Welcome to SMART

Student Multimedia Art Research Tool

SMART is a multimedia project that students use in the gallery to encourage them to find out more about works on display and to uncover their own responses.

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Tate Modern’s multimedia project for schools enhances students’ gallery and classroom experience. The SMART guide provides art historical context and records students’ responses to artworks in Tate’s collection.

Visiting students each take a handheld computer round Tate Modern. This multimedia guide offers film clips, audio and images, interactive games and music to help you find out more about the art on display.

As well as being a source of information, the guide also prompts students to respond to work on display by recording audio clips, making digital drawings, and texting notes.

Classes can choose from a number of themed trails for their visit to correspond to their current projects back at school. Back in the classroom or at home, students can download a full digital record of their tour, including all of their drawings, audio recordings and writing, as well as the narrator’s script and images of the works they looked at.

Get ideas for using content produced in the gallery for classroom projects.

The SMART guide has been developed for students aged 13-18 (key stage 3 and 4, GCSE and A-level) but may also benefit younger students. Booking information.

The themes you can choose from during your SMART visit include:

• Abstraction
• Art and world events
• Artists at work
• Emotions
• Gender
• Landscape
• Life and death
• Music in art
• Portraits
• Remixing cultures

Download PDF of all trails (PDF, 8.95MB)

Trail maps which suggest themed routes round the gallery are available. If you would like to follow one of these trails, you can print out maps for your group from the trails PDF before your visit.