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Get to Know the Museum
Free Guided Tours
Offered seven days a week (except Monday holidays), our guided tours are free with Museum admission and explore many different collections.
All tours meet at the Sharf Visitor Center and last approximately one hour.
For more information, please call 617-369-3395. If you are interested in scheduling a group tour, please make reservations online through the Groups page.
TOURS IN ENGLISH
Monday through Friday
10:30 am Introduction to Museum Collections
11 am Art of Asia
11:30 am Art of Europe
1:30 pm Art of the Americas
2 pm Art of Egypt and the Classical World
3 pm Introduction to Museum Collections
Tuesday through Friday
Noon Three Masterpieces in Thirty Minutes
Wednesday
6:15 pm Introduction to Museum Collections
Saturday and Sunday
11 am Introduction to Museum Collections
12:30 pm Introduction to Museum Collections
1:30 pm Masterpieces of Painting
3 pm Introduction to Museum Collections |
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Foreign-language Tours
TOURS IN FRENCH
Every Wednesday, 11:15 am Introduction to Museum Collections
Every fourth Wednesday, 6:30 pm Introduction to Museum Collections
Every third Saturday, 2 pm Introduction to Museum Collections
TOURS IN RUSSIAN
Every second and third Wednesday, 6:30 pm Introduction to Museum Collections
TOURS IN SPANISH
Every first Wednesday, 6:30 pm Introduction to Museum Collections
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Audio Guides
If you prefer to explore on your own, create an individualized tour with our audio guide featuring information about more than 150 objects. Available at all ticket desks.
Members $5, nonmembers $6, children $4. |
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A Feeling for Form
FFF is a program that provides access for visitors of all ages who are blind or have low vision. A Feeling for Form is an opportunity for tours of the collections through tactile exploration of selected sculpture and furniture, and through verbal description, tactile diagrams, and objects for artworks that cannot be touched. Trained Museum volunteers and Access staff lead these tours. We are currently expanding program offerings; call for more information. There is no fee for this program, but pre-registration is required. For registration contact Valarie Burrows at 617-369-3302 or Hannah Goodwin at 617-369-3189, or e-mail access@mfa.org. For online registration materials, please use the Feeling for Form Registration Form.
View upcoming Feeling for Form tours. |
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Gallery Talks
Talks are delivered by Museum curators, conservators, independent scholars, artists, and advanced students of art history, and they are based on either special exhibitions or the permanent collection.
Gallery talks are free with Museum admission. They usually last one hour and leave promptly at the scheduled time from the Sharf Visitor Center. If you arrive late, inquire at the Visitor Center and staff will direct you to the talk's location.
Please Note: All gallery talks are geared toward an adult audience. See the Youth and Families Programs page for events for children and teens.
Some of our gallery talks are offered in other languages, including Spanish, Russian, French, and American Sign Language.
View upcoming talks and activities. |
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Explore Boston's Architecture
Learn about the history and artistic traditions that shaped Boston's magnificent buildings, its “made land” and urban renewal through the centuries. Three unique 2-hour tours led by Museum-trained guides include identification and description of important historic landmarks.
Beacon Hill Walking Tour
Step back in time two hundred years to see Beacon Hill through the eyes of the visionary architect, Charles Bulfinch, who influenced the development of this historic part of Boston and established the Federal style of architecture. Members $20; nonmembers $22.
Back Bay Walking Tour
Wide streets and one grand avenue traverse this former marshland. Thirty years of landfill created the ground for Boston’s magnificent Back Bay, a remarkable monument of Victorian architecture, both public and residential. Members $20; nonmembers $22.
Boston Architecture Bus Tour
Witness three centuries of work by the foremost architects of the New World from Charles Bulfinch to H. H. Richardson to I. M Pei. This comfortable cruise through Boston's many neighborhoods and downtown areas includes a 40-minute walk around Beacon Hill if weather permits. Members $20; nonmembers $22.
Reservations required. Note that these tours are not recommended for small children. For more information, call 617-369-3395.
Private group walking tours (minimum 8 people) and Boston architecture bus tours (minimum 35 people) may be arranged by contacting the Tour Coordinator by e-mail or by calling 781-749-9180.
View upcoming architectural tours. |
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