Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art is a museum in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 60 m. Spook Hill stands 233 m to the north-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Large Monumental Allegory, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Baltimore's Historic Charles Street runs past it. 28 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) is an art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1914, the BMA's collection of 95,000 objects encompasses more than 1,000 works by Henri Matisse anchored by the Cone Collection of modern art, as well as one of the nation's finest holdings of prints, drawings, and photographs. The galleries currently showcase collections of art from Africa; works by established and emerging contemporary artists; European and American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts; ancient Antioch mosaics; art from Asia, and textiles from around the world. The 210,000-square-foot (20,000 m2) museum is distinguished by a neoclassical building designed in the 1920s by American architect John Russell Pope and two landscaped gardens with 20th-century sculpture. The museum is located between Charles Village, to the east, Remington, to the south, Hampden, to the west; and south of the Roland Park neighborhoods, immediately adjacent to the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University, though the museum is an independent institution and not affiliated with the university. The highlight of the museum is the Cone Collection, brought together by Baltimore sisters Claribel and Etta Cone. Accomplished collectors, the sisters amassed a wealth of works by artists including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, nearly all of which were donated to the museum. The museum is also home to 18,000 works of French mid-19th-century art from the George A. Lucas collection, which has been acclaimed by the museum as a cultural "treasure" and "among the greatest single holdings of French art in the country." The BMA is currently led by Dr. Asma Naeem, who was appointed in January 2023. Naeem is the first person of color and the first person raised in Baltimore to lead the museum. Since October 2006, The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum (formerly Walters Art Gallery), have offered free general admission year-round. The museum is also the site of "Gertrude's Chesapeake Kitchen", a popular restaurant owned and operated by chef John Shields.
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Dates from 1914.
Wikidata Q377579, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 60 m
What to expect
- Fee
- No
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- On the Baltimore's Historic Charles Street, National
- 0.6 mi off the Falls Road
- 2.6 mi off the Historic National Road - Maryland, National
- 2.7 mi off the National Historic Seaport
Overlooks nearby
- Elephant Overlook · 1 mi
- Quarry Overlook · 5 mi
- Abandoned Quarry · 5 mi
- Old Transmission Tower · 5 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Large Monumental Allegory: 0.1 mi
- Box-Headed Figure: 0.1 mi
- May 1940: the Destroyed City: 0.1 mi
- Mother and Child II: 0.1 mi
- Fruit: 0.1 mi
- Baltimore Museum of Art Sculpture Gardens: 0.1 mi
- Ryda and Robert H. Levi Sculpture Garden: 0.1 mi
- Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- The Harvest: 0.7 mi
- New Antioch Baptist Church Sacred Garden: 0.7 mi
- Chapin A. Harris Bust: 0.1 mi
- Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument: 0.2 mi
- Remington-Wyman Servicemen Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Hackerman Way: 0.2 mi
- Morton's Rocks: 0.3 mi
- Decker Quadrangle: 0.1 mi
- Wyman Quad: 0.1 mi
- Keyser Quad: 0.2 mi
- Johns Hopkins Beach: 0.2 mi
- Fox Street Park: 0.3 mi
- Homewood Museum: 0.3 mi
- Lovely Lane Museum Library: 0.8 mi
- Baltimore Streetcar Museum: 0.9 mi
- Amaranthine Museum: 1.5 mi
- Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum: 1.5 mi
- Miracle on 34th Street: 0.5 mi
- Santa Rosa Labyrinth: 1.0 mi
- Pearson florist (where Bodie buys flowers): 1.0 mi
- Howard P. Rawlings Conservatory: 1.5 mi
- Shield of Baltimore City: 2.4 mi
- African Journey: 1.3 mi
- Rosemont Park: 3.2 mi
- Creekside at Quarry Lake: 5.2 mi
- Burnside Park: 5.3 mi
- Briarcliff Park: 5.6 mi
- Prospect Hill: 1.4 mi
- Bend Hill: 1.8 mi
- Federal Hill: 3.2 mi
- Luskins Hill: 5.9 mi
- Abell Ridge: 6.0 mi
- Etting Park: Hope Garden: 1.6 mi
- Glen Artney Area: 8.6 mi
- Hilton Shelters: 8.7 mi
- Avalon Area: 8.8 mi
- Pickall Area: 8.9 mi
- Miami Beach: 13.4 mi
- Dog Beach: 17.7 mi
- Herald Harbor Beach 1: 19.4 mi
- Gibson Island Beach: 19.7 mi
- Lake Claire Beach: 21.0 mi
- Balancing Reservoir Spillway: 7.6 mi
- Old Quarry: 7.6 mi
- Loch Raven Cliffs: 9.0 mi
- Quarry (former): 10.0 mi
- Quarry (former): 10.0 mi
- Round Falls: 0.6 mi
- failed mill dam: 3.5 mi
- Cascade Falls: 9.2 mi
- McKeldin Falls: 14.4 mi
- Crises Spring: 1.2 mi
- Mountain Pass Spring: 1.3 mi
- Marble Springs: 7.8 mi
- Hawkins Point Light: 9.4 mi
- Daniels: 10.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Baltimore Museum of Art. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spook Hill | NNW 346° | 233 m | 22.1 mi |
| Ivy Hill | NNW 343° | 200 m | 9.7 mi |
| Oregon Ridge | NNW 342° | 191 m | 11.7 mi |
| Chestnut Hill | WSW 258° | 169 m | 9.7 mi |
| The Bunker | WNW 302° | 157 m | 16.9 mi |
| Abell Ridge | N 353° | 155 m | 6.0 mi |
| Satyr Hill | NE 37° | 151 m | 6.8 mi |
| Cherry Hill | NE 42° | 149 m | 14.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:57 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:05 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 37 | 44 | 55 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 48 | 39 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cylburn, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/114709357
Day trips start here
- Baltimore/Midtown · 1 mi
- Baltimore · 2 mi
- Baltimore/East Baltimore · 2 mi
- Baltimore/Downtown · 3 mi
- Baltimore/Fells Point · 3 mi
- Baltimore/Inner Harbor · 3 mi
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