Exploring the Icons of 17th-Century Dutch Art with Audio Description

Please note: the tour with AD is free with registration; participants can purchase their exhibition tickets when registering.

Come explore 17th-century Dutch culture by viewing artworks by iconic artists such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Rachel Ruysch. This guided 90-minute tour with audio description (AD) includes thematic examinations of paintings, works on paper, and decorative arts that navigate the confluence of art, commerce, and cultural exchange.

We welcome and prioritize visitors who are blind, low vision, or have a learning need that would benefit from an experience that includes AD.

If you have a question about registration or the tour in general, please contact Molly Hull.

Image: Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers, 1709, oil on canvas, 30 × 25.2 in., Promised gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art; Photograph: © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, BostonRembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Self Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill, 1639, etching, plate mark: 8 1/16 × 6 7/16 in., Anonymous gift and Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard; Photograph: © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston