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Gallery 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 talks explore a special exhibition or particular collection, such as Antiquities, American, Asian, European, Modern and Contemporary art or Photography.

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

Special Exhibition Gallery Tours:


Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography

September 2, 8, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18 at noon; 5, 12, 19 at 1 pm
 


Stranger Than Fiction: Narrative in Works by Selected Contemporary Artists

October 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 16, 19, 22, 27 at noon; 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 at 1 pm
 


An American Century: 20th-Century Master Drawings from the Collection
 

October 20, 23, 26, 28, 30 at noon
 

Special Focus Gallery Tours:


Gods & Goddesses: The Ancient World & Beyond

September 2, 10, 12, 18, 21, 29 at noon
October 8, 12, 24 at noon

Impressionism

September 5, 11, 14, 22, 30 at noon

Art of Europe & the Americas

September 3, 7, 15, 23, 28 at noon

Asian Gallery

September 1, 9, 17, 19, 25 at noon
October 3, 15, 21, 31 at noon

Art & Ideas

September 4, 8, 16, 24, 26 at noon

American

October 2, 10, 29 at noon

European

October 6, 14, 17 at noon

 

 
     

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