- American Visionary Art Museum
- Located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, the`` museum displays "outsider" works of art.`` These artists have received no formal training,`` yet one has created a scale model of the`` Lusitania out of toothpicks. Admission $4-6. ```` Open Sunday, Tuesday,`` Wednesday and Thursday`` 10am to 8pm. Open Friday
800 Key Highway`` Baltimore MD
`` Phone: 410.244.1900
- 1077 clicks since 15-Jul-1998
- Art Museum of the Americas
- The Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States was established in 1976 by resolution of the OAS Permanent Council in tribute to the two-hundredth anniversary of the independence of the United States, host country of the OAS.The historic building housing the Museum was designed by noted architect Paul Cret in 1912 as the residence for the Secretaries General of the Organization of American States. It is Spanish colonial in style with white walls, iron grilles, a red tiled roof and a loggia decorated with richly colored tiles in patterns modeled after Aztec and Inca legends. Today as a Museum, the building provides a warm and intimate atmosphere to enjoy art.
- 1047 clicks since 24-Oct-2001
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- 1050 Independence Ave.Containing over 1000 works of Asian art, the`` Sackler is renown for its Chinese Bronzes and`` jades. In 1987, the gallery added the Vever`` collection; a series of Islamic arts from the`` 11th to the 19th century.`` SW.`` Washington, DC 20560 `` Telephone: 202.357.2700 ```` Open Daily 10am to 5:30pm`` (Open Thursdays until 8pm`` in summer.)
- 1174 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Arts and Industries Building
- 900 Jefferson Dr SW`` Washington DC 20560 `` Phone: 202-357-2700```` Open Daily 10am to 5:30pm``This building houses changing exhibitions and the ``children's performing arts facility, Discovery Theater. The original U.S. National Museum,`` this architectural wonder once held many`` specimens (such as the Spirit of St. Louis) that`` are now on display in other Smithsonian`` museums.
- 785 clicks since 15-Jul-1998
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- Art Museum Drive (Off Charles Street above 31st Street)``Baltimore, MD Phone: 410.396.7100 ``Open Wednesday through Friday 10am to 4pm. Saturday and Sunday 11am``to 6pm Centered around the Cone Collection which``revolves around impressionist masterpieces,``the BMA boasts more than 100,000 pieces of art. Sixteen galleries have been added for post-1945 modern art. Admission range $1.50 to 5.50.
- 1038 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Baltimore Streetcar Museum, Inc.
- 1901 Falls Road ``P.O. Box 4881``Baltimore, Maryland 21211 INFORMATION LINE: 410-547-0264 ``Open Year round - Sunday Noon to 5PM ``Open Saturdays (June through October)Noon - 5PM
- 403 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Baltimore Tattoo Museum
- ocated on the corner of Eastern Avenue and Bond Street in the Fells Point area of Baltimore City, we are both a full service tattoo/piercing shop and a museum of all things tattoo. Our address is 1534 Eastern Ave. - Baltimore, MD...phone number - 410.522.5800
- 694 clicks since 2-Oct-2000
- Dennis and Phillip Ratner Museum
- The Dennis and Phillip Ratner Museum has been established with one purpose in mind: to foster love of the Bible through the graphic arts. The Museum is a walk through``the Hebrew Bible via visual arts. The Museum is a non-profit foundation open to the public that hopefully will serve as a prototype for other communities globally.
``10001 Old Georgetown Road
``Bethesda, MD 20814
``Tel: 301-897-1518
- 559 clicks since 29-Mar-1999
- Hillwood Museum and Gardens
- Hillwood offers a variety of programs related to the museum’s art and horticulture collections. Please call toll free 1/877-HILLWOOD or 202/686-5807 for further information and to register.
- 670 clicks since 19-Dec-2001
- Hirshhorn Museum And Sculpture Garden
- 7th St. and Independence`` Ave. SW`` Washington, DC 20560```` Phone: 202.357.2700 ```` Open Daily ``A beautifully designed circular building with a`` fountain of concentric circles, the Hirshorn is`` based upon the extensive 11,000-piece modern`` art collection of Joseph Hirshhorn.
- 2296 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Janus Museum
- Photographs, paintings and an online journal from a local virtual museum.
- 681 clicks since 20-Oct-1998
- MOCA DC, Museum of Contemporary Art
- Grassroots alternative artspace devoted to supporting contemporary art from regional, national and international across a diverse range of mediums and disciplines.
Monthly openings on 3rd Friday of the month. Artist member shows give new and unknown artists an opportunity to exhibit their art, held once or twice yearly.
- 1791 clicks since 10-Feb-2003
- Museum Shop International
- Our "On-Line" Museum Bookstore and International Craft Boutique provides`` educational materials to everyone. ``Washington, DC 20009 `` Tel: 202/462-6176`` Fax: 202/462-2380`` Email: museplan@erols.com
- 483 clicks since 7-Aug-1998
- National Gallery Of Art
- Scattered throughout the meandering hallways`` and wings and exhibit rooms of the National`` Gallery's West Wing is a display of art`` stretching from the third century to present`` times - a display over 90,000 pieces strong.
4th St. & Constitution Ave.`` NW`` Washington, DC 20565
`` Phone: 202.842.6353`` Fax: 202.682.0660
- 3554 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- 1250 New York Avenue NW`` Washington DC `` Phone: 202.783.5000``Representing more than 500 women from`` nearly 30 countries, this museum holds 2,000`` of the world's most important works of art by`` women. ```` Open Monday through`` Saturday 10am to 5pm.`` Sunday noon to 5pm.
- 1714 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Review of National Gallery of Art (East Building)
- Critical review of and information about the National Gallery of Art's East Building, in Washington, DC.
- 1129 clicks since 21-Apr-1999
- Review of the National Gallery of Art (West Building)
- Critical review of and information about the National Gallery of Art's West Building, in Washington, DC.
- 804 clicks since 21-Apr-1999
- Review of Van Gogh's Van Goghs at the National Gallery of Art
- Critical review and information about the 1998 exhibition Van Gogh's Van Goghs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
- 1429 clicks since 21-Apr-1999
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum collection began with gifts of art donated ``to the federal government in 1829 and has evolved into the world's most ``important American art holdings with approximately 39,000 paintings, sculptures, ``prints and drawings, photographs, folk art and contemporary crafts.``
``For more information on exhibitions and programs at the Smithsonian American ``Art Museum, visit our award-winning Web site at AmericanArt.si.edu, write ``us at info@saam.si.edu, or call (202) 275-1594. `` ``While the three-year renovation ``of the museum's main building-the Old Patent Office-continues, American ``Art offers a full program of exhibitions at its Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania ``Avenue at 17th Street N.W.), which is dedicated to exhibiting American crafts ``from the 19th to the 21st century. Fore more information about Renwick ``Gallery activities, call (202) 357-2700.
- 1192 clicks since 18-Oct-2001
- The Corcoran Gallery
- 17th and New York AvenueWith over 14,000 pieces of European and`` American art, The Corcoran is the largest`` non-Federal museum in Washington DC.`` The Corcoran also has rotating`` world-class exhibitions year round. Suggested`` contribution is $3. ```` NW`` Washington, DC `` Phone: 202.639.1700 ```` Open Wednesday through`` Monday 10am to 5pm.`` Closed Tuesdays,`` Thanksgiving, Christmas,`` and New Years.
- 3034 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
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