The Education Department offers creative activities and accompanying resources on site and online. Creative activities are designed by local artists. We also offer an Activity Kit for families and elementary schools. Our Movements resource offers articles, exploration questions and video clips on key themes related to the current exhibition.

The Education Department offers free on-site group visits for school groups from elementary to university, community groups and language schools. The group visit can be combined with a creative activity.

Accessibility and inclusion of all individuals is of the utmost importance at PHI. With an approach based on respect and care, we view learning as a mutually engaging force.

Members from the PHI team lead a number of different long-term initiatives, special projects, and research projects, that are linked to the exhibition program. This section highlights these projects and will keep you informed on their development.

Our innovative pedagogical approach has been the subject of several contributions to peer-reviewed journals. To read our reflections on this topic, check out the following articles:

• The Poetry of Travelling Concepts: A Movement-Based Pedagogy (Art Education in Canadian Museums (Book): Practices in Action, July 5, 2024)
• Experimenting Interpretation: Methods for Developing and Guiding a “Vibrant Visit” (Journal of Museum Education, Volume 46, No. 3, September 2, 2021)
• Concepts in Movement: A poetry-based method for group visits within contemporary art exhibitions (Canadian Review of Art Education, December 11, 2021)
• Nada Act 1: A String Architecture (Canadian Review of Art Education, December 11, 2021) 
• Embodied Dialogue: Group Learning and Collaboration at DHC Art Foundation for Contemporary Art (Muséologies, Volume 9, No. 1, 2018)