Art Institute of Chicago: In-Person Tour with Optional Lunch After

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Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, Chicago, Il, Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: In-Person Tour with Optional Lunch After

Name: Art Institute of Chicago: In-Person Tour with Optional Lunch After
Start: 2026-08-08T16:15:00.000Z
End: 2026-08-08T19:15:00.000Z
Location: Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, Chicago, Il, Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, Chicago, Il, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603Saturday, Aug 8 · 11:15 AM

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Art Institute of Chicago: In-Person Tour with Optional Lunch After - Hosted by Robert Kelleman Let's visit the Impressionism and American galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of my favorite places, for a guided, in-person tour, followed by an optional lunch afterwards in the museum cafe. The tour itself is free, you'll just need to pay for your museum admission and lunch. Please note that this is an in-person event, not an online/virtual program over Zoom. Additional details including the specific meeting point when we get closer to the event date. **Art Institute of Art: The American Collection** **YouTube Preview - Watch Before and/or After Our Program** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e1VzMzT5Ow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e1VzMzT5Ow) **Art Institute of Chicago - YouTube Previously Recorded Programs** Monet & Impressionism [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r0HPC5rSpI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r0HPC5rSpI) Renoir & Impressionism [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBrB_y6s5XY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBrB_y6s5XY) *** **The Art Institute of Chicago**, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. It is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes works such as Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present curatorial and scientific research. As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, one of the nation's largest art history and a