Baltimore:

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County 410.455.2270

The works of the university easily rivals other area gallery collections, which charge admission. Most exhibits feature twentieth-century photography and include nationally renown fine art photographers.

American Visionary Art Museum 410.244.1900

Visionary Art refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself.

Baltimore Museum of Art 410.396.7100

French post-impressionists; painting, sculpture Renaissance to present; Oriental, Pre-Columbian, American Indian, African, Oceanic American decorative arts.

Contemporary Museum 410.783.5720

Multimedia drives the exhibits with video, music, photography, painting, and sculpture.

Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art 410.225.2300

Contemporary painting, drawing, prints, sculpture, graphics, installations, photography.

Maryland Historical Society 410.685.3750

Collection of more than 7.5 million artifacts and manuscripts that preserve and interpret the history of the state, its people, and the objects they created and used.

School 33 Art Center 410.396.4641

The Gallery Exhibition Program presents 18 shows each year. The Studio Artist Program provides nine studios to artists at a subsidized rate.

Walters Art Museum 410.547.9000

Antiquity through 19th century: decorative arts, painting, sculpture, arms and armor, jewelry, ceramics, manuscripts.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum 212.849.8400

The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design. The Museum believes that design shapes our objects, environments, and communications, making them more desirable, functional, and accessible.

Corcoran Gallery of Art 888.CORCORAN

An extensive collection of American and European masterworks (Renaissance through Impressionism), contemporary art, photography and studios the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 202.357.2700

The National Museum of Asian Art for the United States. Changing exhibitions of Asian art from ancient times to the present. Permanent collection includes art from China, South and Southeast Asia, ancient and Islamic Iran, and Japan. Chinese jades and bronzes, ancient Iranian silver, Indian jewelry, Islamic paintings, Chinese scrolls, Korean ceramics, Persian manuscripts, Japanese screens, and Buddhist sculpture. Also 19th- and early-20th-century American art, works by James McNeill Whistler.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 202.357.2700

Contemporary art: 19th- to 20th- century European and American painting and sculpture.

National Gallery of Art 202.737.4215

European painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, 13th-20th centuries;  American painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, and photographs, 18th-20th centuries.

National Museum of African Art 202.357.4600

Dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and study of African art.  Permanent collection of 100 masterworks; permanent installations of royal Benin art, utilitarian objects, and Central African pottery.

National Museum of the American Indian 301.238.6624

The holdings of the Heye Foundation were transferred to the Smithsonian Institution.
The collection spans 10,000 years of Native heritage.

National Museum of Women in the Arts 202.783.5000

Permanent collection comprises more than 1200 works by over 400 women artists from 28 countries, dating from the Renaissance to the present and executed in a variety of media.

National Portrait Gallery 202.357.2700

Portraits of Americans who have made a significant contribution to the historical, intellectual, political and cultural life of the United States. The museum will be closed to the public until the renovation is complete in fall of 2004.

Renwick Gallery 202.357.2700

American contemporary crafts and decorative arts.

Smithsonian American Art Museum 202.275.1500

Home of the largest collection of American art in the world. Its holdings (over 37,500 works) represent the most inclusive collection of American art of any general museum today, reflecting the nation's ethnic, geographic, cultural, and religious diversity. Currently closed for renovation.