The Birmingham Museum of Art is pleased to present an after-hours experience on the first Thursday of each month. Wander the galleries, sip cocktails in the garden, catch a movie, or sit down with friends for tapas at Oscar's. The Museum is open for your enjoyment until 9PM

General Admission is FREE to enjoy the First Thursdays: After Hours at the Museum. *

*If you wish to enjoy tapas or cocktails, see below for charges associated with those items.

We're celebrating SPRING THINGS   at this month's First Thursday. 

5PM - 9PM // OPEN GALLERIES featuring The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection

Every one of our beautiful galleries will be open throughout the evening. With a collection of over 24,000 works of art, we are constantly rotating our growing permanent collection and featuring newly acquired works, ensuring that each visit to the Museum is a fresh experience.

5PM - 9PM // WINE TASTING

Explore Spring-inspired wines with floral and fruitful undertones. Alabama Crown Wines will offer tastings of some great seasonal wines, which you may enjoy in our cafe or under the newly blossomed trees on our outdoor terrace! For a complete list of featured wines, please click here.

5PM - 9PM // TAPAS & COCKTAILS

Enjoy tapas & cocktails with live music in our café or take advantage of the warmer weather by dining al fresco on the new Spencer Terrace. In addition to their tapas menu, Oscar's will offer delicious gourmet pizzas, grilled on a new wood-burning, outdoor pizza oven. 

For just $12, visitors may partake of a full tapas menu including gourmet pizza, assorted charcuterie, flatbreads, vegetables, olives, and spiced meat skewers. A cash bar will be open throughout the evening for guests.

For a full menu, please click here.

5PM - 9PM // SHOPPING AT THE MUSEUM STORE

Enjoy a distinctive, local shopping experience with unique items from the Museum Store! Our eclectic mix features everything from gorgeous jewelry, scarves and artwork by local artists, to beautiful books, stationary, and art related activities for children. Don't forget that Museum members receive an automatic 10% discount. Plus, all sales benefit the Birmingham Museum of Art.


6PM // CURATOR TALK

Lauded in the press by everyone from The New York Times and Salon to Vanity Fair and ELLE, The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection is not a show to be missed. Curator Dr. Graham Boettcher will give a final tour of The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection and discuss the fascinating history of this internationally acclaimed show.

7PM // FILM SCREENING

We have partnered with Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival to offer a superior selection of films to accompany each First Thursday event. This week, Sidewalk will present The Art of the Steal, a 2009 documentary film about the decades-long efforts to resolve financial problems of the Barnes Foundation, an esoteric collection of mostly Modernist and post-Impressionist artworks, resulting in the officers' decision to break Albert C. Barnes's will and relocate the collection from Lower Merion to Philadelphia. The emphasis of the film is on the breaking of Barnes' will.

Oscar’s at the Museum
Cinco de Mayo First Thursday
May 3, 2012

Seven Layer Taco Dip

Flatbread with Chorizo Sausage, Chiles, Onions, & Poblano Peppers, & Pepper Jack Cheese 

Duck Quesadillas: Wood Roasted Duck with Two Cheeses Wrapped in a Flour Tortilla

A Mélange of South of the Border Favorites:
Our Famous Spinach Queso
Golden Pineapple & Tomatillo Salsa
Black Bean & Corn Relish
Mortal & Pedstal Guacamole
Salsa Fresca
All served with Crisp Tortilla Chips

Grilled Southwestern Style Seasoned Vegetables

Mini Chimichangas

Build Your Own Chicken Fajitas With all of the “fixins”

*Fabulous Margaritas*

Oscar’s Wine Tasting

Codorniu Cava Brut, D.O. Cava       
Codorníu is one of the world’s oldest family enterprises, striving to innovate and sustained by our passion for cava and winemaking. This cava was christened ‘Original’ as it is made from the same blend of grapes used by Josep Raventós, creator of Codorníu Cavas in 1872. Reserve wine adds depth and flavor to this crisp cava.

Parellada, Macabeo and Xarel·lo.
Aveleda Casal Garcia, Vinho Verde   
Soft tropical fruit fill the aroma with peaches and pears on the aftertaste. In the mouth it discloses acid, but has a good pretense. The finish is soft and delicate.

Vinhao, Azal, Borracal
Fillaboa Albarino, D.O. Rias Biaxas    
A fresh wine with powerful apple and pineapple aromas combined with hints of citrus. With subtle memories of yogurt and stone fruit which give the wine its distinctive freshness. Soft on the palate, the wine exhibits a well balanced flavor profile, enhancing its complexity. Well integrated acidity, soft and refined, culminating in a lingering.
100% Albarino

Artazuri Garnacha, D.O. Navarra       
A consumer-friendly wine that boasts heady aromas, succulent fruit and a good natural acidity, the Artazuri Garnacha is an ideal everyday wine. Bright cherry-red in color, it has aromas of ripe forest berries, lavender and violet. Well-balanced and medium-bodied on the palate, the wine is full of ripe fruit that persists through the finish.
100% Garnacha

Artadi Vinas de Gain, D.O.C. Rioja
A wine that clearly demonstrates the potential, quality and balance of a great Rioja, it is brilliant cherry-red in color and has fresh aromas of red fruit and blackberries, integrated with black licorice and notes of toasted exotic wood. The palate is structured with fine, elegant and persistent tannins that lead to a long and creamy finish.
100% Tempranillo