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Research Visits

With over 42,000 works, the Cantor’s permanent collection offers a vast range of possibilities for research and inquiry. We are here to help facilitate private viewings of works in our permanent collections, whether you are an artist, writer, historian, or scholar.

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Digital Guide

Our digital guide on the Bloomberg Connects app features over 50 works from the Cantor’s collection, and includes audio guides and highly descriptive tours from curators, Stanford students, and community members. Dive deeper into your favorite works at home—anywhere, anytime, all with one free download from the App Store or Google Play.

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Video Archive

Explore hundreds of videos from Cantor’s archive, featuring talks, lectures, performances, symposiums, and more.

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Learning Guides

Digital & printable PDFs and in-depth object narratives from our collection 

Our curators have prepared special learning guides for use with Stanford coursework and research. Videos and virtual gallery talks will be available in the upcoming weeks!

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Publications

Explore digitized catalogs and other museum publications to go deeper on current and past exhibitions.


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Spirit House

Hardcover
192 pages
$54 general public / $49 members / $32 students
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Day Jobs

Hardcover
340 pages
$65 general public / $58 members / $39 students
book

Museum Builders in the West: The Stanfords as Collectors and Patrons of Art, 1870–1906

Softcover
139 pages
$14 general public / $12 members / $8 students
book

Introduction to the Rodin Collection of the Cantor Arts Center

Softcover
83 pages
$12 general public / $10 members / $7 students