Baltimore Art Galleries

(Baltimore, Maryland - MD, USA)



Baltimore has a healthy art scene, with many of the city's inhabitants being actively involved with the large galleries and similar museums. The art centers in Baltimore provide facilities for the viewing of works by local, national and international artists, as well as the promotion of art in a range of media.

The city's premier gallery is the Baltimore Museum of Art, which is home to a staggering 100,000 pieces of art work and was founded as far back as 1914. Other galleries of much standing include both the American Visionary Art Museum on the Key Highway and the Maryland Art Place on Market Street, the latter of which is run on a not-for-profit basis and filled with contemporary pieces.


Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA)

Address: 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, Maryland (MD), 21218-3898, USA
Tel: +1 443 573 1700
With a seemingly endless array of paintings, sculptures and decorative arts on display, the Baltimore Museum of Art is perhaps the city's best public facility for the viewing of traditional and contemporary art. Works at the museum are displayed in spacious galleries and include those by Picasso, Cezanne, Matisse, Monet, Van Gogh and Gauguin. The city's Museum of Art is located on the southern side of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) campus, being close to the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Visitors can expect to find the second-biggest collection of Warhol art in the world, as well as many pieces of 18th- and 19th-century American paintings and decorative arts.
Open hours: Wednesday to Friday - 11:00 to 17:00, Saturday and Sunday - 11:00 to 18:00
Admission: charge, discounts for children and seniors

American Visionary Art Museum

Address: 800 Key Highway, Baltimore, Maryland (MD), 21230-3940, USA
Tel: +1 410 244 1900
Standing next to the Federal Hill Park and near to the waterfront, the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore is committed to displaying the work of amateur artists whose primary agenda is not profit, but rather self expression and the love of art. The museum's main building is a massive 35,000-square foot / 3,250-square-meter facility containing a total of six art galleries. Exhibitions change regularly and are frequently themed. Of note, the Maryland Science Center is close by and within easy walking distance.
Open hours: Tuesday to Sunday - 10:00 to 18:00
Admission: charge, discounts for children and seniors

Baltimore Clayworks

Address: 5707 Smith Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland (MD), 21209, USA
Tel: +1 410 578 1919
The Baltimore Clayworks art gallery is located on the northern side of the city, within the Johns Hopkins at Mount Washington university campus, being close to the Mount Washington Conference Center and just past the Cylburn Arboretum. This facility is dedicated to developing and sustaining a community in which individuals interested in the medium of sculpture have the opportunity to nurture those interests, either actively or passively. The Clayworks features exhibitions of works by both local and national sculptors.
Open hours: Monday to Saturday - 10:00 to 17:00, Sunday - 12:00 to 17:00
Admission: free, charge for some events

Maryland Art Place (MAP)

Address: 8 Market Street, Suite 100, Baltimore, Maryland (MD), 21201, USA
Tel: +1 410 962 8565
The centrally located Maryland Art Place is committed to promoting art in all of its many media and providing a showcase for the works of new and up and coming artists from the Maryland area. Besides exhibitions that change regularly throughout the year, there are performance art shows held in the facility's basement. The Art Place was established in the early 1980s and is to be found in the old Pratt Street Power Plant building, within the Inner Harbor area and nearby the National Aquarium.
Open hours: Tuesday to Saturday - 11:00 to 17:00
Admission: free