Events

  Enjoy free admission on the first Sunday of each month, courtesy of the Nypro Foundation. Artist Adventures: Finding Nature Indoors Stop by the Museum’s front desk for a gallery exploration kit, including a pair of DIY paper binoculars to decorate, a Kraft notebook, and colored pencils, perfect for observing nature and animals in our […]

Free with admission. No registration required. Explore our special exhibition with guest curator, Dennis Sardella, who will discuss reflections on the icon of the Mother of God Kazanskaya, its iconography, form, spiritual journey, allure, and beauty, as well as its cooption by political and religious actors up to our modern times. Dennis will be available […]

Members $20, Not-yet-members $30 Limited to 80 seats; tickets at the door if available  .stk-2ti1w5q .stk-button{padding-right:25px !important;padding-left:25px !important;background:var(--theme-palette-color-2,#6F0000) !important;border-top-left-radius:4px !important;border-top-right-radius:4px !important;border-bottom-right-radius:4px !important;border-bottom-left-radius:4px !important}.stk-2ti1w5q .stk-button__inner-text{font-weight:600 !important;text-transform:uppercase !important;letter-spacing:1.2px !important}Register Greek Chorale Boston, directed by Panayota Haloulakou, has shared the rich variety of Greek music and culture with audiences throughout New England since 2019. Collaborating with Cretan singer […]

Members Free, Not-yet-members $15. Limited to 80 seats, tickets at door if available This talk uses the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan as a case study to highlight how Russia's political leaders invoke the notion of "sacred" history as political discourse. Drawing on hundreds of years of icon tales (skazaniia) linked to […]

Enjoy free admission on the first Sunday of each month, courtesy of the Nypro Foundation. Film – The Return of the Icon Showing at 11:00 am and 1:00pm (Length 1 hour and 20 minutes) Enjoy a free showing of the film The Return of the Icon According to tradition, the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother […]

Free with admission. No registration required. Explore our special exhibition with guest curator, Dennis Sardella, who will discuss reflections on the icon of the Mother of God Kazanskaya, its iconography, form, spiritual journey, allure, and beauty, as well as its cooption by political and religious actors up to our modern times. Dennis will be available […]

To Honor and Adorn: Icons and their Covers in late Imperial Russia Free. Registration required.  The practice of adorning icons with metal covers is today one of the least understood aspects of the icon's history and function. As older icons came to be seen as works of art in the early twentieth century, their covers […]

The Museum will be closed on Thursday, July 4, for the Independence Day holiday. We will reopen to the public on Friday, July 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.