What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

Open educational resources are educational resources that are in the public domain or are permitted for free use by others.

As an educator, I consistently use many of these museum resources in my classroom. These resources are written by highly knowledgeable museum educators for use with students.  I’ve spent many hours researching the available resources online and will be adding to this list in the coming months.

Click on the image to be taken to that museums educator resource web page.

You can also search a curated collection of many museum resources through the link below.

Museum Resource Search

The link will take you to a google search site where I curated the collection of resources.

Let me know how you use these resources in your classroom and if you have a favorite that I should be adding to my list.  Looking forward to hearing from you!

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Art Institute of Chicago

Museum of Arts and Design

National Portrait Gallery

Cooper Hewitt Museum

These resources include the ability to create an account to store your research results.

Smithsonian Learning Lab

Library of Congress

Google Arts & Culture

These resources feature contemporary artists and may contain mature content.  As always, please review prior to sharing with your students.

Art Babble

Smart History

Art 21

Ted Ed educational videos and lessons.