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Make the most of your visit to the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum with a scheduled tour. There’s always something new to learn from our ever-changing exhibitions.
Offering self-guided visits and docent-led tours, the Woodson Art Museum gives your group options to create a personalized museum experience.
Enhance your classroom’s curriculum with a field trip to the Woodson Art Museum! We organize customized class tours that explore current exhibitions while focusing on specific skills and learning objectives.
Visit our Tour Guidelines page to learn more about our tour offerings.
Fill out the form below to request a tour. After we receive your request, one of our team members will contact you shortly to confirm scheduling.
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Every visit to the Woodson offers new opportunities to learn and grow.
If you’re interested in bringing a larger group to the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, make sure you get the most out of your visit with our self-guided and docent-led art tours in Wausau.
Encounter Art Up Close with Docent-Led Experiences
If you’re interested in bringing a larger group to the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, make sure you get the most out of your visit with our docent-led and self-guided art tours in Wausau.
During one of our docent-led art tours in Wausau, an expertly trained docent will guide your group throughout the Museum, highlighting changing exhibitions and artwork from our permanent collection. You and your group will learn about the historical context and artistic features of select artworks to better interpret and appreciate them, and your docent also helps you understand each exhibition as a whole.
When you’re scheduling a tour at the Woodson Art Museum, please keep in mind the following guidelines:
Educators and chaperones: prepare for your Museum experience with these additional suggestions and guidelines.
We invite your class to participate in as many experiences and art tours in Wausau at the Woodson Art Museum as you’d like. Each tour will focus on the current exhibition, and we can tailor the details of your tour to support specific classroom curriculum. Include these details when filling out the initial form, and we’ll discuss them further when we contact you to set up your tour.
When you schedule a docent-led school tour, our docents will help facilitate personal encounters with our artwork through storytelling and interactive questions. Our school tours can also be customized to include a hands-on art-making component related to exhibition themes.
With your help, our educators and docents work together to encourage these skills in students:
In addition to enhancing the personal lives and art appreciation for students, we want to help shape the next generation of Museum visitors and advocates for cultural experiences.
Self-guided visits give your group time for reflection and independent exploration. Your group can wander through our galleries at your own speed and spend more time with the artworks that interest you most.
Additionally, we have Activity Guides and Art Kits that are intended for all ages and are available to further enhance your experience. We also encourage visitors to bring a notepad and pencil to sketch or journal about their experience.
Check out these suggestions and prompts for a more meaningful self-guided tour at the Woodson Art Museum.
Discover what’s in store for your next visit to our galleries.
