If you’ve been frequenting this site over the past few weeks — or my social media accounts, you’d recall that I was in Baltimore earlier this month for a family reunion. It was also was the first time that I traveled with my mom as an adult — and her first time that she had been to Charm City.
On our only full day of the trip, we stopped at Miss Shirley‘s for brunch. After brunch, we then went to the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA). Founded over 100 years ago, the Baltimore Museum of Art was founded on the belief that access to art and ideas is integral to a vibrant and healthy civic life. That belief is at the heart of the museum — and it remains their core value.
As a museum, the BMA has long focused on acquiring art of the present moment, while maintaining and deepening a historic collection consistently made relevant through vigorous development and reinterpretation in all collecting areas. As a result, the BMA has assembled and presented one of the most important collections of 18th-20th Century art in the US.
We wound up spending a couple of hours in the museum’s impressive The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century exhibit, we wound up exploring some of the other rooms, including their collection of Impressionists, and more. (I love the Impressionists — particularly, Van Gogh. And admittedly, it was a thrill to see my cousin Alicia see a Van Gogh in person, when she hadn’t seen one before.)
As always some photos are below.
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