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Public Tours

Wednesday, June 1, 2016 – Sunday, May 31, 2020

Public tours are currently paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see our Visitor’s Toolkit for information about visiting the museum.

Led by our incredible Museum Guides, public tours at SFMOMA take visitors through the collection and special exhibitions. More of a guided conversation in the galleries than a traditional lecture, our interactive tours are full of surprising stories about artists, and fun facts about the museum and works on view. We encourage all visitors to share their ideas and engage with one another as we explore modern and contemporary art together. You will leave with new ideas about how to look at art and the world around you.

We offer two types of public tours here at SFMOMA. Daily Exhibition Tours are 45 minutes in length and focus on a single exhibition with multiple stops. Spotlight Tours are 20 minutes in length and focus on an individual artwork or artist.

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Spotlight Tour
British Sculptors: The Fisher Collection
Friday, November 4, 2016, 5 p.m.
Visitors in British Sculptors
Spotlight Tour
New Work: Sohei Nishino
Friday, November 4, 2016, 5 p.m.
Museum guide with visitiors in New Work: Sohei Nishino
Daily Tour
Open Ended: SFMOMA’s Permanent Collection
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
A museum guide shows a New Yorker cartoon on an iPad in a gallery
Daily Tour
Bruce Conner: It’s All True
Monday, November 7, 2016, 1:30 p.m.
Three women look at a wall of Bruce Conner's punk photographs
Spotlight Tour
Contemporary Art at SFMOMA
Wednesday, February 1, 2017, 4 p.m.
Four visitors look at Doris Salcedo's Plegaria Muda
Daily Tour
Botta Meets Snøhetta: Architecture in Dialogue
Monday, March 13, 2017, 10:30 a.m.
A view of the SFMOMA oculus from below
Daily Tour
Profound Inspiration: Matisse/Diebenkorn
Thursday, March 16, 2017, 5 p.m.
A woman and two girls looks at a colorful painting by Matisse of two women
Spotlight Tour
Californian Perspectives
Friday, March 31, 2017, 5 p.m.
A group of visitors lean in to get a better look at silkscreened prints by Corita Kent
Spotlight Tour
Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly: Nature and Geometry
Thursday, June 1, 2017, 10:30 a.m.
Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly
Architecture Tour
Art and Architecture in Dialogue
Thursday, June 1, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
Family crossing bridge
Spotlight Tour
Frida Kahlo: Love and Friendship
Saturday, June 17, 2017, 12:30 p.m.
Artwork image, Frida Kahlo's Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931
Exhibition Tour
Special Exhibition: Edvard Munch
Saturday, July 1, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
A tour group standing in front of Edvard Munch's self-portrait Between the Clock and the Bed
Spotlight Tour
Richard Serra’s Sequence
Thursday, August 31, 2017, 5 p.m.
A tour standing outside of Richard Serra's Sequence
Exhibition Tour
Postwar Germany and Beyond
Friday, September 1, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
A tour group looks at a large painting by Anselm Kiefer
Exhibition Tour
Photography: Walker Evans
Friday, October 6, 2017, 12:30 p.m.
A grid of sixten black and white close-cropped photographs of women in hats
Exhibition Tour
Special Exhibition: Robert Rauschenberg
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 4 p.m.
A tour group looking at a taxidermied goat with a a painted face and a tire around its mid-section
Spotlight Tour
Spiders!
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 4 p.m.
A tour group stands beside a large bronze spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois
Architecture Tour
Art and Architecture in Dialogue
Sunday, March 11, 2018, 11:30 a.m.
A tour group in front of a large wooden sculpture on SFMOMA's sculpture terrace
Exhibition Tour
Special Exhibition: Designed in California
Sunday, March 11, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Irregular grid of stacks of colorful punch cards
Exhibition Tour
Welcome to SFMOMA!
Friday, June 1, 2018, 12:30 p.m.
group of people standing in atrium
Exhibition Tour
Contemporary Voices
Friday, June 1, 2018, 1:30 p.m.
Visitors on a tour gazing to the right
Exhibition Tour
Twentieth Century to Now
Friday, June 1, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Visitors looking at Mark Rothko painting
Spotlight Tour
Twentieth Century Masterworks
Saturday, September 1, 2018, 6 p.m.
Artwork image, Jackson Pollock, Guardians of the Secret
Spotlight Tour
Twentieth Century Masterworks
Monday, November 5, 2018, 6 p.m.
Artwork image, Jackson Pollock, Guardians of the Secret
Free, Tours
Art from 1900 to Now
December 6, 2018—December 27, 2018
6:30 p.m. | Thursdays
Floor 2, Red Elevator landing
Visitors looking at Mark Rothko painting
Free, Tours
Art and China after 1989
Thursdays | 6:30 p.m.
a visitor guide speaking to a tour group in Art and China
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
Art and Architecture at SFMOMA
Daily | 12:30 p.m.
group of people standing in atrium
Free, Tours
Twentieth-Century Masterworks
Thursdays | 6 p.m.
Artwork image, Jackson Pollock, Guardians of the Secret
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
In Focus: Photography at SFMOMA
Daily | 11:30 a.m.
A museum guide holds a copy of a Diane Arbus photograph
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
Pop Art and Minimalism: 1960s and Beyond
Daily | 2:30 p.m.
A guided tour in front of Andy Warhol's Triple Elvis
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
Special Exhibition: Vija Celmins
Daily | 1:30 p.m.
blurred image of stars in a dark sky, Vija Celmins
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
Pop Art and Minimalism: 1960s and Beyond
Thursdays | 6:30 p.m.
A guided tour in front of Andy Warhol's Triple Elvis
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
Pop Art and Minimalism: 1960s and Beyond
Daily | 2:30 p.m.
A guided tour in front of Andy Warhol's Triple Elvis
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
Twentieth-Century Masterworks
Thursdays | 6 p.m.
Artwork image, Jackson Pollock, Guardians of the Secret
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
Art from 1900 to Now
Daily | 3:30 p.m.
A group of people gathered around a large painting
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
Postwar Germany and Beyond
Daily | 1:30 p.m.
A tour group looks at a large painting by Anselm Kiefer
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
Suzanne Lacy: Activist Artist
Daily | 3:30 p.m.
Color photograph of a Suzanne Lacy performance
Una nueva mirada: Andy Warhol
May 25, 2019—August 24, 2019
4 p.m.
Spotlight Tour, Tours
Frida Kahlo: Love and Friendship
Thursdays | 6:30 p.m.
Artwork image, Frida Kahlo's Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931
Exhibition Tour, Tours
Andy Warhol Revisited
Daily | 10:30 a.m.
Spotlight Tour
Gerhard Richter: Paint and Light
Daily | 3 p.m.
A group of people listen to a museum guide
Spotlight Tour, Tours
Mark Rothko: Color and Emotion
Daily | 12:30 p.m.
Visitors looking at Mark Rothko painting
Spotlight Tour, Tours
Frida Kahlo: Love and Friendship
Daily | 2:30 p.m.
Artwork image, Frida Kahlo's Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931
Exhibition Tour, Tours
Andy Warhol Revisited
Daily | 1:30 p.m.
Exhibition Tour, Free, Tours
In Focus: Photography at SFMOMA
Daily | 11:30 a.m.
A museum guide holds a copy of a Diane Arbus photograph
Exhibition Tour
Designed for Space: Far Out
December 1, 2019—January 19, 2020
1 p.m.
Exhibition Tour
Artist Citizens: SOFT POWER
November 7, 2019—February 13, 2020
6:30 p.m.
Exhibition Tour
Artist Citizens: SOFT POWER
November 1, 2019—February 17, 2020
2:30 p.m.
Spotlight Tour
Pop Icons
April 16, 2020—May 28, 2020
6 p.m.
A guided tour in front of Andy Warhol's Triple Elvis
Exhibition Tour
In Focus: Photography at SFMOMA
May 26, 2020—August 31, 2020
11:30 a.m.
A museum guide holds a copy of a Diane Arbus photograph
Exhibition Tour
Special Exhibition: David Park
April 25, 2020—September 4, 2020
3:30 p.m.