Tours

Group Visits

If you plan to visit with a group eight or more, please schedule your visit in advance by contacting Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576. You can also download a Tour Request form and submit it via email. For group rates, please visit our hours & admission page. For information on group visits for K-12 students, please click here.

Docent Tours

The Harvard Art Museum offers two guided tours every weekday, which are free with admission. At 12:15pm each day, a docent will lead a "Focused Encounter" tour that focuses on a particular work, works, gallery, or theme. At 2pm each day, a docent will lead a "Highlights of the Collection" tour. Tours last from 40 minutes to an hour, and start in the lobby of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

Focused Encounter docent tours in November:

Monday, November 2 — Barbara Semerjian: Self Portraits: Up Close and Personal with Renoir, van Gogh, and Beckmann
Tuesday, November 3 — Shashi Chawla: Rhapsody in Blue
Wednesday, November 4 — Atholie Rosett: To Be Announced
Thursday, November 5 — Ann Heymann: Sketches in Oil, Models in Clay and Bronze
Friday, November 6 — Dorothy Gillerman: Viewing ACT UP New York at the Carpenter Center

Monday, November 9 — Ruth Fields: Contemporary Art at Harvard
Tuesday, November 10 — Elizabeth Fraser: Asian Ceramics: 1900 BC to AD 2003
Thursday, November 12 — Elaine Marquis: City Scenes and Country Scenes
Friday, November 13 — Karen McFarlan: Painted and Unpainted Ladies

Monday, November 16 — Bruni Barber: From German Expressionism to Bauhaus
Tuesday, November 17 — Sheila Borges: Latin Ladies: Four Faces from Antiquity
Wednesday, November 18 — Alice DeLana: Louis, Louis, Louis
Thursday, November 19 — Lynn Uhrich-Smith: Scenes of Conflict in the Ancient World
Friday, November 20 — Mary Louis Couvillon: The Figure in Sculptural Form

Monday, November 23 — Carolyn Woollen-Tucker: Monet on the Verge
Tuesday, November 24 — Judith Fleming: Stories on Vases
Wednesday, November 25 — Betty Wolsky: Artists Express Themselves Through Color
Friday, November 27 — Susan Glassman: Water Water Everywhere

Monday November 30 — Marsha Wiseheart: Secrets of the Tomb

For information on gallery talks and events, please visit our calendar.