Currently, it occupies a 3-story, 10,000-square foot building of the classic revival style. Prior to that, beginning in 1876, it occupied a downtown location and then another temporary location.

The museum opened in its present location in 1929. A coat/bag/umbrella check room is available, as is a gift shop and a full-service restaurant (called Gertrude’s). A small (paid) parking lot is onsite, with additional public lots and street parking available. The museum is located just outside of downtown Baltimore, adjacent to the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University (between the Charles Village, Remington, Hampden, and Roland Park neighborhoods). (The Walters Art Museum also offers free admission from the same grant.) You may have to pay a fee to view rotating special exhibitions, however. General admission is free because of a grant given by several foundations in conjunction with Baltimore city and county. The museum is open from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm on Wednesday through Sunday (closed Monday and Tuesday). 'I have a lot of art that would work in a bathroom.My spouse and I visited the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) on a Saturday afternoon in early June 2018.

I also have George Stoll’s chiffon toilet paper. 'There’s ’Wedged Lump’ by Mike Kelley that looks exactly like a giant turd. “I have a piece by Tony Tasset called ‘I peed in my pants,'' Waters said. The filmmaker began to mentally run through his collection and tick off the possibilities: The John Waters Restrooms, he thinks, might be a logical choice. Waters is already having fun imagining which pieces will be on view - and in which parts of the museum. The gift agreement also stipulates that an inaugural exhibition of Waters’ collection will be held by the end of 2025, and that five artworks, including one created by Waters, will be prominently displayed in the museum at all times. Waters had personal relationships with many of the artists he collected, and the meticulous files he assembled on the artworks will be part of the bequest. I wanted the art that I’ve been collecting for 50 years to go to the place that taught me from the very beginning how powerful and how exciting art is and how much trouble it can cause.” “But I’m not going to penalize the Baltimore museum. “I was against the deaccessioning,” he said, using the art world parlance for selling works owned by a museum. Though Waters sided with opponents of the proposed sale, the public dispute didn’t dissuade him from going ahead with his gift.

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