b'academic engagement:teaching andlearning with the collectionby making appointments to view art in storage andexamine object and research files. These activitiesare made possible by a collaborative team of staff in education, curatorial and collections management.Every year there are classes that visit the museummultiple times, some weekly, raising opportunities to build on shared learning with each museum experi-ence. These included ARH 265: Transnational Histories of American Art and Identity, 1860-1950; CHM 100: Chemistry of Art Objects; DAN 171: Dance History: Political Bodies from the Stage to the Page; SDS/CSC 109: Communicating with Data; LSS 245: Place Frames: Photography as Method in Landscape Stud-ies; HST 252: Women and Gender in Modern Europe, AS A TEACHING MUSEUM,SCMA prioritizes student1789-1918; and PSY 268: The Human Side of Climate learning through coursework across disciplines. InChange. Since 1995, the museum-based course PHI 2019-2020, 242 academic groups visited the museum,233: Aesthetics has been taught with an integration of serving more than 3,600 college and university stu- museum components by Nalini Bhushan, Andrew W. dents, including virtually when the college pivoted toMellon Professor in the Humanities and professor of remote mode in March. Eighty-eight Smith Collegephilosophy. For the fall 2019 course offering, she and courses, as well as others from the Five Colleges andacademic educator Charlene Shang Miller significant-regional colleges, integrated museum visits and ly revised the museum sessions to engage students learning. More important than the numbers, though, deeply in various interactive art and museum activities is the quality of the students experiences. Each as they considered questions such as: How arefacilitated visit is thoughtfully designed in consultationworks of art like and unlike other objects in the worlds with faculty to support their learning goals for the that humans inhabit and make, like and unlike other students and make specific connections to course human projects? What capacities are called uponmaterial. Through inclusive museum education in the creation and understanding of such works? pedagogical practices, students hone their skills inWhat is the role of art and the artist in contemporary sustained looking, critical thinking and interpretationsociety? The weekly museum visits were constructed of works of art.to immerse students in multimodal experiencesAdditionally, bringing art from storage for encompassing various learning styles and exploring weekly installations in the museums Teaching art across time, geographies and cultures. Gallery for a variety of classes expands access to theIn spring 2020, Anna Botta, professor of Italian connecting people to ideascollection, as do visits to the Cunningham Center forstudies and of world literatures, and Tom Roberts, the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. assistant professor of Russian, East European andStudents can delve more deeply into the collection Eurasian studies, taught a new seminar, WLT 341: 38'