Five Evenings of Art in the Dark Tours at Fenimore Art Museum in October

Art in the Dark Tours
October 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 • Tours at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. Reservations required.
To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org

COOPERSTOWN, NY — See Fenimore Art Museum’s collections in a way never experienced before–in the dark–with Art in the Dark tours. Join museum guides as they lead you through the galleries of American folk art and fine art by lantern light, stopping along the way to share some of the mysterious, melancholy, and untold stories within the artworks. Discover hidden secrets within the paintings with the help of a special ultraviolet light. The 45-minute tours are offered twice per night. Tours take place on October  22, 23, 24, 29, and 30 at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.Reservations are required. Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org.

Fenimore Art Museum is located at 5798 State Route 80, less than one mile from the center of Cooperstown. For more information visit FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.