Private Tours for Groups of 10 or More
Engage with centuries of human creativity and history at the Walters Art Museum through private group tours, which create opportunities for exploration, discussion, and creative expression in the galleries with friends, family, colleagues, and beyond. Groups of 10 or more planning a visit can request an interactive private group tour or a self-guided visit during public hours.
Private Group Tours
Private group tours are one-hour-long, staff-led experiences that blend conversational guided looking with creative exploration that is accessible for different abilities and learning styles. Groups must have a minimum of 10 people to book a tour. Customize your experience by choosing one tour theme and one activity your group will enjoy from the options below.
Tour Themes
- Welcome to the Walters: Get acquainted with the history of the museum’s collection and explore how newly acquired contemporary works expand the stories and voices in our galleries.
- Love Is in the Art: Friends, romantic partners, caregivers—this experience celebrates love of all kinds! Relish in artworks that embody the different ways love can make us feel.
- Art with Flavor: Nothing brings people together like sharing a meal. Explore how visual and culinary arts intersect, often with mouthwatering results.
- The Stylish Self: Few creative expressions are more personal than how we dress. Take a gender-expansive, cross-cultural look at how people throughout history have dressed and accessorized.
Activities
- Art Making: Take inspiration from your tour and make a work of art to express yourself. Depending on your tour theme, you can make a card, a vision board, a self-portrait, or another themed artwork.
- Extended Gallery Conversation: Keep the conversation going! Your staff tour guide will facilitate a themed discussion about the works you viewed on your tour in either the Cafe, Lower Level Lobby, or a gallery space.
- Supported Self-Exploration: Your staff tour guide will help your group select Build Your Own Tour Cards based on the group’s interest and connection to your tour themes, supporting further explorations throughout the museum.
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Tour Theme: Welcome to the Walters
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Tour Theme: Love Is in the Art
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Tour Theme: Art with Flavor
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Tour Theme: The Stylish Self
Group Self-Guided Visits
Enjoy the galleries, including our current special exhibitions, at your own pace. If your group includes 10 or more people, please fill out the form below so we are best prepared to welcome you. During your visit, resources such as sketching materials, Build Your Own Tour cards, gallery books, and interactive opportunities are available in select galleries. Please ask Walters staff and volunteers for help or recommendations.
Cost
Tours at the Walters are free thanks to the generosity of our visitors. Please consider a donation of $12 per person for your tour group.
Accessibility
Accessibility resources and accommodations are available for tours by emailing [email protected]. Please note, we ask for two weeks advance notice for ASL interpretation requests and three weeks advance notice for Spanish language interpretation requests.
Prepare for your visit by reviewing our Visitor Guidelines and familiarizing yourself with the Visitor Promise.
Request a Group Tour
Registration is required for private group tours and requested for group self-guided visits. Please complete this form and a staff member will follow up within three business days to help plan your experience. Questions about touring at the Walters? Please contact [email protected].