Cantor Arts Center

The Cantor Arts Center plays a strong role in art education for students of all ages by offering docent-guided tours free to schools and not-for-profit groups. Schools from all over the Bay Area enhance their curriculum by attending tours of the Center’s diverse collections.

For information on how to register, visit museum.stanford.edu/tours

Schools can choose from the following tours:

Introduction to the Cantor Arts Center
This introductory tour features objects from a variety of cultures and historic periods. These tours are personalized for the group.

Tours of Changing Exhibitions

Contemporary Art
This tour focuses on the contemporary art collection in the Friedenrich Family Gallery, which features works from the 1950s to the present and reflects the innovations that make this art so dynamic and exciting.

Outdoor Sculpture Walk
This tour explores the Stanford campus and its extensive outdoor collection of 20th-century sculpture in the quad and south campus area.

Outdoor Sculpture Around the Museum
This tour begins in front of the Cantor Arts Center with marble statues, dating from 1891, that flank the main entrance. The tour continues with the work of Auguste Rodin, Beverly Pepper, Mark di Suvero, and Andy Goldsworthy.

Rodin Sculpture Garden and Galleries
The B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden features 20 bronzes by Auguste Rodin, including The Gates of Hell, and is open to the public. The Center also devotes three indoor galleries to the work of Rodin.

Memorial Church
Located in the Main Quad, a few minutes’ walk from the Center, the Stanford Memorial Church is the physical heart of the campus, replete with stained glass windows, mosaics, and stone carvings.

Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden
Created on-site at Stanford by artists from Papua New Guinea, the garden contains wood and stone carvings of people, animals, and magical beings that illustrate clan stories and creation myths. It is located at Santa Teresa Street (off Campus Drive West) and Lomita Drive, near Roble Hall