When it’s THIS HOT OUTSIDE, museuming has never looked so appealing! That’s what I found last week when I visited the Baltimore Museum of Art, which was easy and fun, I can’t remember why it’s taken me so long to see it – decades! Some details:
- It’s surprisingly FREE! The on-site parking costs $12/day; there may be free parking in the neighborhood (I used the museum’s lot).
- Mid-day on a recent Thursday it took under 50 minutes to drive there from Greenbelt and back.
- The hours are Wednesday–Sunday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Thursday from 10 a.m.–9 p.m.
- There’s a lovely and highly recommended on-site restaurant – that I wish I could report on. It was full so my friend and I opted for the Laurel Panera Bread on the way home.
- It’s not stuffy. Some of the displays remind me of the super-fun Visionary Art Museum.
- Of special interest for Greenbelters, there’s artwork by WPA artists!
Some examples:
- There’s lots of cool things in the museum’s gift shop.
- Its all-gender restrooms are named for beloved Baltimorean John Waters. (Other Baltimore-raised creatives include Philip Glass and David Byrne.)
It was an outstanding sculpture garden! I posted more photos of it here on my garden blog.
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