Jambo! School Tours
Imaginative strategies and touchable objects--such as textiles, ceramic vessels and wooden sculptures--help young audiences learn to look at forms, materials, techniques and meanings of African art.

Highlights Tours
Tours of our special and ongoing exhibitions of traditional and contemporary African art.

Africa in Motion
The National Museum of African Art has incorporated visual arts programming into its museum education to create an invigorating and stimulating learning environment in which children, adults and families can discover and appreciate the profound cultural traditions of Africa.

Watch Kankouran West African Dance Company performing in the museum.

African Art at Your Site
Day and time by arrangement
1 hour
Museum representatives travel to classrooms, community groups or senior centers to introduce audiences to African art. The program site must be within 20 miles of the museum. Please allow one month to schedule your request. For schools, please schedule only one class per presentation.