Guided group tours last approximately one hour and explore the museum’s permanent collection and special exhibitions through interactive discussions and activities. Artist educators work closely with teachers and group leaders prior to their museum visit to craft an engaging gallery experience examining Warhol’s art, life, and legacy and relevant social and cultural issues. Tours can be adapted to meet the specific learning needs and goals of each group.

Guided tour fees

Group admission plus $50 artist educator fee per fifteen people. Two chaperones per fifteen students are free.

Guided tour themes

• Andy Warhol’s Life and Times: This basic tour introduces Warhol’s biography and explores highlights of the museum’s permanent collection, including works of art, film, and archival objects.
• Warhol’s Artistic Practice: Collecting, Collaborating, Reproducing, Documenting, and Experimenting: Dive deep into Warhol’s unique approach to artmaking, exploring the artist’s work in an array of media and styles across his career.
• Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History: This tour traces Warhol’s queer identity and romantic relationships against the backdrop of the historical gay rights movement in the United States.
• Special Exhibition Tour: This tour focuses on the current exhibition on view at the museum. 

Warhol Workshops last approximately 3 hours (including a 1/2 hour lunch) and explore the museum’s permanent collection and special exhibitions through interactive discussions and hands-on artmaking in The Factory. Museum educators can work with teachers and group leaders to adapt workshops to meet the specific learning needs and goals of each group.

Warhol Workshop fees

Workshops are $450 (includes admission and materials) for up to thirty students. We charge an additional $5 materials fee per student for up to five additional students. Groups with more than thirty-five students must book an additional workshop (for up to sixty students). Two chaperones per fifteen students are free.

Warhol Workshop Descriptions:

• Pop Portraits: Examine the many ways in which Warhol created portraits throughout his career, from painting and polaroids to silkscreening and selfies. Students will create a silkscreen print of a contemporary Pop culture icon.
• Exploring Warhol’s Print Process: This advanced printmaking workshop introduces students to Warhol’s multilayered screen prints as well as his stamped and stenciled early commercial work, exploring a range of processes and the visual impact of repetition and pattern. Studio projects include silkscreen printing and rubber-stamping.
• Sensory Friendly Workshop: Designed for people with developmental disabilities of all ages to experience the museum. This tour and workshop combination includes visits to the galleries and hands on art making inspired by Warhol’s artistic practice. Workshops are designed to be both accessible and consider the needs of all participants. Prior to the workshop, educators will work with you to create custom images to be screen-printed on t shirts, tote bags, and/or posters.
• From Pop to Abstraction: Andy Warhol is best known for his Pop Art masterpieces, but he also created a range of abstract artworks! Students will learn about Warhol’s experimentation with abstraction and his innovative use of materials as they create a work that combines the surprises of abstraction with silkscreen printing. Project choices are inspired by Warhol’s Oxidations and other elements of abstract art.
• Cultural Connections: Explore consumerism, media exploitation, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+ identity, class consciousness, religion, and other sociopolitical themes in relation to Andy Warhol’s art and life. Conversations will vary depending on artworks on view and the interests of the visiting group. Students will use these discussions as catalysts to explore their own identities through mixed media screen printing in the studio, representing themselves and the world around them.
• KAWS + Warhol: Students will explore the overlapping themes and artistic approaches of two of history’s most recognizable Pop Artists. Both artists created work that critiqued and commented on pop culture, even as they brought recognizable mainstream images into a fine art context to change and subvert their common meanings. Students will learn about appropriation, repetition, and commercialism and create their own artwork in the studio. (Available May 21, 2024-January 20, 2025).

Virtual Field Trips
Experience The Warhol from your home or classroom! Through live videoconferencing, participants can discuss works of art in our galleries, watch presentations, and participate in hands-on art making activities while sharing in two-way conversations with museum educators. Explore our Virtual Field Trip Themes.

Payment for group visits is due in full upon arrival. Free bus parking is available nearby at Carnegie Science Center. Please indicate if you require bus parking on your group visit request form. The Warhol Café is available for lunch, refreshments, and light fare. The museum offers limited seating for groups that bring their own lunch to the museum. Catering for groups can also be arranged through The Warhol’s special events department. For more information on group visits, contact groups@warhol.org.