Art Museum
A
webquest designed for 4th and 5th grade students
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You have been chosen to buy artwork for a brand new art museum. You will
need to buy many different kinds of artwork but still stay in budget. You
will also have to design where the artwork will go in your museum.
Your
task:
You will have $1,000,000 to spend on artwork.
Three-dimensional artwork costs $100,000 a piece and two-dimensional artwork
costs $50,000 a piece. Don't overspend!
You must have many different kinds of artwork
including pieces from the 20th century (1901 - 2000), the 19th century (1801 -
1900), and ancient art (the date has B.C. behind the number).
You will then decide where your pieces will be
placed in your museum so that everyone can see them.
How to
start:
- Look through the pages to find the artwork you want to buy. Use the purchase order sheet to write down your purchases. Write down the work's title, date, and artist. It may look like this: Francis Brinley, 1729 John Smibert. The title is always underlined.
Remember you only have $1,000,000 and three-dimensional work costs $100,000 and two-dimensional work costs $50,000.
- Draw a picture of your purchases so that you can use them in your museum. Make sure they are neat and label them with the title, date, and artist.
Layout your museum!
- Cut out your pictures of the artwork and place them into your museum layout. Think about how people need to walk around the artwork. Three-dimensional pieces need to be seen from all sides where two-dimensional pieces are usually hanging from the wall.
How did you do?
- Check your work against the Art Critic's Report to see how well you did.
Follow up.
- What was it like to be in charge of a whole museum?
- What do you know now that you didn't know before?
Credits
Created 13 June 2001
Last Updated March 2005 by Trisha Armstrong