Join Museum curators, conservators, educators, independent scholars, artists, and graduate students for weekly gallery talks. Learn about art, culture, and history in the MFA collection.  Talks focus on special exhibitions and the permanent collection.  Select gallery talks offer a "behind-the-scenes" look at the work of conservators, exhibition designers and other staff at the MFA.  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: The Picturesque and the Sublime: New England Style

December 1, 2012

Gallery Talk: Beyond Zeus and Jupiter: Superstition and Magic

December 2, 2012

Gallery Talk: Medieval Grace: Light in the Dark Ages

December 5, 2012

The Hardanger Fiddle of Norway

December 5, 2012

Gallery Talk: Arts of Korea

December 6, 2012

Gallery Talk: The Art of Death in the Ancient World

December 9, 2012

The Modern Mandolin

December 10, 2012

Keyboard Duets of the Eighteenth Century

December 12, 2012

Gallery Talk: Past/Present: The Imagined Landscape: From Medieval Panel to Nineteenth-Century Canvas

December 12, 2012

Gallery Talk: Daniel Rich: Platforms of Power

December 13, 2012

Gallery Talk: Medieval Grace: Light in the Dark Ages

December 15, 2012

Gallery Talk: Monks, Madonnas and Medieval Marvels

December 16, 2012

Gallery Talk: Beyond Zeus and Jupiter: Superstition and Magic

December 19, 2012

Gallery Talk: The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection

December 20, 2012

Gallery Talk: Celebrating the Solstice

December 22, 2012

Gallery Talk: The Art of Death in the Ancient World

December 29, 2012

Gallery Talk: Behind the Scenes: Exhibition Design and Ori Gersht: History Repeating

January 3, 2013

Gallery Talk: Drawings for a King

January 5, 2013

Highlights of the Musical Instrument Collection

January 7, 2013

Gallery Talk: Splendor at the Royal Court 1500-1789

January 9, 2013

Gallery Talk: Royalty on Paper

January 10, 2013

Gallery Talk: As Good as Gold: Chinese Lacquer, 1200-1800

January 12, 2013

Gallery Talk: Creation/Destruction

January 13, 2013

Gallery Talk: Beautiful Words: Writing Calligraphy, and Art in Asia

January 16, 2013

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

January 17, 2013

Gallery Talk: Creation/Destruction

January 19, 2013

Gallery Talk: The Changing Face of Rome

January 20, 2013

Gallery Talk: Arts of Korea

January 24, 2013

Gallery Talk: Beautiful Words: Writing Calligraphy, and Art in Asia

January 26, 2013

Gallery Talk: Splendor at the Royal Court 1500-1789

January 27, 2013

Gallery Talk: Art in the Street: European Posters

January 30, 2013

Gallery Talk: What's New in the Arts of Korea Gallery

January 31, 2013

Gallery Talk: The Body Oceanic: Men & Women in Pacific Art

February 2, 2013

Gallery Talk: Mummies!

February 3, 2013

The Middle Eastern 'Ud

February 4, 2013

The Pipa: Lute of China

February 6, 2013

Gallery Talk: Behind the Scenes: The History and Installation of the Hanoverian Silver Display in the Koch Gallery

February 6, 2013

Gallery Talk: Lois Mailou Jones

February 7, 2013

Gallery Talk: More Than Meets the Eye

February 9, 2013

Gallery Talk: Valentine/Lupercalia Poetry Reading and Gallery Talk

February 10, 2013

Gallery Talk: The Body Oceanic: Men & Women in Pacific Art

February 13, 2013

Gallery Talk: Mummies!

February 16, 2013

Gallery Talk: More Than Meets the Eye

February 17, 2013

Gallery Talk: Last Things: Objects of Death, Dying, and Salvation from the Middle Ages

February 20, 2013

Gallery Talk: Lords of Life: Coffins and Sarcophagi in Ancient Egypt

February 21, 2013

Gallery Talk: Why Do We Love Postcards?

February 24, 2013

Gallery Talk: Luxurious Lacquer: Chinese Lacquer and It’s Influence, 1200-1800

February 27, 2013

Gallery Talk: Renaissance Prints

February 28, 2013

Jew's Harps of the World

March 4, 2013

The Qin: Zither of China

April 3, 2013