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Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Details
- Hours of operation: Hours are Sunday - Tuesday, Thursday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Last admission is
sold 30 minutes prior to closing.
Trained museum guides are available five days a week (Wednesday through Sunday) and on a first-come, first-served basis. Each tour begins promptly at 2 p.m. and lasts approximately 45 minutes (subject to change due to availability). Tours are complimentary with the purchase of any admission. - Cost: $15 for visitors 13 and older; $12 for Nevada residents and seniors 65 and older; $10 for military, teachers and college students;
Children 12 years old and younger are free. Annual memberships are also available. An audio tour of the gallery is included
in the price of the exhibit.
Every Wednesday from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m., Las Vegas residents can purchase tickets for $8. Every third Wednesday of the month, locals also have the opportunity to enjoy curatorial tours of the exhibition led by the gallery's director or the curatorial advisor. Please call for more details. - Payment options: Cash, MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover.
- Reservations: Tickets are available 30 days in advance. Purchasing advance tickets is encouraged; call (702) 693-7871 or (877) 957-9777. The gallery can also arrange private parties and events. Please call for more details.
- Location: Located inside the Bellagio hotel-casino at the intersection of Flamingo Road and the Las Vegas Strip.
- Age/Height/Weight restrictions: You must be 18 years of age or a registered hotel guest to enter the Bellagio. Guests under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Strollers are not allowed inside the gallery.
Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Review
The Bellagio hotel boasts some of Las Vegas' biggest artistic masterpieces. The hotel lobby's ceiling is adorned with a Dale Chihuly sculpture, commissioned exclusively for Bellagio. The piece, called Fiori di Como, is made of 2,000 colorful hand-blown glass flowers. The Picasso restaurant inside the Bellagio not only offers gourmet cuisine, but also surrounds diners with an extensive collection of original Picasso artwork.
But by far the largest display of art in the hotel can be found in the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art. The gallery presents world-class exhibitions of art and objects drawn from internationally known museums and private collections. Past exhibitions have included Monet masterworks, Andy Warhol's celebrity portraits, Faberge treasures from the Kremlin and Alexander Calder mobiles.
Beginning Feb. 18, 2012 through Jan. 6, 2013, BFGA presents "Claude Monet: Impressions of Light." Organized in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), this showcase features 20 pieces by Claude Monet, the founder of French Impressionist painting. Monet's works will be accompanied by eight additional canvases by his predecessors and contemporaries. These include Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Camille Pissarro and Eugene Louis Boudin. It was from Monet’s collaboration with these painters (along with his own explorations of the French countryside), that his signature style emerged.
All of these works are drawn from the MFA, which holds one of the largest collections of paintings by Claude Monet outside of Paris.
-- Staff Report
Photo credit: Claude Monet, "Grainstack (Sunset)," 1891. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection.
