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Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore Museum of Art

The Baltimore Art Museum is considered one of the country’s centers for modern art. It is home to the renowned Cone Collection, an extensive accumulation of art pieces and artifacts including works of art greats Matisse and Picasso donated by Baltimore natives Claribel and Etta Cone. Aside from the pieces from the Cone sisters, BMA also proudly displays on its halls works of European masters of modern art such as Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, Juan Gris, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, Andre Masson, Matta, Yves Tanguy, Alberto Giacometti, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Max Pechstein. Furthermore, the museum boasts of its extensive collection of art from Africa, American contemporary art, ancient Antioch mosaics, art from Asia, textiles from around the world, and works of established and emerging modern artists. You and your group can feast your senses by touring BMA’s galleries of contemporary art from different corners of the globe.

Interesting Facts About the Baltimore Museum of Art
  • The 210,000-square-foot (20,000 m2) museum is distinguished by a neoclassical building designed in the 1920s by renowned American architect John Russell Pope and two landscaped gardens with 20th-century sculpture.
  • The museum was founded in 1904 with one single painting  William Sergeant Kendall’s Mischief, which was donated by Dr. A.R.L. Dohme, the head of the city’s congress at that time.
  • The BMA was one of the first institutions in the United States to obtain a collection of pieces of African art.
  • It contains more than 2,000 objects whose sources range from ancient Egypt to contemporary Zimbabwe, and includes works from many other cultures, including Bamana, Yoruba, Kuba, Ndebele.