About this Event
Celebrate Women's History Month in Advance By Meeting Courageous Women in the Art of the Met.
Our Art Historian and Tour Guide:
A four-time winner of the Harvard Certificate for Excellence in Teaching. has taught art history and Classics at Harvard, Columbia, and NYU. Lear is the founder of , the first company to offer tours focused on LGBT history, and the winner of the Travel Industry’s 2016 Travvy Award for best-escorted tour operator, LGBT; and the Luxury Travel Guide’s 2016 LGBT Tour Operator of the Year. Lear also founded , dedicated to sharing the stories of strong and powerful women that can be found on the walls of museums. In 2021, Lear founded , an educational nonprofit dedicated to raising public awareness of LGBTQ histories and stories.
Throughout history, there have been courageous women—brave, sometimes outspoken path-breakers who made themselves heard in a male-centric world.
The Met’s walls are full of examples of strong women who transcended their times. From an entire gallery dedicated to a female Pharaoh to paintings by and of famous suffragettes, the Met has a surprisingly rich collection of women who ruled, frightened, patronized, and politicked—in short, women who remain role models today.
During our fun and informative two-hour walking tour of the Met, you will discover:
- the queen who started Egypt’s Valley of the Kings
- the fertility goddess who preceded Zeus in the Greek world
- the female monsters of Ancient Greek mythology
- the first famous woman painter
- Marie Antoinette’s “marketing director”
- an 18th-century female scientist
- the courtesan who stared down the Jacobins of Revolutionary France
- the feminism of Mary Cassatt’s paintings
- the Met’s great suffragette donor
You’ll meet and learn about these and other compelling historical figures who refused to live their lives in silence.
Join us on a rare opportunity to see this phenomenal, private museum tour!
Receive $200 off an LGBTQ History Trip of India or Japan!
Mention OUT PRO when booking or the with Professor Andrew Lear of Oscar Wilde Tours to save $200, in addition to any other incentives.
“It was one of the best trips we have ever taken. Professor Lear is knowledgeable, personable, and funny, and his explanations cover a wide range of topics, including things that get left out in most tours.” — Bennet Marks
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States
USD 60.54 to USD 76.54
