Walters Art Museum

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The Walters Art Museum

Museum entrance, North Charles Street, Baltimore
Interactive fullscreen map
Former name	The Walters Art Gallery
Established	1934 (1934)
Location	Mount Vernon, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Coordinates	39°17′47.130″N 76°36′59.396″W / 39.29642500°N 76.61649889°W / 39.29642500; -76.61649889
Type	Art museum
Director	Julia Marciari-Alexander (2016)[1]
Public transit access	at Mt. Vernon station BaltimoreLink routes Green, Pink, Silver, 51, 95, 103, 410, 411 Charm City Circulator Purple Route
Website	thewalters.org

The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, including William Thompson Walters and his son Henry Walters. William Walters began collecting when he moved to Paris as a nominal Confederate loyalist at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, and Henry Walters refined the collection and made arrangements for the construction what ultimately was Walters Art Museum.

Admission to the museum is free.