The Montana Museum of Art and Culture holds a variety of daily tours, led by our team of community docents, and by artists from the greater Montana area. These tours are free and open to the public.

If you would like to schedule a personalized or private tour, please contact our operations manager Peggy Nesbitt at peggy.nesbitt@mso.umt.edu.

Please see below for our daily tour schedule, as well as a list of upcoming special topic tours. 

Tour Times:
Daily Docent Tours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Special Topic Docent Tours: Fridays, 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
In the Know Gallery Talks: Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Upcoming Special Topic Tours: 
Fridays, 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

For their special topics tours, our cohort of docents throughly research and craft engaging investigations of particular works, themes, mediums, or periods of art history. 

April 5th: Dir. Rafael Chacón, “Running Threads: Textiles at the MMAC”
Director Chacón will speak about the importance of textile arts in the Permanent Collection.

April 12th: Rosella Mosteller, “Selective Focus: Two Creative Geniuses”
Mosteller will describe the fertile interactions between photographer Barbara Morgan and dance choreographer Martha Graham.

April 19th: Mary Engstrom, “Art as Storytelling”
Engstrom will present a conversation on five works as examples of narrative storytelling, and how these works "speak" to the audience on a personal level. 

April 26th: Dolly Browder, “Following the Lead: Young Montana Women Artists”
Browder will discuss a generation of young female artists based in Montana, and their values, concerns, and methods.

May 3rd: Lenore Maynard, "Peggy's Boys: The Inordinate Influence of Peggy Guggenheim on Modern Art"
Maynard will discuss the importance of American art collector Peggy Guggenheim and her influence on the course of American modernism. 

May 10th: Dolly Browder, “Following the Lead: Young Montana Women Artists”
Browder will discuss a generation of young female artists based in Montana, and their values, concerns, and methods.

May 17th: Cay Drew, “Listening to Art: A Sense of Sound”
Drew will encourage a conversation about the sense of sound as expressed and evoked in works of visual art.

May 24th: Debra Pollard and Greg Timmons, “Portraits"
Pollard and Timmons will highlight a series of portraits from the Permanent Collection and provide insight into the subjects' cultures, histories, beliefs, as well as our shared humanity.

May 31st: Tom Bensen, "Birds of a Feather: Local Artists Alongside the Masters."
Bensen will present a discussion that pairs beloved local artists and well-known masters in the Permanent Collection. 

Upcoming In the Know Gallery Talks:
Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Our In the Know gallery talks feature visiting artists from the Montana community discussing their own works of art that are currently on display in our galleries. 

April 10th: Jason Clark, Portraits
Clark will speak about archetypes and cliches in his images of traditional and contemporary Native American subjects. 

April 17th: Beth Lo, The Eight Immortals
Lo will address her modern interpretation of the Eight Immortals from Chinese mythology.

April 24th: Dirk Lee, Green Bedspread
Le will speak to his early work in prints analyzing the human figure. 

May 1st: Dana Boussard, Horsefeathers
Boussard will explain her powerful textile and the story behind its whimsical and dualistic imagery.

May 8th: Bev Glueckert, Tumbuna with Feathers
Glueckert will describe the concepts of memory, death, and loss in her work.

May 15th: Dagny Walton, I am Joyful in Ruin 2
Walton will discuss her interest in pulp imagery and its archetypal depictions of the American West.

May 22nd: Jennifer Murphy, Undaunted
Murphy will describe the lead image in her series of photographs about missing Indigenous people.

May 29th: Jim Todd, Scott Joplin
Todd will speak about the centrality of music, particularly American jazz and blues, in his art.