Museums
Baltimore Museum of Art
Est.1914
The Baltimore Museum of Art is decidedly a treasure house of art and sculpture, located on the edge of the campus of Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland. It is just three miles north of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Founded in 1914, the building was designed by architect John Russell Pope. Over the years, 200,000 square feet have been added to the original building, creating two new wings of display space. Whole rooms are replicated from six Maryland historic houses, and galleries are filled with American paintings and sculptures from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
The BMA houses an entire gallery of Andy Warhol's work (the second largest publicly displayed collection in the world), within a wing devoted to post-1945 art. It also contains the collections of early-20th-century modern art which include more than 40 paintings and hundreds of sketches and prints. Donated by two Baltimore benefactresses, Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone, the Cone Collection comprises of works by Cezanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Renoir, and Picasso. The American Painting and Decorative Arts collection spans the three floors of the John Russell Pope Building. The collection of early-American paintings offers a glimpse of what life was like in the colonies. Also in the BMA’s collection are artifacts alluding to the mystery of long-past cultures of Oceania, Africa, and the Americas. Old Masters, American furniture, and salvaged architectural elements are of special interest among them. Other collectibles include European paintings and sculpture, as well as prints, drawings, and photographs. The Baltimore Museum of Art offers assisted listening devices (ALDs) for programs in the Meyerhoff Auditorium. Sculpture Touch Tours for the blind and visually impaired are available upon request. The museum also boasts three acres of sculpture garden and a restaurant. The museum gift shop sells stunning reproductions in addition to picture postcards.
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