These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each student guide and provide visitors a unique, thematic view into collections.

Tours are limited to 18 people, and it is required that you reserve your place. At 10am the day of the event, reservations will open and may be arranged online through this form. The Student Guide Tour reservation will also serve as your...

Join curator Lynette Roth and conservator Penley Knipe for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view through July 31, 2022.

Anneliese Hager (1904–1997) made significant contributions to the medium of camera-less photography and to the wider surrealist movement in Europe. The camera-less photograph, or photogram, is an image made by placing objects directly on (or in close proximity to)...

Join curator Lynette Roth and artist T. Deutch for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view through July 31, 2022.

German artist Anneliese Hager (1904–1997) made significant contributions to the medium of camera-less photography and to the wider surrealist movement in Europe. The camera-less photograph, or photogram, is an image made by placing objects directly on (or in close...

Paul Tamburro ’21 will explore distinctions between art and everyday objects and the relationship between art and mass production. 

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: “The Art of the Everyday,” with Paul Tamburro

Mei Tercek ’21 will consider how decay can be a destructive and revitalizing force in art, focusing on several works from the collections.  

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: “Decay and Regeneration,” with Mei Tercek 

Gavin Moulton ’20 will explore the theme of architecture as art in a discussion focused on several works in the collections spanning a thousand years of art history.  

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: “Architecture as Art,” with Gavin Moulton

Emilė Radytė, May Wan, Gavin Moulton, and Tommy Mahon, our Ho Family Student Guides from the Harvard Class of 2020, will share their favorite artworks from the Harvard Art Museums collections in this special, celebratory tour. 

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: Celebrating the Class of 2020

Join student guide May Wang on this special hour-long tour to rediscover the artistic, material, and musical influences behind Taddeo di Bartolo’s Virgin and Child with Angels. Following an investigation of the painting’s iconography, May and her colleagues from the Harvard University Choir will bring the painting to life by performing the hymn featured within it.

Free with museum admission. This tour is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the tour, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

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To celebrate Independence Day (July 4), fellows Gabriella Szalay, Jen Thum, and Julie Wertz will highlight works featuring red, white, and blue.

Note that this is a special, one-hour talk.

Free with museums admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before each talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

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Join curator John Overholt for a guided tour of the exhibition to learn about the ways early modern science inspired and made possible the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.

Learn more about Exhibition Tour: Small Steps, Giant Leaps.

Join curator John Overholt for a guided tour of the exhibition to learn about the ways early modern science inspired and made possible the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.

Learn more about Exhibition Tour: Small Steps, Giant Leaps.

Let a Harvard student help you focus on one special object in the galleries. Each Quick Stop lasts about 15 minutes and offers replica objects to... Read more about Quick Stops