Visit the world-class museums and galleries of New Haven with free talks and exhibition tours, hosted by expert curators and guides. More Exhibition Talks & Tours will be posted below over the next several weeks. Please check back!
Two great archives are neighbors in New Haven: Grove Street Cemetery, the nation’s first chartered burial ground, and Beinecke Library, North America’s largest building dedicated exclusively to rare books and and manuscripts. Both exist to make the past accessible in the present for the future, and both offer many encyclopedias of stories to explore and inspire.
Join us for a tour of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art at the John Slade Ely Galleries at 51 Trumbull Street in New Haven. Tour the English Elizabethan style house built in 1905 by S.G. Taylor. It was home to John Slade Ely (1860–1906) and Grace T. Ely, who came to New Haven in 1897. From 1897 up until his tragic death in 1906, he held the Theory and Practice of Medicine chair at Yale School of...
Filmmaker Jeremy Ambers is the creator of Impossible Light, a feature-length film about the installation of Leo Villareal’s stunning digital light sculpture The Bay Lights, which was installed in 2013 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the construction of the Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland.
This exhibition celebrates the range and depth of the work produced by women artists of the New Haven Paint & Clay Club, one of the oldest exhibiting art associations in Connecticut and the Northeast. Guest curator Tanya Pohrt discusses the club's founding and gender inclusivity, connecting to broader issues in history and women's rights.
Jazz Haven presents an experience in the rhythmic world of “spoken word artists,” floating over the sounds of a live jazz trio, reflecting the culture of Jazz in America. Jesse Hameen II - drums, Jeff Fuller - bass, and Darren Litzie - keyboards, will be performing at the New Haven Museum on Friday, June 14 at 5:30 pm along with Spoken Word artists.
Come visit the intereactive exhibit created by the students of Yale School of Architecture regarding New Haven Industrial Heritage Trails “Ghost Town.” Here you will have the opportunity to respond to their proposals.
Creative Arts Workshop's Exhibition Tour/Talk offers an in-depth look at Freed Formats: The Book Reconsidered, a traveling book arts exhibition featuring 135 works by 53 artists from 17 states and 2 countries. The tour/talk will be hosted by exhibition curators Chris Perry and Alice Walsh who will be joined by exhibiting artists Sheila Hale, Miriam Schaer, and Beatrice Coron. Together, this group...
Take part in a highly personal and evocative tour of the critically acclaimed exhibition “Winfred Rembert: Amazing Grace,” with the artist himself, the day before the show closes at the New Haven Museum.
New Haven Museum Guest Curator Laura A. Macaluso will lead a tour that includes the exhibit "Deane Keller: New Haven's Portrait Painter, Muralist and Monuments Man", as well as several works on display in downtown New Haven.
Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace brings the origin and incredible history of the samurai to life.
FREE reservations begin June 12.
Join two of the exhibition curators, Paola D’Agostino, the Nina and Lee Griggs Assistant Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Izabel Gass, Graduate Research Assistant, Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art, for a tour of this major exhibition of Romantic art.
Learn about the life and artistic development of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, one of the most celebrated artists of the 19th century, by looking closely with exhibition curator Heather Nolin at his earliest and most innovative sets of etchings, the so-called French, Thames, and Venice Sets.
Join our educators for an interactive tour of the Gallery’s history, architecture, and encyclopedic collection. Focusing on a handful of objects chosen to showcase both the permanent collection and special exhibitions currently on view, no two tours are the same.
