Seminar Assignments by NEH Co Directors

A museum label is a great way to ask students to condense information into a very tight space. We created two different museum label assignments: one written from an  historian’s point of view and one written from an art historian’s point of view. Try one or both! Then, scroll down to see how the NEH participants used the NEH assignment to create their own.

1.) Museum Label Assignment (from an historian’s point of view) – Page Herrlinger

• Museum Label Assignment (historian)

2.) Museum Label Assignment (from an art historian’s point of view) – Natasha Goldman, Joachim Homann

• Museum Label Assignment

Assignments Written by Participant Teachers

Warsaw Ghetto Visual Culture – Matthew Bernstein

• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943: Mini-Archive and Image Analysis Assignment (PDF)
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Image Analysis 1 (PDF)
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Image Analysis 2 (PDF)
• Nazi Propaganda Analysis: Standards: History: Knowledge, Evaluate Points of View (PDF)

Museum Label Assignment: Judy Glickman Lauder Photographs – Lisa Krebs

• Museum Label Assignment: Judy Glickman Lauder Photographs (PDF; studio art)

What was Lost: Synagogues Destroyed During the Holocaust. – Audrey Reich

• What-was-Lost-Audrey-Reich-Papeir-mache-project (PDF)

Museum Label: Artistic Responses to Loss & Destruction (Grade 12) and Personal Monuments (Grade 7). Studio Art – Audrey Reich