Learn, explore, create, and grow as you discover new ways of interacting with art during the Museum’s program for its youngest visitors, with time for storytelling, looking at art, and art making.
Creatures of Flight
Investigate mythical birds in flight through ancient art, then create your own sculpture of an imaginary creature that flies.
Saint Louis Art Museum, 2020
Horus as a Falcon, 332–30 BC; Egyptian, Ptolemaic period; bronze; height: 6 1/8 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Miss Cornelia Scott in memory of her brother, George Eaton Scott 27:1939
Osiris, 664–332 BC; Egyptian, Late period; bronze with lapis lazuli inlay; height: 26 1/2 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase 224:1924
Isis, 332–30 BC; Egyptian, Ptolemaic period; faience; height: 1 7/8 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase 810:1940
Horus Child (Harpokrates), 664–332 BC; Egyptian, Late period; bronze with gold inlay; 5 1/4 x 1 3/4 x 3 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase 55:1922
Phoenix Standing on a Tortoise, 2nd century BC; Chinese, Western Han dynasty; earthenware with traces of pigment; 19 5/8 x 8 x 10 3/4 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Spink Asian Art Collection, Bequest of Edith J. and C. C. Johnson Spink 43:2014