The Springfield Museums’ monthly tour and lecture schedule continues in June with the popular Museums à la Carte lectures, which take place on Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. in the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Admission is $4 ($2 for members of the Springfield Museums); visitors are invited to bring a bag lunch (cookies and coffee are provided). For more information about Museums à la Carte, call 413-263-6800, ext. 488. This month’s lectures are:

• June 2 – Off to the Races: Horse Races in Currier & Ives Prints. Julia Courtney, Curator of Art, and Maggie North, Curatorial Assistant, Springfield Art Museums, examines America’s infatuation with horse racing as depicted in the current exhibit of prints from the D’Amour Museum’s renowned collection.
• June 9 – The Feminine Side of Twentieth Century Art. Robin Hoffman and Jodi Stiffelman, co-founders of ArtScapades, discuss how artists like Georgia O’Keefe, Frida Kahlo and Lee Krasner laid a foundation for women artists in the 20^th century and beyond.
• June 16- Illuminate Ground: Finding a Personal Vision of the Landscape. Michael Zide, award-winning landscape photographer, educator and speaker, explores how to use photography to weave natural elements together to tell a story with power and emotional tone.
• June 23 – The Artistry of Bosch: Renaissance Naturalism, Allegory, and Imagination. Robert Baldwin, Associate Professor of Art History at Connecticut College, examines how Hieronymus Bosch blended encyclopedic scenes of everyday life handled as moral allegory and fantastic scenes of sin and punishment.
• June 30 – At Home With Nature: The Natural World Under Glass. John N. Whitenight, artist, educator and author, looks at how cabinets of curiosities assembled by gentlemen naturalists and collectors evolved into the today’s natural history museums.

As part of the Museums’ members-only “Continuing Conversations” series, art docent Kate Belhumeur will lead a guided gallery discussion at the D’Amour Museum following the June 9 lecture. As a rare treat, Robert Baldwin will lead his own post-lecture discussion on June 23 at the D’Amour Museum.

Monthly Walking Tours are presented on second Saturdays in collaboration with the Armoury-Quadrangle Civic Association (AQCA). Walking tours are free for Springfield Museums and AQCA members, $5 nonmembers, and start at the Museums’ Welcome Center. On June 11, architect Bill Devlin will lead a tour titled “How to Read a Building.”