July 2, 2025
There’s No Party like a Volunteer Party
In short, our volunteers make the Museum a magical place to visit, and I was honored to spend the last week celebrating their work.
Exhibitions Explained by Our Docents
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.
Private Group Tours
Offering self-guided visits and docent-led tours, the Woodson Art Museum gives your group options to create a personalized museum experience.
School Tours & Field Trips
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.
Make your experience at the Woodson Art Museum a meaningful and enjoyable experience
Visit our Tour Guidelines page to learn more about our tour offerings.
Request a Tour
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Every visit to the Woodson offers new opportunities to learn and grow.
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June 25, 2025
Transformative Experiences in the Gallery
One of my favorite things to ask people is “What is a transformative or memorable art experience you’ve had?” I love talking about art. I love looking at art. I love learning about art. I also love hearing from others...
June 18, 2025
Couch It
For years, a mint green, mid-century modern couch has occupied the director’s office at the Woodson Art Museum
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 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.
Learn More About our Exhibitions from our Docents
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.
Scheduling Guidelines for Tours
When you’re scheduling a tour at the Woodson Art Museum, please keep in mind the following guidelines:
- We organize tours for groups of 10 or more.
- Docent-led tours should be scheduled at least 3 weeks in advance.
- Assess any specific needs within your group and include this in the form when scheduling a tour.
- Schedule tours between 9 am and 3 pm, Tuesday through Friday, and from 12 pm to 4 pm on Saturday and Sunday.
- Private tours generally last 1 hour. Find recommended school tour lengths below.
Educators and chaperones: prepare for your Museum experience with these additional suggestions and guidelines.
Recommended Group Tour Lengths
- Pre-K through 2nd grade: 45 minutes
- 3rd through 5th grade: 1 hour 15 minutes
- 6th through 8th grade: 1 hour 15 minutes
- 9th through 12th grade: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Group tours: 1 hour 30 minutes
More About School Tours
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:
- Critical thinking
- Close observation
- Visual analysis
- Creativity
- Art appreciation
- Articulating and supporting opinions
- Confidence
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
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.
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