Join Museum curators, conservators, educators, independent scholars, artists, and graduate students for weekly gallery talks. These talks focus on special exhibitions and interesting themes throughout the collections. Select gallery talks are offered Spanish, Russian, French, and American Sign Language. One-hour gallery talks are free with Museum admission and start in the Sharf Visitor Center. Please note: Gallery talks are geared toward an adult audience.

In This Series

Gallery Talk: Topographies of Space: Between Somewhere and Nowhere

May 2, 2012

Gallery Talk: Paper Zoo

May 3, 2012

Gallery Talk: Paintings of Night

May 5, 2012

Gallery Talk: The Back Story: Distance and Close-up and Medieval and Renaissance Painting

May 6, 2012

The Sarasvati Vina of South India

May 7, 2012

Gallery Talk: Identity Politics

May 9, 2012

Gallery Talk: The MFA's New South and Southeast Asian Gallery: An Introduction

May 10, 2012

Gallery Talk: Identity Politics

May 12, 2012

Gallery Talk: Giorgio Vasari as Guide: The First Art Historian

May 13, 2012

CANCELED - Gallery Talk: Behind-the-Scenes: Relocation and Conservation of the Ancient Roman Marble Sculpture of Juno

May 16, 2012

Gallery Talk: Silver, Salt, and Sunlight: Early Photography in Britain and France

May 17, 2012

Gallery Talk: Animals in Art

May 20, 2012

Gallery Talk: The Back Story: Distance and Close-up and Medieval and Renaissance Painting

May 23, 2012

Gallery Talk: The Allure of Japan

May 24, 2012

Gallery Talk: Giorgio Vasari as Guide: The First Art Historian

May 26, 2012

Gallery Talk: Before 1492: Art in the Americas Before the Arrival of Europeans

May 27, 2012

Gallery Talk: American Facebook

May 30, 2012

Gallery Talk: Behind-the-Scenes: Restoring the Allegory of Justice in the Galleries

May 31, 2012

Gallery Talk: Portraits of Friends: John Singleton Copley to Chuck Close

June 2, 2012

Gallery Talk: Intimacy and Distance

June 3, 2012

The Guitar in Italy

June 4, 2012

The Middle Eastern 'Ud

June 6, 2012

Gallery Talk: Behind-the-Scenes: The Conservation of Two Etruscan Sarcophagi in the Galleries

June 7, 2012

Gallery Talk: Complementary Collections: Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and the MFA

June 9, 2012

Gallery Talk: Heroes

June 10, 2012

Gallery Talk: You Want To Do What? Inside Installation Planning

June 13, 2012

Gallery Talk: Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass

June 14, 2012

Gallery Talk: Bodies: The Art of Ancient Statuary

June 16, 2012

Gallery Talk: Manmade Bodies in Sacred Spaces: Medieval Sculpture at the MFA

June 23, 2012

Gallery Talk: Paris, Boston, MFA: American Impressionists at Work and Play

June 24, 2012

Gallery Talk: The Allure of Japan

June 27, 2012

Gallery Talk: Portrait of a Young Man: John Singer Sargent as Portrait and Mural Painter

June 28, 2012

Gallery Talk: Beyond the Japanese Garden

July 1, 2012

Highlights of the Musical Instrument Collection

July 2, 2012

Gallery Talk: Paper Zoo: How It's Done

July 7, 2012

Gallery Talk: Paper Zoo: How It's Done

July 11, 2012

Gallery Talk: Preserving History, Making History: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

July 12, 2012

Gallery Talk: Manet: Controversy and Innovation

July 15, 2012

Gallery Talk: A New Installation of European Decorative Arts for Art of Europe

July 18, 2012

Gallery Talk: Manet in Black

July 19, 2012

Gallery Talk: Finding New Paradigms: Leisure and Labor in Post-Civil War America

July 21, 2012

Gallery Talk: Seeking Shambhala

July 22, 2012

Gallery Talk: Ladies of Legend: Depictions of Women in Judeo-Christian Painting Tradition

July 25, 2012

Gallery Talk: Marquetry and Parquetry Decoration on Furniture

July 26, 2012

Gallery Talk: All That Glitters: Medals of the Italian Renaissance

July 28, 2012

The Trumpet Marine

August 1, 2012

Gallery Talk: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Roswell Gleason Period Rooms

August 2, 2012

Gallery Talk: Ladies of Legend: Depictions of Women in Judeo-Christian Painting Tradition

August 4, 2012

Gallery Talk: The Image-Making Process: Exploring the Photography Techniques in "Silver, Salt, and Sunlight"

August 5, 2012

The Kantele: Finland's National Instrument

August 6, 2012

Gallery Talk: Pets in the Floating World

August 8, 2012

Gallery Talk: The Invention of Fantasy: Eighteenth Century Venice

August 9, 2012

Gallery Talk: Manet: Controversy and Innovation

August 11, 2012

Gallery Talk: Truth to Nature: How Real is Realism in the American Nineteenth Century?

August 12, 2012

Gallery Talk: Hatshepsut to Tutankhamen: Rulers of Egypt's Age of Empire in Boston

August 15, 2012

Gallery Talk: Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass

August 16, 2012

Gallery Talk: Heroes and the Holy in Ancient Art

August 18, 2012

Gallery Talk: Ancient Egyptian Gods of the Afterlife

August 22, 2012

Gallery Talk: Shimmering Surfaces: Contemporary Works in the Linde Family Wing

August 23, 2012

Gallery Talk: Summertime at the MFA

August 25, 2012

Gallery Talk: Heroes and the Holy in Ancient Art

August 26, 2012

Gallery Talk: Art of the White Mountains

August 30, 2012

The Pipa: Lute of China

September 10, 2012

Highlights of the Musical Instrument Collection

October 3, 2012

The Hardanger Fiddle of Norway

December 5, 2012