Spotlight Tour: Civil War Bibles

This twenty-minute Spotlight Tour focuses on surviving Scriptures from the Civil War, when pocket copies of the New Testament or the entire Bible were first regularly distributed to both Union and Confederate soldiers. 

FREE with museum admission!

Third Thursday event: on the third Thursday of every month, MOBIA offers free admission from 6:00-8:00 pm.

Spotlight Tour: Triptych for the Armed Services

This Spotlight tour brings together the Triptych for the Armed Services and WW II Editions of the New Testament from the exhibition, Walls Speak.  FREE with museum admission!

Spotlight Tour: St. John the Evangelist from St. John’s Grace Episcopal Church, Buffalo, NY

This twenty minute Spotlight Tour focuses on the altarpiece to St. John the Evangelist and represented scenes from the life of Jesus, created for St. John’s Grace Episcopal Church in Buffalo, NY.  FREE with museum admission!

Curator’s Tour: Finding Comfort in Difficult Times

This exhibition brings together a large number of “Soldiers’ Bibles” that document individual lives within the tragic context of war. Dr. Diana Lupas, Curator of the Rare Bible Collection @ MOBIA, leads this free tour of the exhibition.

FREE with museum admission.  Registration required. Click Register at left or call MOBIA at 212.408.1251.

Hildreth Meière: A Daughter’s Perspective

Louise Meière Dunn, Hildreth Meière’s daughter and the President of the International Hildreth Meière Association, Inc., will present an illustrated lecture that traces Meière’s secular commissions. This is a rare opportunity to gain an intimiate portrait of the artist as only a daughter can paint!

FREE. Registration required. Click Register at left or call MOBIA at 212.408.1251.

Third Thursday event: on the third Thursday of every month, MOBIA offers free admission from 6:00-8:00 pm.

Spotlight Tour: Commissions for St. Mark’s Church, Mount Kisco, NY

This twenty-minute Spotlight Tour focuses on the three panels Meière painted for the altarpiece of St. Mark’s Church at the request of Bertram Goodhue, one of the foremost liturgical architects in America.  FREE with museum admission!

Spotlight Tour: Commissions for National Cathedral, Washington D.C.

Join us at MOBIA for a twenty-minute Spotlight Tour on this commission of niche mosaics depicting scenes following Christ’s Resurrection for the National Cathedral. 

FREE with museum admission!

Art & Architecture: Guided Tour of St. Bartholomew’s

St. Bartholomew’s is a registered New York City Landmark that features beautiful mosaics in 24 karat gold created by Hildreth Meière. Join Becca Earley Richards, lead docent and author of Holy Light: The Iconography and History of the Stained Glass of St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City, for a guided tour of this city gem.

This tour is co-sponored by MOBIA and St. Bartholomew’s Church.  St. Bart’s is located at 325 Park Avenue at the corner of 51st Street. 

Registration required. Click Register at left or call MOBIA at 212. 408.1251.

Curator’s Tour: Walls Speak

Catherine Coleman Brawer, curator of Walls Speak: The Narrative art of Hildreth Meière will lead an in-depth examination of the artist’s liturgical commissions on view at MOBIA. 

FREE. Registration required. Click Register at left or call MOBIA at 212.408.1251.

Third Thursday event: on the third Thursday of each month, MOBIA offers free admission from 6:00-8:00 pm.

Spotlight Tour: Dome of the Twelve Apostles, Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis

The twenty-minute Spotlight Tour will focus on the dome of the twelve apostles, the most important of many designs created for the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis.  FREE with museum admission!