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Gallery Tours
Special Exhibition Tours | Focus Tours | Family Tours
 

During your visit to the Museum, you are invited to join a docent-led gallery tour. Gallery tours are informative and eye-opening. They provide an opportunity to experience and discuss a selection of artworks in a relaxed, informal setting. Gallery tours are free with Museum admission, and begin in the lobby at the State Street entrance. 

 

Docent-Led Tours of Special Exhibitions
Daily at noon. Focus tours explore a special exhibition or particular collection such as Antiquities, American, Asian, European, Modern and Contemporary art or Photography. Please meet at the State Street entrance.

 

An Overview of the Collection
Daily at 1pm
Highlight tours cover a variety of works from the Museum's collection. Please meet at the State Street entrance.

 


Special Exhibition Tours:

 

California Dreaming: Plein-Air Painting from San Francisco to San Diego


June - 12, 13, 15 at noon; 16 at 1pm

 


Labour and Wait


July - 11, 13, 14, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 31 at noon
August - 4, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 28, 30 at noon
September - 1, 4, 5, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21 at noon; 8, 15, 22 at 1pm

 


Focus Tours:

 

Asian Collection


June - 19, 22, 26, 28, 30 at noon
July - 3, 4, 6, 9, 20, 30 at noon
August - 1, 3, 8, 17, 27 at noon
September - 6, 8, 12, 22, 25, 27 at noon

 


European Collection


June - 11, 14, 16, 20, 23, 25, 29 at noon
July - 5, 7, 12, 16, 24 at noon
August - 6, 15, 23 at noon
September - 3, 7, 11, 13, 15, 19, 24, 26, 28, 29 at noon

 


Family Tours:

 

Heroes and Legends in Antiquities

Families are invited to discover the magical stories and legends of ancient times contained in artworks from the Museum's Antiquities collection. Docents unlock the mysteries as visitors take on their own heroic quest around the world and across time in search of gods, myths, and monsters.


June - 18, 21, 27 at noon; 23, 30 at 1pm
July - 2, 7, 10, 14, 21, 26, 28 at 1pm
August - 2, 4, 10, 11, 13, 18, 21, 25, 29, 31 at 1pm

 

 

 
     
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