Adult Group Tours
Private Tours are a great way to experience the Norton's extraordinary Permanent Collection and special exhibitions with the expertise of a museum docent. With the all-inclusive tour package, you receive a 50-minute tour, general admission to the museum galleries, free parking, and a 10% discount on your purchase in The Store.
Artists’ Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection
$30 per person | 30 person maximum | Available April 14, 2025 – October 5, 2025
Diane Venet began to collect artists’ jewelry after her husband, sculptor Bernar Venet, rolled a piece of silver around her finger to make a wedding ring. Since then, she has collected jewelry made by the most famous artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Salvador Dalí, Louise Nevelson and Jeff Koon. Many of the more than 150 pieces of jewelry in this exhibition will be displayed alongside complementary works by the same artists, offering intriguing comparisons between the artists’ signature styles and media and their forays into jewelry-making. Tours will offer up to 10 guests per docent the best opportunity to see and discuss jewelry by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois, Rashid Johnson, Robert Rauschenberg and many more.
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, Leiden 1606 – 1669 Amsterdam), "Self-Portrait with Shaded Eyes", 1634, Oil on panel, 28 x 22 1/16 in. (71.1 x 56 cm), The Leiden Collection, New York
Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection
$25 per person | 60 person maximum | Available October 27, 2025 – March 29, 2026
Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time is a landmark exhibition of 75 works from The Leiden Collection—one of the world’s foremost private collections of 17th-century Dutch art. Opening at the Norton Museum of Art this fall, it will be the largest exhibition of privately held Dutch 17th-century paintings ever organized in the United States. Among the highlights are over a dozen astounding paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn and the only painting by Johannes Vermeer in a private collection.
Organized thematically, the exhibition offers a glimpse into 17th-century life in the Netherlands. People take center stage, as seen in portraits and character studies capturing the social aspirations and individuality of the era’s citizens. Also on view are engaging depictions of everyday activities: market vendors selling their wares, soldiers playing cards, youths engrossed in books, and women writing letters or playing music. Religious and mythological subjects, commonly shown in private homes, reveal the period’s spiritual and intellectual pursuits.
Anastasia Samoylova (American, born Russia, 1984), "Abandoned School Under Highway", Jacksonville, Florida, 2024 and Shara Hughes (American, born 1981), I Don’t Even Know You Anymore, 2011
Shara Hughes: Inside Outside + Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast
$25 per person | 40 person maximum | Available November 17, 2025 – March 1, 2026
The Norton Museum of Art is hosting exhibitions by two extraordinary contemporary artists who use natural and human environments as their sources of inspiration.
Shara Hughes’ mid-career survey exhibition offers an opportunity to see the large-scale, vibrant and surreal landscapes she has painted over the past two decades, as well as related ceramic works she created as an Artist in Residence at the Norton Museum. The exhibition investigates Hughes’ concept of the window as a portal to human experience and invites audiences to explore the interplay between the body and emotion as well as landscapes and dreamscapes.
In her most recent project, photographer Anastasia Samoylova retraced a road trip along Route 1 from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West, that photographer Berenice Abbott took 75 years ago. Just as her predecessor photographed what she saw in the early 1950s, Samoylova explores concepts of national identity, place-making, and nostalgia, and highlights the interplay between natural landscape and human intervention through her own eyes as a Russian immigrant to the United States.
George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882 – 1925), "Winter Afternoon," 1909, Oil on canvas, 30 x 38 in. (76.2 x 96.5 cm), Gift of R. H. Norton, 49.1
Great Work! The Norton Museum of Art Collection
$25 per person | 60 person maximum | Available year-round
Provides a wonderful way for a group to get to know the Museum's founders, Ralph and Elizabeth Norton, the story of the Museum they established 80 years ago, and the diverse collection that has grown to over 8,000 objects including ancient Chinese jades and bronzes, artworks by Gauguin, Picasso, O'Keeffe, Pollock and contemporary pieces by leading artists such as Keith Haring, Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Mickalene Thomas.
Lunch at The Restaurant
Lunch at the museum is a fantastic way for groups to discuss what they have learned on their tour, which artworks they enjoyed or just to take a break. The Restaurant at the Norton offers light, modern-American fare with nods to coastal influence. If you are interested in setting up a dining reservation for your group, you will need to contact The Restaurant directly at 561-268-0500.
Shop at The Store
Your tour would not be complete without visiting The Store at the Norton. Here you will find apparel, jewelry, gifts and much more! Group Tour participants receive a 10% discount (valid on the day of the scheduled tour). The Store is open regular Museum hours.