Tours
Tours
Together, looking closely at Saunders’s paintings, his own words, and a life of learning we will share an evening of learning and expression that defies reduction and opens our imagination.
Don’t be afraid to bring your young children into the galleries! Museum Educators will introduce children ages 3-10 and their families to works in our galleries through engaging activities and interactive discussion.
Join Carnegie Museum of Natural History scientists, Nicole Heller, Associate Curator, Anthropocene Studies, Mason Heberling, Associate Curator, Botany, and Rachel Reeb, Postdoctoral Associate, Botany in a nature walk to practice reading the landscape like an ecologist, identifying spatial patterns and compositions of plants and animals in the landscape and spotting signs of environmental degradation and repair.
Get a first look at Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: City of Rooms with the artistic team who created the exhibition.
These these conversational, one-hour, docent-led tours are offered daily from April 12 through December 31, 2023.
Think, feel, and connect with the world around you, and let artworks be the spark.
During a special preview just for members, delve into this new exhibition with gallery spotlights tours and mingle with fellow members.
Join a Carnegie Museum of Art docent for an interactive overview tour of Is it morning for you yet?, the 58th Carnegie International orienting you to the layout of the exhibition, the artists and collections.
Join a Carnegie Museum of Art docent for an interactive overview tour of Is it morning for you yet?, the 58th Carnegie International orienting you to the layout of the exhibition, the artists and collections.
Look deeply at photographer Gordon Park’s images of the Penola, Inc. Grease plant and the people who worked there in Pittsburgh’s Strip District in the 1940s in the exhibition Gordon Parks in Pittsburgh, 1944/1946. Discuss Park’s documentation of the plant, its workers, and the range of their activities manufacturing lubricants to support U.S. military efforts during World War II.
Slow down and explore artist Zoe Zenghelis’s constructed worlds of imagination on view in Zoe Zenghelis: Fields, Fragments, Fictions. From seductive metropolitan formations and dystopian landscapes to floating buildings and cityscapes of disturbing stillness, this Art Chat probes what you notice and wonder about the exhibition.
Meet up with a docent and other museum visitors for a Working Thought Art Chat. Discuss how artists raise our awareness to the many ways economic disparity and labor have shaped American life past and present.
Want to know about our exquisite Italian nativity scene, the presepio? Ask an expert! Our Neapolitan presepio is one of the finest of its kind, and has been a Pittsburgh holiday tradition since 1957. Discover more with our docents, free with admission.
Enjoy a lively conversation with a docent about the once-humble genre of still life painting, on view in A Delight for the Senses: The Still Life. Free with admission!
Tour An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018 with an expert docent! Go behind the art, ask questions, and learn about Johns’s prolific career as a printmaker.
Tour An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018 with an expert docent! Go behind the art, ask questions, and learn about Johns’s prolific career as a printmaker.
Enjoy a lively conversation with an expert about the prolific career of one of America’s leading artists in An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018. Free with admission!
Enjoy a lively conversation with an expert about the artworks in A Pittsburgh Anthology, an exhibition highlighting the creative life of Pittsburgh. Free with admission!
Join us for a casual, 90-minute discussion of works in our collection. Designed for visitors who are blind or have low vision and their friends or families, this tour incorporates vibrant visual descriptions, hands-on materials, and new tactile reproductions of favorite artworks.
Join us for a casual, 90-minute discussion of works in our collection. Designed for visitors who are blind or have low vision and their friends or families, this tour incorporates vibrant visual descriptions, hands-on materials, and new tactile reproductions of favorite artworks.
Join us for a lively tour through the collection! Designed for visitors who are blind or have low vision, this tour explores our favorite works through vibrant visual descriptions and hands-on materials that are accessible to the whole family.
Join us for a lively, 90-minute discussion of works in our collection. Designed for visitors who are deaf and their friends or families, this tour is led by an expert docent, assisted by an American Sign Language interpreter.
Join us for a lively, family-friendly tour in our collection! Designed for visitors who are deaf and their friends or families, this tour is led by an expert docent, assisted by an American Sign Language interpreter.
Join us for a casual, 90-minute discussion of works in our collection. Designed for visitors who are blind or have low vision and their friends or families, this tour incorporates vibrant visual descriptions, hands-on materials, and new tactile reproductions of favorite artworks.
Join us for a lively, 90-minute discussion of works in our collection. Designed for visitors who are deaf and their friends or families, this tour is led by an expert docent, assisted by an American Sign Language interpreter.