Audio Guide

Our audio guides offer you complete flexibility when you're touring the galleries. Visitors can begin with any artwork marked with the audio guide icon and go through the galleries in any order they prefer. 

  • Audio guides are available in English, French, and Spanish.
  • The commentary is presented in a conversational tone appealing to all listeners.
  • Guides include special exhibition tours when available.

Renting an Audio Guide

  • Guides can be rented for $7 per person ($5 for members). They are free for visually impaired visitors and their escorts.
  • They can be purchased with admission tickets or at the audio guide counter in the Michigan Avenue or Modern Wing lobbies.
  • Guides can be returned to their original rental location and picked up later the same day with a receipt if breaks are taken for lunch or other plans.

Currently Available Tours

 Lions Trail Family Tour

The Lions Trail tour is designed for children ages 5 to 10 for an informative, dramatic, and fun tour of the collection. Listen in English or Spanish. This tour has 32 stops.

 Collection Highlights

Listen to informative commentary on works representing 5,000 years of artistic achievement. Collection highlights include art from the following areas: China, Japan, Korea, India, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, ancient Egypt and the Near East, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and Europe (Renaissance to Modern). In the Modern Wing, hear about 20th-century and contemporary works—in some cases, from the voices of the artists themselves.

Listen to selected collection highlights:

Claude Monet's Haystack Series

Gloria Groom, David and Mary Winton Green Curator of 19th-Century European Painting and Sculpture

Pablo Picasso's Mother and Child and The Red Armchair

Douglas Druick, President and Eloise W. Martin Director

Marc Chagall's White Crucifixion

Stephanie D'Alessandro, Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator of Modern Art

On Kawara's Oct. 31, 1978 (Today Series, "Tuesday")

James Rondeau, Dittmer Chair and Curator, Department of Contemporary Art

Richard Serra's Weights and Measures

Richard Serra

Guide Audio en Français

Venez découvrir en français une sélection d'œuvres, du 16ème au 20ème siècle, et principalement de la période impressionniste, commentées par le directeur du musée et ses conservateurs. Apprenez comment des mécènes de Chicago ont fait l’acquisition de peintures impressionnistes françaises à partir de la fin du 19ème siècle, réunissant ainsi l’une des plus importantes collections impressionnistes et post-impressionnistes des Etats-Unis, dont des œuvres majeures telles que Un Dimanche Après-midi à l’Ile de la Grande-Jatte de Seurat et Au Moulin-Rouge de Toulouse-Lautrec. L’aile moderne, quant à elle, présente des chefs-d’œuvre du 20ème siècle, du Cubisme au Surréalisme.

Ecoutez un extrait du guide audio en Français.

Renoir, Deux Soeurs (Sur la terrasse)

 

Gauguin, Le jour du dieu

 

Dalí, Visions d'Eternité

 

Audioguía en Español

Escuche información sobre obras de artistas españoles y de arte de todo el mundo desde la escultura griega y romana a la pintura Impresionista y obras maestras de El Greco y Dalí. También puede explorar obras de las antiguas civilizaciones de Meso- y Sudamérica, obras maestras de la Edad Media y Renacimiento, escultura asiática, arte de África y atrevidas instalaciones contemporáneas. La colección incluye dos de las obras más famosas del arteamericano: Nighthawks de Edward Hopper y American Gothic de Grant Wood.

Escuche las partes más destacadas de el audioguía en español.

El Greco, Assumption of the Virgin

 

Goya, José Manuel Romero

 

Rivera, Weaver

 

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