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Mini-Tours
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
As Halloween’s ghostly ghouls and spectral skeletons prepare to make their annual appearance, this disquieting tour of the collection gets you in a morbid mood with works that remind us of our inevitable mortality.
What better way to celebrate Seeing Things, our object-oriented season of concerts, lectures, performances, and symposia, than with some of the very artworks that have inspired us to look closer at the history, meaning, and importance of things?
Inspired by the exhibition A Case for Wine, this guide treats your artistic palate to a sampling of works—from earthy to fruity. After your tour, enjoy one of the wines suggested by wine expert and author Cathy Mantuano at Terzo Piano or with a picnic in Millennium Park.
Even if you haven’t seen Chicago’s annual Air and Water Show, if you’ve lived anywhere near in the city, you’ve likely heard it. Take a quieter approach to the sky and sea with this month’s high-flying, swift-sailing guide to the collection.
Inspired by Tony Tasset’s giant eyeball sculpture in Pritzker Park, this tour treats your peepers to some of the museum’s most ocularly oriented artworks.
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The Art Institute of Chicago
Bon voyage, Jean-Paul. Your timely visit provided another dimension on Impressionism & Fashion. Hope you make it safely back to 19th-century Paris!