What is Mummies and Masterpieces?

Mummies and Masterpieces is a unique program that enhances adult and child learning through museum masterpieces. It is a product of the various educational experiences that inspired Founder/Director Lauren Perlman throughout her educational career.  After attending and graduating from the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaways, Stern College for Women and Bank Street School of Education, and teaching at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, the Churchill School, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she felt the need to integrate all that she had learned into a program that enhances learning in visual, hands-on ways.

Why do we need a program such as this one?

The latest research has shown that children and adults have various learning styles and need more than one kind of entryway through which to learn.  For example, Howard Gardner, renowned Doctor of Education at Harvard University, recognized worldwide for his Theory of Multiple Intelligences has said, “People possess every intelligence in varying strengths, giving everyone a unique ‘profile’ of intelligences…Unfortunately, most schools and teachers emphasize the linguistic and logicalmathematic perspectives at the expense of other areas…. An awareness of multiple intelligences can suggest to teachers various ways to present the same material.” 

This idea, in addition to those from a multitude of other researchers, underscores the fact that creative arts programs are not a luxury - they are a necessity for those who seek to provide the most meaningful and effective learning environment for their students.

Please see our list of programs on the following pages.  Try a new one or sign up for an old favorite!  Remember, early bookings guarantee preferred dates.  When booking school programs, please note that classes must not exceed twenty-two students, and classes may not be combined.  This is for the benefit of your children!

We thank you for your interest in Mummies and Masterpieces and we look forward to planning wonderful programs with you this year.