Guided Tour

American Art

This tour introduces visitors to the rich tradition of American art, from its mid-seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the early twentieth-century panoply of subjects and styles. This outstanding collection of portraits, landscapes, and narrative scenes is presented in The American Wing's newly renovated galleries. Selections include paintings and sculpture by such major artists as John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Frederic Remington.

Free with Museum admission

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  • Guided Tour

    American Art

    Tuesday, May 21, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

    Free with Museum admission

  • Guided Tour

    American Art

    Wednesday, May 22, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

    Free with Museum admission

  • Guided Tour

    American Art

    Thursday, May 23, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

    Free with Museum admission

  • Guided Tour

    American Art

    Friday, May 24, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

    Free with Museum admission

  • Guided Tour

    American Art

    Tuesday, May 28, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

    Free with Museum admission

  • Guided Tour

    American Art

    Wednesday, May 29, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

    Free with Museum admission

  • Guided Tour

    American Art

    Thursday, May 30, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

    Free with Museum admission

  • Guided Tour

    American Art

    Friday, May 31, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

    Free with Museum admission

  • Guided Tour

    American Art

    Tuesday, June 4, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

    Free with Museum admission

  • Guided Tour

    American Art

    Wednesday, June 5, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

    Free with Museum admission

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Friday Evening Gallery Events

Bring your friends and chart your own course through the galleries as you participate in activities that connect you with works of art.

William Hogarth  (British, 1697–1764) | Scholars at a Lecture (detail), January 1736 | 91.1.35

The Museum offers lectures and panels in conjunction with special exhibitions, the permanent collection, and other related topics.

Garden Tour at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens

Enjoy collection highlight tours, garden tours, gallery talks, and other programs at The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in northern Manhattan devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.