Sit, Stay, Heal

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Sit, Stay, Heal is part of the MFA's Picture of Health initiative, where we invite therapy dog teams into the museum on the fourth Thursday of every month to facilitate stress and anxiety relief for our members, visitors, and guests. Enjoy cuddles from our furry friends in our beautiful gardens...

Sit, Stay, Heal

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Sit, Stay, Heal is part of the MFA's Picture of Health initiative, where we invite therapy dog teams into the museum on the fourth Thursday of every month to facilitate stress and anxiety relief for our members, visitors, and guests. Enjoy cuddles from our furry friends in our beautiful gardens...

Sit, Stay, Heal – May 2021

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Sit, Stay, Heal is a new program, part of the MFA's Picture of Health initiative, where we invite therapy dog teams into the museum on the fourth Thursday of every month to offer stress and anxiety relief for our members and visitors. This month, we are presenting the program to...

Front-line Workers First Fridays

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Front-line Workers First Fridays (FWFF) is a new program under our Picture of Health initiative to celebrate and recognize the outsize responsibility our community’s hospital and front-line health care workers have borne during this current pandemic. The physical and mental toll of caring for others while putting oneself at risk is often understood...

Frontline Workers First Fridays

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Frontline Workers First Fridays (FWFF) is a new program under our Picture of Health initiative to celebrate and recognize the outsize responsibility our community’s hospital and frontline health care workers have borne during this current pandemic. The physical and mental toll of caring for others while putting oneself at risk is often understood...

Front-line Workers First Fridays

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Front-line Workers First Fridays (FWFF) is a new program under our Picture of Health initiative to celebrate and recognize the outsize responsibility our community’s hospital and front-line health care workers have borne during this current pandemic. The physical and mental toll of caring for others while putting oneself at risk is often understood...

Front-line Workers First Fridays

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Front-line Workers First Fridays (FWFF) is a new program under our Picture of Health initiative to celebrate and recognize the outsize responsibility our community’s hospital and front-line health care workers have borne during this current pandemic. The physical and mental toll of caring for others while putting oneself at risk is often understood...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

In complement to Syd Solomon: Views from Above, artist and writer Mike Solomon will speak about his father’s artistic practice.  The discussion will begin in the Acheson Gallery at 6pm, in front of Syd Solomon’s Westcoastalscape (1968). A noted expert on artist’s estates, Mike Solomon is also a practicing artist who has...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Cocktails & Collections, held on the third Thursday of each month, is a series of themed events with connections to art. Each event focuses on one of the MFA galleries or special exhibitions, allowing us to experience the art in different ways. Each month features live music, a customized tour, light bites, art-inspired signature cocktails,...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Cocktails & Collections, held on the third Thursday of each month, is a series of themed events with connections to art. Each event focuses on one of the MFA galleries or special exhibitions, highlighting a different work in the collection. Each month features live music, a customized docent tour, light bites, and art-inspired signature...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Cocktails & Collections, held on the third Thursday of each month, is a series of themed events with connections to art. Each event focuses on one of the MFA galleries or special exhibitions, highlighting a different work in the collection. Each month features live music, a customized docent tour, light bites, and art-inspired...

Bourbon, Jazz, and Herb

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Join the Friends of Photography for this celebration of the exhibition Can I Get a Witness: Photography by Herb Snitzer before it closes on August 5th. Listen to live jazz from James Suggs Trio, sip a signature bourbon, and rub elbows with the famed photographer himself.  Cash bar is available....

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts is proud to present a new monthly event: Cocktails & Collections. The third Thursday of each month, this new evolution of the Porch Party combines the social interactions of the former event, while bringing guests directly into the Museum garden and galleries. Events include live...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts is proud to present a new monthly event: Cocktails & Collections. The third Thursday of each month, this new evolution of the Porch Party combines the social interactions of the former event, while bringing guests directly into the Museum garden and galleries. Events include live...

Make & Take Saturdays

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts is proud to present a new monthly event: Cocktails & Collections. The third Thursday of each month, this new evolution of the Porch Party will combine the social interactions of the former event but bring guests into the Museum garden and galleries. Plans include live...

Make & Take Saturdays

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

Make & Take Saturdays

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

Make & Take Saturdays

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

Collectors Circle Member Reception

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Prior to the Parrish Lecture "A Lifetime of Collecting", Collectors Circle Members gather in the Membership Garden of the MFA for cocktails. Open to Collectors Circle Members Only For information on the Collectors Circle, or to join, contact the Membership Department at membership@mfastpete.org or call 727-896-2667 ext.248

Collectors Circle Member Reception

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Prior to the Parrish Lecture "Behind The Seams", Collectors Circle Members gather in the Membership Garden of the MFA for cocktails. Open to Collectors Circle Members Only For information on the Collectors Circle, or to join, contact the Membership Department at membership@mfastpete.org or call 727-896-2667 ext.248

Vanessa Diaz: Beginning at the Cornice, Not the Foundation

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Opening Reception Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist adept at reworking interior domestic spaces so that the most habitual of settings become distorted. Working in the Museum’s decorative arts galleries and period rooms, Diaz will create site-specific installations that disrupt notions of customs and home décor. The opening reception is free...