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 Body Oceanic: Men & Women in Pacific Art

February 2, 2013

Gallery Talk: Mummies!

February 3, 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 Its Influence, 1200-1800

February 27, 2013

Gallery Talk: Renaissance Prints

February 28, 2013

Gallery Talk: Antiquity in the 19th Century

March 3, 2013

Jew's Harps of the World

March 4, 2013

Gallery Talk: Lions, Tigers and Dragons: The Animal Kingdom in Asian Art

March 6, 2013

Gallery Talk: Behind the Scenes: Hiding in Plain Sight: Highlights of the Frame Collection

March 7, 2013

Gallery Talk: Art in the Street: European Posters

March 9, 2013

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

March 13, 2013

Gallery Talk: New Blue and White

March 14, 2013

Gallery Talk: Painting the Senses

March 16, 2013

Gallery Talk: Dining in the Time of Roswell Gleason

March 17, 2013

Gallery Talk: Landscape and the Nude: Cezanne's "The Large Bathers" in Context

March 20, 2013

Gallery Talk: Lions, Tigers and Dragons: The Animal Kingdom in Asian Art

March 23, 2013

Gallery Talk: Painting the Senses

March 24, 2013

Gallery Talk: Students Curate Students: Liking Is For Cowards, Go For What Hurts

March 27, 2013

Why Are Surimono Prints So Special? The Woodblock Printer's Art Revealed

March 28, 2013

Gallery Talk: Antiquity in the 19th Century

March 30, 2013

The Cornet in the Nineteenth Century

April 1, 2013

The Qin: Zither of China

April 3, 2013

Gallery Talk: Seeking Adonis: The Male Nude in Western Art

April 3, 2013

Gallery Talk: New Blue and White

April 4, 2013

Gallery Talk: The Postcard Age

April 6, 2013

Gallery Talk: Holy Bodies: From Relic to Representation

April 7, 2013

Gallery Talk: Holy Bodies: From Relic to Representation

April 10, 2013

Gallery Talk: Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street

April 11, 2013

Gallery Talk: Seeking Adonis: The Male Nude in Western Art

April 13, 2013

Gallery Talk: Ancient Beauty

April 14, 2013

Gallery Talk: Behind the Scenes: Conservation and Interpretation of Honthorst's Winter Queen

April 17, 2013

Why Are Surimono Prints So Special? The Woodblock Printer's Art Revealed

April 18, 2013

Gallery Talk: Highlights of the New Arts of Japan Gallery

April 20, 2013

Gallery Talk: Italian Art in the Age of Michelangelo

April 21, 2013

Gallery Talk: Ancient Beauty

April 24, 2013

Gallery Talk: Behind the Scenes: Conservation and Interpretation of Honthorst's Winter Queen

April 25, 2013

The Sheng: Mouth Organ of China

May 6, 2013

The Cláirseach Harp of Ireland

June 3, 2013

The Hurdy Gurdy

June 5, 2013

Highlights of American Musical Instruments

July 1, 2013

The Rudra Vina of North India

August 5, 2013

The Sarasvatī Vīnā of South India

August 7, 2013