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Special Days | Tours | Children's Activities | Member Events | Videos | Educational Resources

Special Days

Note: Discounts offered on special days are not available in advance.

MATISSE MADNESS: Museum open 32 hours!
During the last weekend of Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris, the NCMA stays open 32 hours straight—from 9 A.M., Sat., Jan. 15, until 5 P.M., Sun., Jan. 16.

Late Nights
Fridays, Nov. 26, 2004, and Jan. 7 and Jan. 14, 2005
Thursdays, Jan. 6 and Jan. 13, 2005
Museum open until 9 p.m.
$6 Exhibition admission offered 5–9 p.m. Must purchase tickets at the Museum Box Office day of event.

Blue Ridge will be open for dinner at 5:30 p.m. on the following Late Night events during Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris:
Nov. 19 and 26
Every Friday night beginning Jan. 7, 2005

Senior Days
Jan. 5, 2005
$9 exhibition admission includes 11 a.m. tour

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Tours

• Tuesday–Thursday, November 2–December 30, excluding November 25 and December 21–23.
  3 p.m. ticket required.
• December 4 and 18 at 11 a.m.
  Free with 11 a.m. exhibition ticket to first 45 visitors
  Note: Docents will be available to answer questions in the galleries if high exhibition attendance prevents the offering of guided tours.
• Guided tours for the Matisse, Picasso exhibition are completely booked and unavailable. Due to the high level of public interest we no longer have the space to accommodate tour requests. Group tickets may still be purchased through the Museum box office.

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Children's Activities

Collection Connection
Families visiting during the Matisse, Picasso exhibition can drop by the Collection Connection for a variety of quick experiences, from trying on a beret to playing with Matisse’s colors in collage.

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Member Events

Contemporaries Event: Mingling with the Masters
Wednesday, January 12, 6–8:30 p.m.
$50 Contemporaries
$55 Museum members
$60 Nonmembers
Mingle with the masters of avant-garde art at the Contemporaries’ celebration of Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris. Enjoy cocktails, dinner and the exhibition, with a special lecture by curator David Steel. Invitations will be mailed to Contemporaries. RSVP to (919) 839-6262, ext. 2121, before January 7.

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Video Presentations

• December and January
  The Ladies Who Loved Matisse (60 min.)
  Actor Michael Palin of Monty Python and A Fish Called Wanda explored his love of art by hosting the film Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse. The documentary, produced for the BBC, tells the story of the famed Cone sisters. Palin traces the Cones’ lives in Baltimore, North Carolina, Paris, Nice and Florence. Shown continuously in the Video Theater during the Matisse, Picasso exhibition.
• Degas and the Dancer (55 min.)
• Matisse and Picasso (29 min.)

UNC-TV Presents special Matisse, Picasso Documentary
Take a 30-minute sneak preview of the Matisse, Picasso exhibition with Museum Director Larry Wheeler, curator David Steel and Katy Rothkopf, curator of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Check your local television listings for dates.

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Educational Resources

1. A gallery guide is available to the public with purchase of an exhibition ticket.
   
2. Hands-on, exhibition-related children’s activities are available daily in the Museum’s Collection Connection.
   
3. For teachers, Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris educational materials will be available for loan and on-line in late summer 2004. On-line lesson plans featuring works of art from the exhibition will be found on the exhibition Web page. Lesson plans include object and artist information and classroom activity ideas for elementary, middle and high schools that integrate the visual arts into all areas of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. Reserve a slide program by calling (919) 839-6262, ext. 2144.

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Top: Paul Cezanne, Bathers, 1898–1900, oil on canvas, 10 5/8 x 18 1/8 in., The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Cone Collection; Bottom: Vincent van Gogh¸ Landscape with Figures, 1889, oil on canvas, 19 5/8 x 25 3/4 in., The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Cone Collection