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Walters Art Museum

The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the neighborhood of , . 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.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, US
  • Also known as: “The Walters Art Museum” and “Walters Art Gallery”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include George Peabody Library and Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Library
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The is a library connected to the Johns Hopkins University, focused on research into the 19th century. It was formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of music in the City of Baltimore, and is located on the Peabody campus at in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere historic cultural neighborhood north of downtown , . is situated 380 feet northeast of Walters Art Museum.

Church
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The , also called the Baltimore Basilica, is a Catholic cathedral in . is situated 770 feet south of Walters Art Museum.

Monument
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The is the centerpiece of intersecting Mount Vernon Place and Washington Place, an urban square in the neighborhood north of downtown Baltimore, . It was the first major to honor George Washington. is situated 370 feet north of Walters Art Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mount Vernon and Chinatown.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, located immediately north of the city's . It is named for George Washington's estate in , as the site of the city's .

Neighborhood
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The U.S. city of , is home to a small . Historically, Baltimore had at least two districts that were called "Chinatown" where the first one existed on the 200 block of Marion Street during the 1880s.

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is 's central business district and seat of the city government. While home to some iconic Baltimore architecture, and the city's economic heart, visitors, and even locals, tend to keep their distance from this often seedy and decidedly unloved city center, unless they are going to the Baltimore Arena, the Hippodrome Theatre, or visiting Poe's grave at Westminster Hall.

Walters Art Museum

Latitude
39.29657° or 39° 17′ 48″ north
Longitude
-76.61611° or 76° 36′ 58″ west
Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)
Open location code
87F579WM+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4590173181
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
4372697
Wiki­data ID
Q210081
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Walters Art Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف والترز للفنون”
  • Arabic: “متحف والترز”
  • Armenian: “Ուոլթերսի արվեստի թանգարան”
  • Bashkir: “Уолтерс художество музейы”
  • Belarusian: “Мастацкі музей Уолтэрса”
  • Belarusian: “Мастацкі музэй Ўолтэрза”
  • Catalan: “Museu d’Art Walters”
  • Catalan: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Catalan: “Walters Arts Museum”
  • Chinese: “沃尔特斯美术馆”
  • Chinese: “沃尔特斯艺术博物馆”
  • Chinese: “沃尔特艺术博物馆”
  • Chinese: “沃爾斯藝術博物館”
  • Chinese: “沃爾特斯美術館”
  • Chinese: “沃爾特斯藝術博物館”
  • Chinese: “沃爾特藝術博物館”
  • Chinese: “沃特斯艺术博物馆”
  • Chinese: “沃特斯藝術博物館”
  • Chinese: “瓦爾特斯美術館”
  • Chinese: “華爾特斯美術館”
  • Chinese: “華特斯美術館”
  • Chinese: “華特斯藝術博物館”
  • Czech: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Czech: “Waltersovo muzeum umění”
  • Danish: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Dutch: “The Walters Art Gallery”
  • Dutch: “Walters Art Gallery”
  • Dutch: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف والترز”
  • Esperanto: “Walters Art Museum”
  • French: “Musée d’Art Walters”
  • French: “Walters Art Gallery”
  • French: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Georgian: “უოლტერსის ხელოვნების მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Walters Art Gallery”
  • German: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο τέχνης Ουόλτερς”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון וולטרס לאמנות”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Seni Walters”
  • Italian: “Walters Art Gallery”
  • Italian: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Japanese: “ウォルターズ美術館”
  • Korean: “월터스 미술관”
  • Macedonian: “Волтерсов ликовен музеј”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Persian: “موزه هنر والترز”
  • Persian: “موزه هنری والترز”
  • Polish: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de Arte Walters”
  • Portuguese: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Pushto: “والټر موزيم”
  • Pushto: “والټرز میوزیم”
  • Russian: “Художественный музей Уолтерс”
  • Russian: “Художественный музей Уолтерса”
  • Slovenian: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Spanish: “Museo Walters”
  • Spanish: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Swedish: “Walters Art Museum”
  • Turkish: “Walters Sanat Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Художній музей Волтерс”

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