Group Visits
Schedule a group visit to explore the Museum’s collections or let us bring the Museum to your community group. Drawing from the more than 117,000 objects, our group programs explore global art from antiquity to the present. The Museum strives to tailor each program to meet your group’s interests and needs through dynamic conversations and audience-centered engagement.
Reservations will open in Fall 2025 for group visits in Spring 2026. If you have questions, please contact the tour office at puamtour@princeton.edu.
If you are a K-12 teacher and would like more information on class visits, see For K-12 Teachers
If you are a university professor and would like more information on class visits, see For Faculty
On-Campus Experiences
Plan a visit to explore the Museum’s new galleries, art on campus, Art@Bainbridge, activities in the Creativity Labs, or a combination of experiences.
All groups must make a reservation at least 4 weeks in advance for guided, self-guided, and Creativity Lab visits. Guided tours are approximately 1 hour.
Guided Group Tours
Enjoy selections from across time, geography, and medium that showcase the truly globe-spanning scope of the Museum’s collections as well as architectural highlights of the building and site-specific commissions.
Princeton University is home to one of the country’s most extraordinary collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century public sculpture, located throughout campus. Schedule a guided walking tour of the campus collections and see a variety of works by modern and contemporary sculptors, from Henry Moore to Maya Lin. Learn about materials and techniques and explore elements of design and balance.
Choose from two campus neighborhoods to tour: Main Campus or Residential Colleges. All tour routes are stair free.
Groups are welcome to explore campus art on their own. Resources about the collections and artists, including audio descriptions and commentary, are available online at Campus Art Princeton.
Art@Bainbridge is a gallery project of the Museum, located in the carefully restored colonial-era Bainbridge House in downtown Princeton. Scheduled visits to Art@Bainbridge include an introduction to the space and the current exhibition and may include a facilitated group activity.
As Art@Bainbridge is intimate in scale, this experience is available for groups of 8 to 15. Visit length varies.
Learn more about Art@Bainbridge and the current exhibition on view.
Fees for Guided Tours
- Fees for Guided Tours
- $150 for 8 to 25 participants
- $300 for 26 to 50 participants
Creativity Labs
Schedule a Creativity Lab visit for a hands-on activity rooted in reflection, discovery, and play. Customized to meet your group’s interests and abilities, activities explore a variety of themes, materials and mediums, art-making processes, and modes of expression. Consider pairing your guided or self-guided visit with a Creativity Lab activity to deepen engagement through this tactile making experience.
There are two Creativity Labs. Each Lab can accommodate up to 25 participants. Activities are 30 to 90 minutes.
Creativity Lab Programs
Program descriptions will be coming soon
There are two Creativity Labs. Each Lab can accommodate up to 25 participants. Activities are 30 to 90 minutes. Fees are based on the group activity.
Local and Virtual Programs
Bring the Museum to your group with a docent presentation that dives into the Museum’s rich collections. Drawing upon more than 117,000 works of art spanning the world from antiquity to the present, our adult programs explore the breadth and depth of the collections through chronological, geographical, and cross-disciplinary narratives.
Programs are approximately one hour in duration and can be planned as a series.
In-person programs can be hosted at community locations—e.g., community centers, local libraries, care facilities—located within a 20-mile radius of Princeton University. Programs are available Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., with 12 p.m. being the latest program start time; dates should be reserved at least one month in advance. Fee: $250
Virtual programs are available Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., with 3 p.m. being the latest program start time; dates should be reserved at least one month in advance. Groups are responsible for providing a Zoom link for the program. Fee: $60
To schedule a local or virtual program, email the tour office at puamtour@princeton.edu.
Local and Virtual Program Options
Enjoy selections from across time, geography, and medium that showcase the truly universal scope of the Museum’s collections. A program might include an ancient Mediterranean vase, an Asian hanging scroll, Maya ceramics, African sculpture, European paintings, American photography, or recent acquisitions of twenty-first-century art.
Examine the depth and breadth of American art, including historical and contemporary Indigenous art, Euro-American portraiture and landscapes, and groundbreaking modern paintings.
Visit nineteenth-century France, home to celebrated artists such as Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Monet. Learn about the artists and their innovative painting techniques.
Explore the impact and relativity of color, the role of light sources, and the relationship between light and shadow in works of art across time and cultures.
Survey developments in Western art from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Learn about the innovations and new perspectives that prompted generations of artists to reach beyond accepted traditions.
Explore depictions of women in art from across time and various cultures, as well as thought-provoking contributions made by female artists to contemporary artistic movements, particularly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Discover what art reveals about the life, traditions, and beliefs of earlier cultures through objects such as ancient Roman mosaics, an Olmec sculpture, a Northwest Coast rattle, African ceremonial masks, and early Chinese bronze vessels.
If you have questions, please contact the tour office at puamtour@princeton.edu. Reservations will open in Fall 2025 for group visits in Spring 2026.