2020 was a challenging time to navigate mental health and wellness. With a global pandemic, an emotionally charged U.S. presidential election, and a spike in racially motivated violence, students maneuvered trauma associated with these events in unprecedented ways. The cumulative challenges of this year motivated museum educators at the Cleveland Museum of Art to focus on connections between PreK-12 social-emotional learning (SEL) and objects in our museum collection. This article focuses on specific strategies used to support social-emotional wellness when facilitating virtual school programming and teaching with museum objects. It also discusses lingering questions museum educators must examine as we teach in a post-2020 world.