“We’re not coming up with a script for them,” said David R. Odo, the Museums’ director of student programs. “We are working with them as a group to think of a structure and a framework [for the tours], and each individual guide creates his or her own tour.”

Because guides can cater their tours to their own interests, each one will highlight different paintings, sculptures, and other works of art in the building. There are thousands of pieces each tour could highlight, and there are many arguments and presentations each tour could make, according to Krystle M.C. Leung ’15, a senior student guide.

“What we’re all trying to do is to balance the media [featured on each tour],” Leung said. “[The style] depends on what each of the guides is interested in.”

Edwin L. Whitman ’15 and Dylan F. Perese ’16, also student guides, are taking still another step to get involved with the Museums: They have been working on an app, called Sightlines, that guides visitors through the Museums with exercises, podcasts, and videos that feature Harvard affiliates discussing their favorite pieces in the collections.

The app aims to break down the preconceived idea that “you have to be a History of Art and Architecture concentrator” to feel at home in a museum, Perese said.

Through work like this, Museum administrators hope that undergraduates will benefit educationally from the renovated space, whether students visit the Museums with a professor or choose to ramp up their own involvement.

“We want every inch of this museum to feel like a classroom space, but we also hope that students... understand that this is a place where they can come for a moment in between,” Martinez said. “Maybe it’s the seven minutes in between Harvard classes—that might be enough for a student to move away from the hustle and bustle of their very busy lives.”