The Guild Hall's exhibitions provide the perfect platform for learning about the arts through works on view and access to the artists who create them. Additionally, the Guild Hall Museum Admission is free thanks to Dime Community Bank and Landscape Details.

It's a guided tour of Guild Hall's exhibitions for up to 30 people. This fully-led tour invites visitors to look closely and discuss works on view. Tours last about an hour, and are led by the Lewis B. Cullman Associate Curator for Learning & Public Engagement and Education Staff.

To know more about the tour, please contact The Lewis B. Cullman Associate Curator for Learning & Public Engagement, Casey Dalene at cdalene@guildhall.org.

The Museum Director and Curators offer an in-depth tour for up to 30 people. This fully-led tour offers a scholarly insight into the work and practice of each exhibiting artist, as well as a history of the Guild Hall Museum.

To reserve a tour, please contact Museum Director/Chief Curator, Christina Strassfield at museum@guildhall.org at least three weeks before your visit.

Arranged specifically for teachers and students, this museum tour and the neighboring workshop offer a space to freely observe the work on view, discuss student observations and the history & crafts of the specific artists, and immediately apply that learning in an artist-led workshop. Visits last from an hour to ninety-minutes, and are led by Education Staff and a guest Teaching Artist.

To get more information, please contact The Pai Kenner Senior Associate for Learning & Public Engagement, Anthony Madonna at amadonna@guildhall.org.

The Family ARTivity Guide encourages families of all agas to collectively explore the Guild Hall galleries. Using the guide to observe and discuss the works on view, families will be introduced to various ways of engaging with the work, like drawing, discussing, writing, and even dancing! Family ARTivity Guides are available on site at Guild Hall, or digitally available to complete at home with our Matterport tours.

On Earth Day, people around the world work to help our planet. But April 22 isn't the only day this happens. Many people, including kids protect the Earth all year long. Read about some inspiring stories, then decide how you will make a difference.

Justin Sather, 10, from Los Angeles, California

When he was 5, Justin learned that his favorite animal’s habitat was in danger. So he hopped into action. He started a group called For the Love of Frogs and sold toy frogs to raise money. Justin said that frogs are an " indicator species" which means that when their habitat is threatened, they show signs of illness earlier than other animals. "Frogs are telling us our planet really needs your help, "Justin added.

Aadya Joshi, 16, from Mumbai, India

When Aadya was 13, she changed a junk lot in her neighborhood into a garden by using plants native to the area because native species attract native insects and animals. " The way to fix the habitat isn't just to plant any tree," she says. "It’s to replace what was torn down from that spot. " Now Aadya is leading the Right Green, an organization she founded to educate people about growing native plants and maintaining healthy ecosystems.

Xavier Baquero-Iglesias, 11, from Naples, Florida

While playing with friends on Astroturf (artificial grass), Xavier noticed it was super hot, much hotter than real grass. Xavier used his knowledge of science to figure out why. Then he invented SoleX Turf which uses the heat from Astroturf to make electricity. Xavier says his invention creates electricity in a way that’s less harmful to the environment, "I wanted to find a way to reduce the effects of climate change and the main way is to find renewable energy sources. "

Mankind’s attempts at achieving physical beauty is nothing new (the use of beauty products dates back to ancient Egypt and Rome) but the methods we use to achieve that “perfect look” have certainly evolved. Americans spend billions of dollars each year on a variety of beauty products. Some people will stop at nothing to maintain a youthful appearance. Just how far would you go to achieve that youthful glow?

For brave individuals with common aches and muscle pains, Ada Barak’s northern Israel spa (休闲健身中心) offers a slippery solution. In this $70 procedure, dozens of non-poisonous snakes are laid over the body, causing a variety of sensations. Small snakes, such as the milk snake, brush lightly over the skin; larger ones, such as corn and king snakes, provide deeper pressure to alleviate painful muscles.

Temperature treatment method dates back hundreds of years，and Europeans have long applied the use of “cold saunas” to restore the body and reduce chronic pain. The first spa in North America to offer “cryotherapy” was opened in 2010 by Sparkling Hill Resort in British Colombia, Canada. For $45, clients can participate in an icy 3-minute introductory session in which they expose themselves (under close supervision (监管)) to a-110℃ (-166°F) temperature room. Frozen stiff or re-energized? You’ll have to see for yourself.

When a pumice stone (浮石) isn’t enough, some people turn to fish to soften their heels. “Fish pedicures” are popular in Europe and Asia, and run between $40 and $100. The practice is slowly popping up in American salons—though some states have cited hygienic (清洁) issues and banned the treatment. Prior to a traditional pedicure, clients soak their feet in a pool with over 100 garra rufa fish (from the family Cypriniformes), which eat away dead skin to leave feet soft and refreshed.

When planes have a problem, analysts can usually figure out what went wrong by checking the plane’s “black box”, which records exactly what was happening to the plane at the time. Similarly, there’s something for people. Developed for astronauts, a small device celled the CPOD does for people what black boxes do for airplanes.

Under the leadership of Stanford University professor Greg Kovacs and engineers Carsten Mundt and Kevin Montgomery, researchers have developed a compact, portable and wearable device — a single piece of equipment that gathers a wide variety of vital signs of astronauts in space. About the size of a computer mouse, a CPOD is worn around the waist. It’s comfortable enough to be worn while sleeping. It’s non-invasive. It takes only minutes to don. Importantly, it can track a person’s physiologic functioning as they go about their normal routine — they don’t have to be tethered to some fixed device. It can store data for eight-hour periods for later downloading; alternatively, it can send the data wirelessly, in real time, to some other device.

“This is a new tool,” says Kovacs. “It allows monitoring of the body without invasion of the body — without tethering the person down, letting them go about their normal business.”

For one thing, the CPOD could notice problems before the astronauts even became aware of them. “We have alarms set in our device,” says Mundt. “If the heart rate goes, let’s say, above 170, the CPOD would beep, and then the astronaut would know it’s time to take it easy.” And, in the case of an emergency, the CPOD could provide vital signs within seconds — and it could quickly stream that information back to doctors on Earth. The CPOD typically tracks heart performance, blood pressure, respiration, temperature, and blood oxygen levels. Using three tiny accelerometers (加速计), it also tracks a person’s movements — it can tell whether they’re running, for example, or spinning or tumbling.

The CPOD, says Kovacs, is an elegant job of putting the current state of the art in sensors in a compact, integrated package. “It’s an incredibly versatile tool,” he says. “It’s a medical monitor that just about any doctor can use.” And it can be used just about anywhere. Despite its small size, he says, “it’s a huge thing — a really huge thing.”