Whether you are at the Museum, home, or planning your next visit, audio guides provide a variety of voices from artists, curators, and community members speaking about the Museum’s global collection and exhibitions.
Additional Platforms and Features
You can always listen to audio guides on our website, but we also provide additional platforms with unique features.
Connect with SLAM and local museums, Contemporary Art Museum and Pulitzer Art Foundation. Features include downloads for offline access, an interactive map, and guides to over 250 cultural institutions.
Discover a global art database with over 2 million objects, augmented reality experiments, and create a personal collection.
Recent Exhibition Guides
Matisse and the Sea
The exhibition audio guide examines the significance of the sea across French modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career. Listen to the Director’s welcome, curator Simon Kelly, art historians, wildlife veterinarian, and conservation biologist.
Shimmering Silks: Traditional Japanese Textiles, 18th–19th Centuries
This exhibition audio guide celebrates silk pieces from the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum, which has been collecting fine Japanese textiles for more than a century.
Featured Collection Guide
Harris-Stowe State University Speaks
This audio guide features student voices connecting their interpretation of art from the Museum’s collection and themes recognized in hip hop.
Max Beckmann
The Saint Louis Art Museum has the world’s largest collection of paintings and prints by Max Beckmann. This guide features a selection of works introducing the artist’s captivating art and eventful life.
Animals in Art
We invited guest experts to share their knowledge and experiences to broaden our understanding of animal behavior and why artists would choose to represent particular animals. This guide is intended for visitors of all ages.
Power of Place
This audio guide celebrates arts of the African diaspora, featuring diverse Black, African, and African American people, artists, and cultures.
Past Exhibition Guides
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Aso Oke: Prestige Cloth from Nigeria
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Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s–1970s
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New to the Museum: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
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Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape
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Age of Armor: Treasures from the Higgins Armory Collection at the Worcester Art Museum
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Day & Dream in Modern Germany, 1914–1925
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Global Threads: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz
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Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection
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Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530–1800
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Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration
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Nubia: Treasures of Ancient Africa
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Storm of Progress: German Art After 1800 from the Saint Louis Art Museum
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Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí
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Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Paul Gauguin: The Art of Invention
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Rachel Whiteread
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Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now
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Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds
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Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade
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Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan
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Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum
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The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs