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Calendar of Events
Programs take place in the museum unless otherwise specified. Click here for public tour registration.
Highlights Tours | Thursdays–Sundays, 12:30 & 2pm
Family Tour: Eyes on Art | Every Second Saturday, 12:15pm
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At TheaterWorks | The Rembrandt
8:00 pm
At TheaterWorks | The Rembrandt
Apr 21 @ 8:00 pm – May 14 @ 8:00 pm
 When a museum guard decides to touch a famous Rembrandt painting, a remarkable journey across the ages ensues. Spanning centuries of human experience, The Rembrandt is a visually stunning, theatrical tour-de-force that movingly explores the[...]
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Day Art Tour: The Morgan Library & Museum
Day Art Tour: The Morgan Library & Museum
May 2 all-day
 Day trip with us for a guided tour of the Morgan. Experience the wide-ranging collections including Egyptian art, Renaissance paintings, Chinese porcelain, and the largest collection of Rembrandt etchings in the United States. To learn[...]
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 4 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
 A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 4 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 5 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 5 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 6 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Film: Children of the Mist (2021)
2:00 pm
Film: Children of the Mist (2021)
May 6 @ 2:00 pm
 In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded northwest Vietnamese mountains, an indigenous Hmong community is home to twelve-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education. A free spirit,[...]
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 6 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 7 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 7 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Sunday Serenades: Inspired Locales
2:00 pm
Sunday Serenades: Inspired Locales
May 7 @ 2:00 pm
 1pm gallery talk with Philippe Halbert 2pm concert Members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra present an afternoon of chamber music inspired by cities around the world. Kenji Bunch’s dynamic 26.2 is based on the first[...]
Film: Children of the Mist (2021)
4:00 pm
Film: Children of the Mist (2021)
May 7 @ 4:00 pm
In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded northwest Vietnamese mountains, an indigenous Hmong community is home to twelve-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education. A free spirit,[...]
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Artful Conversations for Members with Merik Goma
12:00 pm
Artful Conversations for Members with Merik Goma
May 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 Hear from Merik Goma, the Joyce C. Willis Artist in Residence at The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, as he discusses his latest photographic series My Heart is Light in the Void, now on[...]
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 11 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 11 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 12 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Curator Talk: Taxile Doat’s French Porcelain with Linda Roth
1:00 pm
Curator Talk: Taxile Doat’s French Porcelain with Linda Roth
May 12 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
 Taxile Maximin Doat (1851–1938) was one of the most important French ceramicists working at the turn of the twentieth century. Doat’s works are celebrated for his experimental glazes and technical achievements with pâte-sur-pâte (paste on[...]
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 12 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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SOLD OUT | Chasing Rembrandt Brunch
10:00 am
SOLD OUT | Chasing Rembrandt Brunch
May 13 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
 This program is sold out. Click here for more ways to engage with Chasing Rembrandt. Rembrandt and the Dutch painters of the seventeenth century are celebrated for their use of rich color and dramatic light.[...]
Second Saturdays for Families: Woven Together
12:00 pm
Second Saturdays for Families: Woven Together
May 13 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
 Tour the exhibition Alexander Calder: Collaborative Creations with a docent and learn how artists’ combined efforts produce unique textiles. Be sure to lend your finishing touch to our community rug. Design a card using a[...]
Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 13 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 13 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 14 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Hartford Youth Art Renaissance Closing Reception
4:30 pm
Hartford Youth Art Renaissance Closing Reception
May 17 @ 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm
 Gather with families and supporters of the student artists represented in the 50th Annual Hartford Youth Art Renaissance. Spend time in the galleries, listen to live music, hear from special guests, and celebrate the students[...]
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Member Shopping Days
Member Shopping Days
May 18 all-day
 Museum members double their savings (20 percent off) during opening weekend of I Am Seen… Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass.
Member Preview Morning | I Am Seen…
11:00 am
Member Preview Morning | I Am Seen…
May 18 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
 See the exhibition I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass before it opens to the public. Keep an eye on your email for an invitation to register for a tour with Wadsworth[...]
Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 18 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 18 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Member Shopping Days
Member Shopping Days
May 19 all-day
Museum members double their savings (20 percent off) during opening weekend of I Am Seen… Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass.
Member Preview Morning | I Am Seen…
11:00 am
Member Preview Morning | I Am Seen…
May 19 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
See the exhibition I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass before it opens to the public. Keep an eye on your email for an invitation to register for a tour with Wadsworth[...]
Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 19 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 19 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Artist Conversation | Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Prof. Sarah Lewis, and Sir Isaac Julien
5:00 pm
Artist Conversation | Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Prof. Sarah Lewis, and Sir Isaac Julien
May 19 @ 5:00 pm
 SOLD OUT | The conversation will be available virtually via Zoom. Click here to register for the live stream. 5pm exhibition viewing & reception 6pm conversation The contributions of noted abolitionist, author, and statesman Frederick Douglass[...]
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Member Shopping Days
Member Shopping Days
May 20 all-day
Museum members double their savings (20 percent off) during opening weekend of I Am Seen… Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass.
Member Preview Morning | I Am Seen…
11:00 am
Member Preview Morning | I Am Seen…
May 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
See the exhibition I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass before it opens to the public. Keep an eye on your email for an invitation to register for a tour with Wadsworth[...]
Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 20 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 20 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Roaring 20s 2.0
6:00 pm
Roaring 20s 2.0
May 20 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
 The Costume & Textile Society of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art hosts an exuberant fundraising party and auction to support the Costume & Textile collection. For information, contact Sharmin Mahmud Price at sharmin.price@thewadsworth.org.
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Member Shopping Days
Member Shopping Days
May 21 all-day
Museum members double their savings (20 percent off) during opening weekend of I Am Seen… Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass.
Member Preview Morning | I Am Seen…
11:00 am
Member Preview Morning | I Am Seen…
May 21 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
See the exhibition I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass before it opens to the public. Keep an eye on your email for an invitation to register for a tour with Wadsworth[...]
Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 21 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Book Talk: “The Story of Art without Men” with Katy Hessel
2:00 pm
Book Talk: “The Story of Art without Men” with Katy Hessel
May 21 @ 2:00 pm
 Katy Hessel is an art historian, broadcaster, curator, and the author of The Story of Art without Men (W. W. Norton & Company, 2023), a Sunday Times Bestseller and winner of Waterstones Book of the Year[...]
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 21 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Day Art Tour: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Day Art Tour: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 23 all-day
 Day trip to see Van Gogh’s Cypresses in its opening week. The exhibition focuses on the artist’s fascination with the flame-shaped evergreens found in Arles in the South of France. Iconic works The Starry Night[...]
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 25 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 25 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 26 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Music in the Galleries: Chia-Yu Joy Lu and Flora Gu
1:30 pm
Music in the Galleries: Chia-Yu Joy Lu and Flora Gu
May 26 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
 Drop in for an informal performance by Chia-Yu Joy Lu, director of the Chinese music ensembles at Wesleyan University and Smith College, and Flora Gu, Wesleyan University student musician, featuring the erhu (Chinese two-string fiddle)[...]
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 26 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 27 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 27 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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Highlights Tour
12:30 pm
Highlights Tour
May 28 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
Highlights Tour
2:00 pm
Highlights Tour
May 28 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A docent guided tour of collection highlights. Availability is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is recommended. A face mask/covering is encouraged. Same-day admission is included in the price of your tour ticket.
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