Walters Art Museum
About Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, including William Thompson Walters and his son Henry Walters. William Walters began collecting when he moved to Paris as a nominal Confederate loyalist at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, and Henry Walters refined the collection and made arrangements for the construction what ultimately was Walters Art Museum.
Admission to the museum is free.
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- Founded
- 1934
- Architect
- William Adams Delano
Photos of Walters Art Museum
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01BaltimoreDylan k · CC BY-SA 3.0
02Inside Walters Art MuseumAlfred Jacob Miller · Public domain
03Jessye Norman- In Conversation with Tom HallWalters Art Museum · CC BY-SA 2.0
04Jessye Norman- In Conversation with Tom HallWalters Art Museum · CC BY-SA 2.0
05Elvis sarcophagus at Walters Art GalleryBen Schumin from Montgomery Village, Maryland, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
06Antoine-Louis Barye - Python Crushing a Gnu - WaltersAntoine-Louis Barye · Public domain
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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within a mile of Walters Art Museum; the closest, Maryland Center for History and Culture, is practically next door.
