Timeline: The Modernist Art Movement from India

Explore an interactive timeline discussing the Modernist Art movement and the historical events that helped shaped the art in India through photographs and videos.  
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Gateway to Himalayan Art

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This keystone exhibition equips visitors with a working knowledge of the principal concepts of Himalayan art.

Masterworks: Jewels of the Collection

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This audio tour takes visitors through the museum's most stunning works of art. The guide will compare the stylistic diversity and relationships between various strands of Himalayan artistic traditions.

Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet

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This audio tour will help assist visitors in experiencing the iconography associated with early Tibetan portraits while also studying the forensics of the selected pieces.  Narrated by curator David Jackson, he will describe many of the "unknown" attributes assoicated with the exhibition.

Once Upon Many Times: Legends and Myths in Himalayan Art

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This audio tour will discuss the art of Himalayan storytelling: the many themes and forms of visual and oral narratives.

Modernist Art from India: The Body Unbound

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This audio tour will examine works of Indian art from the early 1940s to the mid-1980s, ranging from traditionalist representations of Indian representations of the metaphysical "man" to the socially and politically charged narrative representations that predominated in the 1980s.

Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics

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This podcast explores the exhibition Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics with curator Martin Brauen who discusses the most complete collection of comics related to Tibet ever assembled.

Gateway to Himalayan Art

Gateway to Himalayan Art introduces visitors to the art of the Himalayan cultural sphere, presenting the major concepts comprehensively and equipping visitors with the tools to understand, appreciate and contextualize many of the works of art throughout the museum's six floors of galleries. Along with the exhibition are educational interactives that will help refine the tools given.

Looking Guide

This Looking Guide booklet is designed to help visitors recognize common symbols and important figures that can be seen in the art throughout the museum.

Masterworks: Jewels of the Collection

As an exhibition the Masterworks: Jewels of the Collection showcases the stylistic diversity and relationships between various strands of Himalayan and neighboring cultural and artistic traditions.  Within Explore Areas visitors can experience the following written literature and use hands-on interactives for further informitive information about the museum's collection.

Mirror of the Buddha

Mirror of the Buddha presents exquisite examples of Tibetan Buddhist portraits, painted primarily in the eastern India-inspired Sharri style. Though the Sharri tradition spread from India to many parts of Asia, the style's classic Indian forms, delicate colors, and intricate decorative details were emulated most faithfully by Tibetans and enjoyed particular popularity in Tibet from the 12th to 14th century.

Once Upon Many Times: Legends and Myths in Himalayan Art

The Himalayan region is home to strong narrative traditions-evidence of which is found in a great number of Himalayanworks of art. Once Upon Many Times will present the variety of forms that tell stories of the Buddha, great teachers, legendary masters, spiritual quests, and adventures of heroes painted in thangkas, murals, and told in front of portable shrines. 

Modernist Art from India: The Body Unbound

The Body Unbound examines works of Indian art from the early 1940s to the mid-1980s, ranging from traditionalist representations of Indian representations of the metaphysical "man" to the socially and politically charged narrative representations that predominated in the 1980s.