual National Art Honor Society 6×6 Collaborative! This program brings National Art Honor Society (NAHS) Chapters together to collaborate, create and exhibit! Students from different high schools meet for a Museum experience, learn about artwork on view and ultimately create and exhibit their work in the Museum in the spring in the form of a 6″ x 6″ mini work of art!
Get involved this school year!
Thank you to our Generous Sponsors!
Leadership Gifts for Museum Discovery Programs are provided by
- The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation
- Suffolk County
through County Executive Edward P. Romaine, and Legislator Stephanie Bontempi - Frederic R. Coudert Foundation
- Nadon Trust/Margy Hargraves and Family
- The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
- Jefferson Family Charitable Foundation
- The Alpha Omega Charitable Foundation
- Frank J. Antun Foundation
- New York Community Bank Foundation
- The Rea Charitable Trust
