Get in the holiday spirit with Norman Rockwell!  The Museum Store will spill out into Oscar’s Café with amazing one-of-a-kind jewelry, clothing, art, and other gifts to complete your holiday shopping list.  Enjoy festive holiday music, lunch at Oscar’s, a glass of eggnog or champagne, and a tour of Norman Rockwell’s America.  All members receive 20% off merchandise and complimentary gift-wrapping. The Intimate Interiors exhibition has been extended specifically for Member Shopping Day, plus the Museum will be open until 7pm.

See the full list of events here: 

Unique Gifts // 11AM-7PM: The Museum Store will extend out into the café, with unique trunk show vendors and free gift wrap! 20% Discount on all regularly priced merchandise including pottery, textiles, jewelry, and so much more! 

Holiday Lunch // 11AM-4PM: Oscar's open for lunch, 20% Discount. Reservations: 205.328.7850. 

Book Signing // 11AM-4PM: Meet Jerry Siegel, noted photographer, and get your copy of Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists signed. 

View and Tour Norman Rockwell's America // 11AM - 7PM: Take an in-depth look at the life and work of America's favorite illustrator. Be sure to join Curator Dr. Graham Boettcher on a guided tour at 1PM or 6PM. FREE admission! 

Get Hands-On // 11AM-7PM: Bring your children for Norman Rockwell and holiday-themed art activities in Bart's ArtVenture! and Bart's Lair Under The Stairs. 

Collection Tours // 2:30PM and 4:30PM: Take advantage of a one-hour guided tour  of our collection highlights with one of our docents. 

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry // 5-7PM: Take a load off from your day of shopping and enjoy a sampling of beers and light appetizers. 

Music: Enjoy holiday music throughout the day by local musicians, including Carver High School Choir and Orchestra (Noon), Newcomer Singers (1PM), Piano by Christophe Jackson (2-5PM), MC Squared Combo (5PM), and Embellishments (6PM). 

Give the Gift of Membership: Give a gift that lasts for an entire year!

Friends and Family: Invite your non-member friends and family to enjoy lunch and shop with you. If your friend joins the Museum, you will both receive a gift!

Giveaway: Register to win a Bi-Color Quartz and Sterling Silver Necklace from Charles Albert valued at $1190!

Curator Jeannine O’Grody and art historian Amanda Schedler lead EAS members on a hunt for rarely seen prints and drawings in the Dutch, English, French, and 19th-century galleries. Afterward, we will gather for lunch in the Café.

Please RSVP by November 30 to Carrie Montgomery at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 254-2086.

The Birmingham Museum of Art is pleased to present an after-hours experience on the first Thursday of each month. Wander the galleries, sip cocktails in the garden, catch a movie, or sit down with friends for tapas at Oscar's. The Museum is open for your enjoyment until 9PM.

General Admission is FREE to enjoy the First Thursdays: After Hours at the Museum. Tapas and a cash bar are served in the Cafe. Tapas are $12 per person.

Please CLICK HERE for additional information about this month's theme and activities!

$20 ($10 JUNIOR PATRON MEMBERS) // ALABAMA THEATRE

The Junior Patrons will be celebrating the holidays in December at the historic Alabama Theater. Members and guests will enjoy food from local restaurants, then dance the evening away to Z and the Party Faktory. 

Please contact Carrie Montgomery at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information. 

FREE // STEINER AUDITORIUM

"Ways of Seeing: The Art of Norman Rockwell" by Wanda M. Corn, Ph.D., Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University. 

This lecture will look at Norman Rockwell’s love of art history and the works of art he saw in museums. He often quoted from masterpieces in his illustrations and explored the different ways people look at and engage a work of art. Wanda M. Corn is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita at Stanford University and most recently developed the exhibition and book Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories for the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Retired from teaching since 2007, she continues to guest curate major museum exhibitions. Her museum exhibitions and books include The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1990-1910 (1972); The Art of Andrew Wyeth (1973); and Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (1983). In 2005-06, she transformed her major study, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and American Identity, 1915-35, published by University of California Press in 1999, into a museum exhibition. Dr. Corn’s scholarship on transatlantic modernism focuses on the exchanges and interdependencies of modern artists in Paris and New York, conceptualizing an Atlantic rim of avant-garde culture. She has just completed a book on the decorations woman artists made for the 1893 Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Read about Dr. Corn's lecture on "Women Building History" here. 

The Chenoweth lectures are endowed by Dr. Arthur I. Chenoweth as a memorial to his brother and parents. The purpose of the lectures is to encourage international understanding through the presentation of a variety of subjects by specialists in their fields.