Tate Modern
Family Tour
Work: Lobster Telephone
Artist: Salvador Dali

Tate Modern’s Family Tour features a range of approaches designed to keep kids on their toes. Focused in one section of the Museum, known as Landscape/Matter/Environment, the tour was organized around a gallery “Trail” with clues that guide children and their caregivers from object to object. Although scripted, the narrator is conversational and asks questions, uses plays on words, and encourages active looking. The narrator is accompanied by the “Trail Team,” a group of public school children, aged seven to eleven, whose recorded impressions and observations are integrated into the tour. In this stop for Dali’s Lobster Telephone, the friendly narrator explains the meaning of Surrealism and a charming young boy named Leo reads a poem written about the work by a young girl, “over the telephone of course.”