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Daily HIGHlights Tours,

Photo of a docent speaking to seated visitors in front of a Thornton Dial artwork.
Daily

All tours are free with Museum admission, and no reservations are required.

Weekend Family Tours,

children watch as a tour guide explains art with a hand puppet
Every Saturday and Sunday

Explore the High as a family on this interactive, docent-guided adventure in the galleries.

May First Friday,

Two friends enjoy wine together.
May 3, 2019

On the first Friday of every month, you can count on the High for drop-in art making, live performances, and drinks for purchase from 6 to 9 p.m. Part art party, part happy hour—and did we mention all programming is free with Museum admission?

SOLD OUT Curator-Led Member Tour of European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection,

Painting titled Autumn II by Wassily Kandinsky.
May 13, 2019

With a stunning array of works from Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Rodin, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Matisse, and Picasso, there is so much to see in European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection. On May 13, take a closer look at the exhibition on this exclusive guided tour led by Claudia Einecke, the High’s Frances B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art.

Objects of Enchantment: Why Still-Life Painting Is Modern (According to Duncan Phillips),

Still life painting by Braque.
May 16, 2019

Join Michael Marrinan of Stanford University as he unfurls the evolution of Duncan Phillips’s views on art. Initially ferociously anti-modernist, Phillips eventually established the first museum of modern art in the United States.