Walters Art Museum, Art museum in Mount Vernon, Baltimore, US.
The Walters Art Museum is an art museum in Mount Vernon, Baltimore, displaying over 36,000 artworks from seven millennia. The collection spreads across a palazzo-style building and a brutalist center, both connected.
William Walters began collecting artworks in Paris during the American Civil War. His son Henry greatly expanded the holdings and commissioned the museum building, which was later given to the public.
The building pairs early 20th-century Italian palazzo forms with a later brutalist wing. Visitors walk through rooms holding Egyptian burial goods, medieval gospel books, and French salon paintings from the era of Napoleon III.
The museum sits at 600 North Charles Street and grants free entry Wednesday through Sunday. Parking options exist on Cathedral Street, a short walk from the entrance.
The institution released roughly 20,000 images of its collections under a Creative Commons license in 2012. Since then, researchers and cultural workers worldwide can access these digital resources at no cost.
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