San Francisco Bay Area to Big Sur Region

Regional Representative: Kim Lordier

PRIVATE DOCENT LED TOUR for PSWC Members

MONET and VENICE

June 9, 2026 at 9:30AM

de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA

Although Claude Monet visited Venice only once, his paintings of the city are among his most dazzling. This exhibition, co-organized with the Brooklyn Museum, is the first dedicated to Monet’s Venetian cityscapes since their debut over a century ago. Featuring more than 100 artworks, the exhibition places Monet’s Venice paintings alongside select works from across his career, including his Water Lilies, as well as Venetian views by artists such as Manet, Renoir, and Canaletto. Unlike the bustling scenes painted by other artists, Monet’s Venice is eerily deserted, its architecture, buildings, and canals dissolving in an encompassing, hazy light he described as the enveloppe. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience Monet’s vision of the famed Italian city.

COSTS:

• $20 per person for private docent led tour via PSWC registration
• de Young Museum MONET and VENICE Exhibition ticket (free for Museum members, ~$40 for non-members)

Links for museum tickets and PSWC registration at bottom of this page.

de Young Museum members with current membership numbers get in free plus one guest,  however each person must complete the PSWC $20 registration to join in the group docent led tour.

For de Young Museum members we will need your full name and/or guests name along with your museum membership number for streamlining the check in process.

Everyone needs a de Young Museum ticket. Members sign up for the date and time and use your membership number. For non de Young Museum members tickets must be purchased for the date and time prior to tour. 

Link to purchase museum tickets: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Link to PSWC registration for docent led tour: Register here