The Baltimore Museum of Art was founded in 1914 and houses a collection of 95,000 objects. The museum’s collection includes over 1,000 works by Henri Matisse as well as many other famous artist’s paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs.
The museum’s galleries showcase collections of art from around the world with significant contributions from Africa, Europe, Asia, and America.
The museum is also home to 18,000 works of French mid-19th-century art making it’s collection one of the most significant holdings of French Art in America.
The museum’s neoclassical building was designed in the 1920s, and the facilities include two landscaped gardens with 20th-century sculpture.
The Liertist (Le mensonge) by Félix Vallotton, 1898
Highlights of the Baltimore Museum of Art
- A Pair of Shoes by Vincent van Gogh,1887
- Paysage Bords de Seine by Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1879
- Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry by Paul Cézanne, 1897
- Rinaldo and Armida by Sir Anthony van Dyck, 1629
- Ancient woman with child, Maya, or Jaina, 7th-10th century
- African Art – over 2,000 objects from ancient Egypt to contemporary Zimbabwe
- American Art Collection – includes paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts spanning from the colonial era to the late 20th century
- Antioch Mosaics – from the ancient city, known today as Antakya, Turkey, near the border of Syria
- Art of the Ancient Americas – includes works from 2500 BC to AD 1521
- Art of the Pacific Islands – representing several cultural traditions of the Pacific Islands, including Melanesia and Polynesia
- Asian Art – includes works from China, Japan, India, Tibet, Southeast Asia, and the Near East
A Pair of Shoes by Vincent van Gogh,1887
Baltimore Museum of Art
- Name: Baltimore Museum of Art
- City: Baltimore
- State: Maryland
- Country: United States
- Established: 1914
- Type: Art museum
- Location: 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Baltimore Museum of Art – Map
Baltimore Museum of Art – 360 Virtual Views
Baltimore Museum of Art – 360 Virtual Views
Baltimore Museum of Art – 360 Virtual Views
Baltimore Museum of Art – 360 Virtual Views
Baltimore Museum of Art – 360 Virtual Views
A Tour of New York Museums
- Metropolitan Museum of Art – MET
- Museum of Modern Art, NYC
- Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum
- Neue Galerie New York
- The Cloisters
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- American Museum of Natural History
- Museum of the City of New York
- New-York Historical Society
- Frick Collection
- Met Breuer
- Rubin Museum of Art
- Jewish Museum
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Brooklyn Museum
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Virtual Tour of the Museums in Washington, D.C.
- National Gallery of Art
- National Museum of American History
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Portrait Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The Phillips Collection
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- International Spy Museum
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- National Museum of the United States Navy
- National Museum of the American Indian
- National Postal Museum
- National Museum of African Art
- National Building Museum
- Smithsonian National Zoological Park
- National Law Enforcement Museum
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Virtual Tour of the Museums in Baltimore
- Walters Art Museum
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- American Visionary Art Museum
- Baltimore Museum of Industry
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“Creativity takes courage”
– Henri Matisse
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Photo Credit: Vincent van Gogh / Public domain; Iracaz at English Wikipedia / CC BY-SA (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0); Félix Vallotton / Public domain
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