Baltimore is full of galleries and museums. Rather than list them all here, we've selected a few and recommend that you check in the City Paper or the Baltimore Sun for a more complete list. Also go to the Baltimore Collegetown Web site at www.baltimorecollegetown.org. Both The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art are free to the public.
Galleries
Area 405
410.528.2101
www.area405.com
405 E. Oliver Street
Station North
Alternative exhibition space that produces, presents, and promotes arts and cultural programming.
Baltimore Clayworks
410.578.1919
www.baltimoreclayworks.org
5707 Smith Avenue
Mount Washington
Features functional and sculptural ceramics, traveling exhibitions by national and international artists, and work by Clayworks' resident artists and students.
C. Grimaldis Gallery
410.539.1080
523 N. Charles Street
Mount Vernon
One of the city's more distinguished galleries.
Craig Flinner Gallery
410.727.1863
505 N. Charles Street
Mount Vernon
Antique prints, maps, and vintage French posters. Custom framing available.
Creative Alliance at the Patterson
410.276.1651
www.creativealliance.org
3134 Eastern Avenue
Highlandtown
Sponsors exhibitions, lectures, performances, and community-based art programs.
Galerie Francoise et Ses Freres
410.523.2787
3500 Parkdale Avenue
Woodberry
A gallery showing a variety of artists' work.
Gallery 44
410.465.5200
9469 Baltimore National Pike
Ellicott City
Goya-Girl Press
410.366.2001
www.goyagirl.com
3000 Chestnut Avenue in the Mill Center, Studio 214
Hampden
A full-service printmaking atelier and contemporary art gallery. Printers collaborate with artists to create intaglio and lithographs.
Load of Fun Gallery
www.loadoffun.net
120 West North Avenue
Station North
New gallery and studio space directly across from the Studio Center. Includes a photo dark room.
Maryland Art Place (MAP)
410.962.8565
www.mdartplace.org
8 Market Place, Power Plant Live! Ste. 100
Downtown
Shows the work of emerging regional artists and performers. Sponsoring the 14 Karat Cabaret at their old location, 218 W. Saratoga Street.
Minas Gallery
410.732.4258
815 W. 36th Street
Hampden
Has art exhibitions and poetry readings. A great vintage boutique that sells Levi's for $14 and has a wonderful gallery on the second floor with monthly poetry readings.
Mission Space
410.752.8950
www.missionmedia.net
338 N. Charles Street
Mount Vernon
Voted best multimedia facility by Baltimore magazine; subsite, missiontix.com, is a great source for local events and theater tickets.
Montage Gallery
410.725.1125
925 S. Charles Street
Federal Hill
Mud and Metal
410.467.8698
www.mudandmetal.com
1121 W. 36th Street
Hampden
A Hampden gallery featuring crafts ñ including jewelry, housewares, ceramics, and more. Great place for unique gifts.
Schiavone Fine Art
410.534.2212
www.schiavoneedward.com
244 Highland Avenue
Highlandtown
Gallery with wonderful art, wonderful community, great food at openings
School 33 Art Center
410.396.4641
www.school33.org
1427 Light Street
Federal Hill
Features emerging and alternative art and artists.
Spur Propaganda Gallery
410.235.7803
www.spurdesign.com/gallery_home.html
3504 Ash Street
Hampden
Baltimore's only public space solely devoted to showing the work of illustrators, graphic designers, cartoonists, and commercial photographers.
Westnorth Studio
410.962.1475
www.westnorthstudio.com
106 W. North Avenue
Station North
Exhibits emerging and established visual and performing national and international artists. All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Museums
American Visionary Art Museum
410.244.1900
www.avam.org
800 Key Highway
Inner Harbor
Nation's only museum devoted to the work of untrained "outsider" artists. Definitely worth a visit. $7 with student ID.
B&O Railroad Museum
410.752.4287
www.borail.org
901 W. Pratt Street
Downtown
Over 150 locomotives and rolling stock on a 40-acre property.
Baltimore Maritime Museum
410.396.3453
www.baltomaritimemuseum.org
Piers 3 & 5, Inner Harbor
802 South Caroline Street
Inner Harbor
Embrace your inner salty dog and check out the array of historic battleships maintained in the Inner Harbor.
Baltimore Museum of Art
410.573.7300
www.artbma.org
10 Art Museum Drive
Charles Village
Maryland's largest museum, noted for its modern collection, American wing, and sculpture garden. Open Wednesday–Sunday, free.
Baltimore Museum of Industry
410.727.4808
www.thebmi.org
1415 Key Highway
Inner Harbor
$6 with student ID. Lots of hands-on exhibitions about Baltimore's industrial history. (Take Light Rail to the harbor, then catch the water taxi.)
Baltimore's Black American Museum
410.243.9600
1765-69 Carswell Street
Waverly
Contemporary and third-world artists, artifacts, and memorabilia.
The Contemporary Museum
410.783.5720
www.contemporary.org
100 W. Centre Street
Mount Vernon
A museum dedicated to creating education programs and cultural experiences that reach an exceptionally wide range of constituents. Suggested donation of $3 for students.
Evergreen Museum
410.516.0341
www.jhu.edu/evrgreen/
4545 North Charles Street
Guilford
1850s Italianate mansion with post-Impressionist paintings, rare books, Tiffany glass, Japanese netsuke, and Baltimore's only private theater.
Great Blacks in Wax Museum
410.563.3404
www.greatblacksinwax.org
1601-03 East North Avenue
Clifton Park
Features 100 life-size, life-like wax figures highlighting historical and contemporary personalities of African ancestry.
Jewish Museum of Maryland
410.732.6400
www.jewishmuseummd.org
15 Lloyd Street
Downtown
One of the country's leading centers for exhibits about Jewish heritage and culture.
Living Classrooms
410.685.0295
www.livingclassrooms.org
802 South Caroline Street
Harbor East/Fells Point
This educational foundation runs interesting hands-on, outdoor youth programs, many involving the Chesapeake Bay. The foundation also manages Baltimore's National Historic Seaport and Maritime Museum.
Maryland Historical Society
410.685.3750
www.mdhs.org
201 W. Monument Street
Mount Vernon
The original manuscript of the "Star Spangled Banner" is housed here, along with decorative arts and a large 19th-century American silver collection. Admission $6 with student ID.
National Museum of Dentistry
410.706.0600
www.dentalmuseum.org
31 S. Greene Street
Downtown
Collections of artifacts and entertaining, educational exhibitions representing a riveting historical mix of gear, gadgets, and lore associated with dentistry and teeth.
NSS Constellation Museum
410.539.1797
www.constellation.org
Pier 1, Inner Harbor
Downtown
Dating from 1853, Constellation was the last all-sail warship designed by the U.S. Navy.
Poe House
410.396.7932
203 North Amity Street
West Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe lived here for three years.
Port Discovery
410.727.8120
www.portdiscovery.org
35 Market Place
Inner Harbor
Voted one of the Top 5 Children's Museums in the U.S.
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture
443.263.1800
www.africanamericanculture.org
801 E. Fayette Street
Downtown
The largest African American museum on the East Coast with a mission to be the premier resource of information and inspiration about the lives of African American Marylanders; $6 with student ID.
Shot Tower
410.396.5894
830 W. Pratt Street
Downtown
A 234-foot brick tower built with one million woodfired bricks in 1828 for the production of lead shot.
Streetcar Museum
410.547.0264
www.baltimorestreetcar.org
1901 Falls Road
Station North
Ride the rails along the Jones Falls in antique Baltimore streetcars; open Saturdays (June-Oct.) and Sundays year-round.
US Lacrosse Museum
410.235.6882
www.lacrosse.org/museum
113 W. University Parkway (Johns Hopkins University campus)
Charles Village
A museum for memorabilia, artifacts, equipment, uniforms, written material, and documents relating to the sport of lacrosse.
Walters Art Museum
410.547.9000
www.thewalters.org
600 N. Charles Street
Mount Vernon
Wonderful ancient, medieval, and 19th century painting collections. Hackerman House, in a beautifully restored home adjacent to the museum, houses the Walters' Asian art collection. Free.
Washington Monument and Museum
410.396.1049
Charles & Monument Streets
Mount Vernon
You should definitely go up to the top of it - offers a great view of the city; $1 suggested donation.
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