What’s On
Highlights Tour
This one-hour tour is perfect for first-time visitors. Explore highlights of the collection and learn the history of the Barnes.
Private Collection Tours
Explore highlights of the collection and learn the history of the Barnes. This tour is a private one-hour experience for you and up to seven guests.
July Spotlight Tour: When Art Is Magic
This enchanted journey through the collection highlights our most spellbinding works.
August Spotlight Tour: When Art Is Magic
This enchanted journey through the collection highlights our most spellbinding works.
September Spotlight Tour: Matisse, Dr. Barnes, and The Dance
Tour our collection of paintings by Henri Matisse and learn how a visit to the Barnes collection was a pivotal moment in the artist's career.
Conversation: The Barnes Then and Now—Reflections on the Installation
Featuring art historians Dario Gamboni and Martha Lucy, and moderated by Monique Scott, this candid discussion explores Dr. Barnes’s famously quirky ensembles.
Reading: Dario Gamboni on “Learning to See”
The art historian reads from his 2019 book The Museum as Experience, which focuses on the Barnes Foundation as a collector's museum.
Conversation: The Barnes Then and Now—On Our Relationship with Lincoln University
Lincoln University president Brenda Allen and Barnes director Thom Collins explore the institutions' complicated history and promising future. Moderated by Roxanne Patel Shepalavy.
Conversation: The Barnes Then and Now—Close Looking at the Education Program
Rika Burnham and William Perthes discuss the “objective method” of looking at art developed by Albert Barnes in the 1920s and what we can learn from it now. Moderated by Monique Scott.
Conversation: The Barnes Then and Now—Reflections on Art and Social Justice
Jane Golden and Val Gay explore the egalitarian beliefs underpinning Albert Barnes’s creation of the Foundation in 1922. Moderated by Roxanne Patel Shepalavy.
October Spotlight Tour: Matisse, Dr. Barnes, and The Dance
Tour our collection of paintings by Henri Matisse and learn how a visit to the Barnes collection was a pivotal moment in the artist's career.