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Mini-Tours

Looking for a fun introduction to the Art Institute or a new way to explore the collection?

Download our FREE Art Institute Tours app, available for Apple and Android devices, and enjoy 50 personalized tours of the collection that make use of the museum's free Wi-Fi and indoor positioning system to provide step-by-step directions from one artwork to the next.

Or, find 80 different themed mini-tours, available as PDFs, below.

Please note: Works featured in past mini-tours may be off view due to gallery renovations or regular rotations of the museum's collection. Works in the most recent mini-tour are currently on view. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Mini-Tour PDFs

Art in Vogue
October, 2008

On this voguish voyage through the museum, the galleries are the fashion runway. Strut to the following style-studded stops and decide for yourself whose designs are in and whose are out.

360 Degrees: Art beyond Borders
September, 2008

In anticipation of our new season’s globe-spanning array of lectures, concerts, readings, symposia, and performances, this guide explores some of the museum’s early acquisitions from across the world—the very beginnings of our encyclopedic collection.

A Feast for the Eyes
June, 2008

Your mouth is not the only organ with great taste. Savor the museum’s buffet of visual flavors as this gourmandizing guide explores how artists throughout the centuries and across the world have transformed the edible into the artistic.

Architecture in Art
May, 2008

With only a year until the dramatic new Modern Wing opens, we can’t help but be excited about the union of architecture and art. Join in the thrilling anticipation as this tour explores these often interwoven creative fields.

April in Paris
April, 2008

Join us as we celebrate our world-renowned Impressionist and PostImpressionist collection before it travels to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, as the largest loan in the museum’s history. Before the galleries dedicated to these works undergo renovations, wish these treasures a “bon voyage” with a stroll through the collection’s Parisian streets and blossoming French countryside.

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