Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Phone: 650-723-4177
Experience the Cantor Arts Center through one of free Public Tours.
Explore the Cantor's collections with a docent who will lead you through a selection of works from different cultures and time periods. Conversation and curiosity is encouraged!
3:00 PM Cantor Highlights tours are on pause and resume on Sat., Jan. 21.
East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art
Through Sat., Feb. 11.
Meet in front of Freidenrich gallery (2nd floor)
Explore the Stanford campus and its distinguished collection of outdoor sculpture.
Dress for the weather and wear your walking shoes!
Help us preserve our artwork by refraining from touching outdoor sculpture.
Meet at the top of the Oval near the benches. This docent tour explores the extensive collection of outdoor sculpture in Stanford’s Quad and south campus. This tour lasts ninety (90) minutes.
Meet in the Cantor lobby. Learn from a trained docent as you walk among the diverse collection of outdoor sculpture surrounding the Cantor Arts Center.
Meet at the corner of Santa Teresa and Lomita Drive. 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.
The Cantor Arts Center welcomes all grade levels to enhance their classroom curriculum by exploring the Museum's extensive collection and special exhibitions.
We are not currently offering in-person Private Docent Tours for school groups. Instead, you may schedule a Self-Guided Group Tour for your group of 10 to 20 students. Or, you may schedule a Virtual Guided Visit. Please use the form below to request your tour or visit.
Celebrate the wide-ranging and diverse Cantor Arts Center collection with a highly trained docent as your guide. If you have special interests, please let us know when you schedule your tour.
Self-guided Group Tours allow you to lead your group of 10-20 visitors through the museum at your own pace. Whether you are a family, school, professional, or social group, access our maps and your own curiosity to experience the Cantor Arts Center independently. Audio tours are currently not available.
Stanford faculty and instructors are invited to bring their classes to the Cantor Arts Center for tours and special class sessions. Before visiting the Cantor, All Stanford classes must register via the Academic Programs page.
We are happy to offer your group a Virtual Guided Visit, conducted via Zoom. Virtual Guided Visits are always free. The Virtual Guided Visit may include a general tour of the museum and major highlights of the collection, and lasts 40 minutes (unless otherwise stated.) We offer Virtual Guided Visits for schools and community groups.
Mon-Fri 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Pacific
Submit your Virtual Guided Visit request at least four weeks in advance. Virtual Guided Visits are not available on weekends.
If you have any special requests regarding your Virtual Guided Visit, please let us know and we will try to accommodate them, depending on availability. Please complete and submit the form below to request a Virtual Guided Visit of the museum.
We ask that you submit your Virtual Guided Visit request at least four weeks in advance of your desired date. We will then send an email confirming that your date and time are available, and that your Virtual Guided Visit has been scheduled.
To request a virtual guided visit of the Anderson Collection, please visit this link.
Please feel free to email us with any questions or concerns you may have.