Can going to an art museum make elementary school students better learners? It can if they are participating in Thinking Through Art, an innovative partnership uniting the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), Boston Public Schools (BPS), and Visual Understanding in Education (VUE), a nonprofit educational research group committed to improving student learning through Visual Thinking Strategies. The VTS curriculum, created by VUE cofounders Abigail Housen and Philip Yenawine, is based on thirty years of research shaped by Rudolf Arnheim's writing about perception and thought, Jean Piaget's observations on aesthetic development, and Lev Vgotsky's theories about the relationship between language, thinking, and social learning.