All guided tours are subject to tour guide availability and require at least a three-week notice. All group visits, both guided and self-directed are subject to gallery availability. For more information contact our Adult and College Group Tour Coordinator at groupsales@vmfa.museum.
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A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845
OCTOBER 5, 2024 – JANUARY 26, 2025
Take an epic journey through the American South from 1845 to today. In A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, you will encounter the everyday lives and ordinary places captured in evocative photos that contemplate the region’s central role in shaping American history and identity. This exhibition explores the American South’s distinct, evolving, and contradictory character through an examination of how photographers working in the region have reckoned with the South’s fraught history and posed urgent questions about American identity. Organized chronologically, the exhibition traces the South’s shifting identity in more than two hundred photographs made over more than 175 years.
American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy
OCTOBER 5, 2024 – JANUARY 26, 2025
Marvel at the poetic street scenes, Hollywood portraits, fashion photos, and images of war produced by more than 30 Hungarian-born artists who transformed photography in the 20th-century. American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy follows a remarkable number of émigrés and exiles from Hungary to Berlin and Paris and then on to New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, where they reinvented themselves and American photography. More than 170 stunning, mesmerizing, and surreal photographs capture the unexpected beauty of fleeting shadows, gritty urban life, glamorous celebrities, and the broken promises of America.
Enjoy entry to both exhibitions at your own leisure!
The cost for individual tickets to both exhibitions is $12, but if you have a group of 10 or more, we can offer the group rate of $10 per person. These exhibitions are not timed, and you may reenter with the same ticket as many times as you would like on the date it was purchased. Guided tours will not be offered for this exhibition. For more information contact groupsales@vmfa.museum.
Guided Tour Offerings:
All guided tours are subject to tour, and gallery availability and require at least a three-week notice. The cost for a guided tour is $10 per person for groups of 10 or more. If you have a group of less than 10 people, the cost for a guided tour is $100. VMFA Scavenger hunts are $15 per person, for groups of 9 or more.
Adult Highlights Tour
Maximum group size is 60 adults
Learn about VMFA and its extensive collection of art! Visitors will see art that spans over 6,000 years of history and represents many different cultures.
Mellon: Impressionist Gallery Tour
Maximum group size is 30 adults (Tours of these galleries will not be offered between June 20 and July 28th due to temporary gallery closures).
Join us for a tour of our Mellon French Galleries with a focus on Impressionism. View work from such artists as Monet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. The artists in this gallery experimented with concepts such as color and light, forming the basis for the European Modern Art Movement.
American Galleries
Maximum group size is 30 adults
VMFA holds one of the finest collections of American art in the nation. These galleries include works from such artists as George Inness, John Singer Sargent, and Georgia O’Keefe.
Fabergé
Maximum group size is 15 adults
Explore the famed Faberge galleries. VMFA’s collection includes five Imperial Eggs, making it the largest public collection of Faberge Eggs outside of Russia!
Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection
Maximum group size is 30 adults
Explore one of the most revered private collections in America, now on loan at VMFA! This vast display of art includes rich oil paintings by preeminent 17th and 18th – century European artists such as the Brueghel family, Canaletto, Franz Hals, Peter Paul Rubens and more. This installation invites the viewers to experience the work of art in the manner they would have been displayed in an 18th-century palace.
African American Art
Maximum group size is 60 adults
VMFA holds an amazing collection of art by African American and African Diasporic artists. From enslaved artists such as potter, David Drake, through the innovative styles of Aaron Douglas, to the reimagining of art by Kehinde Wiley, VMFA’s collection spans the history of the U.S.A.
VMFA Scavenger Hunts (Please note, we require a minimum of 9 people to arrange a scavenger hunt):
Superstars of VMFA
Enjoy a mini pop culture trek through the museum to view famous artists and their sometimes even more famous subjects. (For groups of up to 44 people)
The Pursuit of Power
Discovery ways an image is used to denote power and wealth in varying cultures. (For groups of up to 56 people)
Artful Globe Trekking
Look for clues from around the world, while viewing art in VMFA’s permanent collection. (For groups of up to 48 people)
Garden Party
Stroll through a garden of cultures and artists to see how nature has affected art throughout the centuries. (For groups of up to 60 people)
Femmes Fantastiques
Enjoy works of art created by woman artists. (For groups of up to 60 people)
African American Art
View works of art created by African American artists. (For groups of up to 60 people)