Join Dr. Emily Hanna, Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas, for a special tour of two current exhibitions: Lost Realms of the Moundbuilders: Ancient Native Americans of the South and Midwest and Voices So True: New Native American Art from the Clyde Oyster Bequest. Highlights Tour groups meet in the Main […]
Behind every work of art is the history of those who owned the piece before it came into the Museum's collection. Join R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Graham Boettcher, as he shares some of the more unusual and memorable stories of how works arrived at the BMA. Each Highlights Tour […]
Many of the BMA's visitors know Albert Bierstadt's monumental landscape painting, Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California. But did you know that the Museum's collection is rich in landscape paintings from the mid-nineteenth century, and increasingly rich in those created by women artists? Join Katelyn D. Crawford, the William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, to explore […]
Join Dr. Robert Schindler, The Fariss Gambrill Lynn and Henry Sharpe Lynn Curator of European Art at the BMA, for a special tour of the European collection titled Superheroes of the BMA! Each Highlights Tour offers an intimate look at specific areas of the BMA collection with a BMA curator or educator. Join us to […]
Join Director of Learning and Engagement Dr. Rachel White for this tour, Legacies of the Moundbuilders: Learning from our Community Collaborators in current exhibition. Lost Realms of the Moundbuilders. Each Highlights Tour offers an intimate look at specific areas of the BMA collection with a BMA curator or educator. Join us to learn something new […]
Join Dr. Anne Forschler, The Marguerite Jones Harbert and John M. Harbert III Curator of Decorative Arts, for a closer look at the largest collection of Wedgwood in the country in her tour, Wedgwood: A Living Tradition. Each Highlights Tour offers an intimate look at specific areas of the BMA collection with a BMA curator […]
Join Associate Director of Learning and Engagement, Angela May for this Highlights Tour, Game Changing Moments in Art, which includes popular works from the BMA collection such as Le Matin temps brumeux, Pourville by Claude Monet. Each Highlights Tour offers an intimate look at specific areas of the BMA collection with a BMA curator or educator. […]
Join Dr. Anne Forschler, The Marguerite Jones Harbert and John M. Harbert III Curator of Decorative Arts, as she shares more about one of her areas of expertise, Decorative Cast Iron from Central Europe. Formed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Germany by Gustav Lamprecht (1862-1946) and Maurice Garbáty (1892-1965), and housed […]
Join Dr. Robert Schindler The Fariss Gambrill Lynn and Henry Sharpe Lynn Curator of European Art for an exploration of some curious aspects in the European collection with his tour, Kids, Dogs, Guitars - French Paintings from the 1700s. Each Highlights Tour offers an intimate look at specific areas of the BMA collection with a […]
Join Dr. Katelyn D. Crawford, The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, for a tour of the recent installation Climbing Mountains. Unexpected and nearly invisible histories sometimes unite objects in the Birmingham Museum of Art’s collections. For two American artists, painting and mountain climbing were connected pursuits. Georgia Engelhard and Elaine Hamilton cultivated careers […]
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The Birmingham Museum of Art will be closed April 30 – May 6 in preparation for its annual fundraiser, the Museum Ball. Normal operating hours will resume Tuesday, May 7.
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