Curriculum

Educator Resources

Articles & Books

Boys, Jos and Ann Boddington, eds. Museums and Higher Education Working Together Challenges and Opportunities. Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9780815399391

Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009. ISBN 9781596915992

Ducady, Geralyn. “Using Objects in Teaching.” Process: A Blog for American History. Organization of American Historians. https://www.oah.org/process/using-objects-in-teaching/.

Findlen, Paula, ed.. Early Modern Things. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9781138483149

Findlen, Paula. “Objects of History: The Past Materialized.” History and Theory 59, no. 2 (2020): 270–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12158.

Kador, Thomas. Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education. UCL Press. 2025. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212322/1/Object-Based-Learning.pdf.

Kretzschmar, Sabine and Colleen Snyder. “Art to Go: Sparking Wonder with the Littlest Learners.” in Cultural Heritage Conservation for Early Learners: Outreach and Engagement with the Next Generation edited by Ellen Chase, Laura Hoffman, and Matthew Lasnoski. Routledge: 2024. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003333210-10/art-go-sabine-kretzschmar-colleen-snyder

Miller, Peter N. History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500. Ithaca (N. Y.): Cornell University Press, 2017.

Digital Projects

Janson, Jonathan, Essential Vermeer 5.0. https://www.essentialvermeer.com/. Accessed November 6, 2025.

Resource Collections for Teaching with Objects

Cleveland Teaching Collaborative Resources on Teaching with Objects

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