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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 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 Gallery Tours:


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


May - 19, 23, 26 at noon
June - 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13, 15 at noon; 9, 16 at 1pm

 


This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs


May - 31 at noon; 19, 26 at 2pm
June - 1 at noon; 2 at 1pm

 


Myth and Materiality: Latin American Art from the Permanent Collection, 1930-1990


May - 16, 24, 25 at noon; 19, 26 at 1pm

 

Special Focus Gallery Tours:

 


Asian Collection


May - 22, 30 at noon
June - 5, 9, 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


May - 18, 18, 28 at noon
June - 7, 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

 


Scenery, Story, Spirit: American Painting and Sculpture from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art


May - 15, 17, 21 at noon

 

 

 
     
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