What’s On

Talks & Lectures

Queering the Collection: Karol Martinez

Wed April 2, 2025 2 to 3 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

Art-making, Thursday Night

First Thursdays: Make and Mingle

Thu April 3, 2025 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Free

historical photo of Walters museum conservators at work

Talks & Lectures

Conservation Window

Fri April 4, 2025 12:30 to 4 p.m.

Free

Museum visitors enjoy an art activity together

Art-making

Drop-in Art Making: Collaborative Collage Quilt

Sat April 5, 2025 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Free

Talks & Lectures

Conservation Window

Sat April 5, 2025 12:30 to 4 p.m.

Free

Art-making

Drop-in Art Making: Collaborative Collage Quilt

Sun April 6, 2025 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Free

Shiva, Indian (Artist), 10th century CE. Gift of John and Berthe Ford, 2004.

Talks & Lectures

Annual Ford Lecture: Shiva, the Mystic Lord and Dancing Liberator

Sun April 6, 2025 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Free

Vase in the Shape of a Duck, Egypt, Alexandria, 3rd-2nd century BCE. Acquired by Henry Walters, 1926

Thursday Night, Tours

Express and Explore Tour: Egypt in Color

Thu April 10, 2025 6 to 6:30 p.m.

Free

Talks & Lectures

Conservation Window

Fri April 11, 2025 12:30 to 4 p.m.

Free

Selections from Art of the Ancient Americas

Ongoing

interior gallery of the Sondheim exhibition in 2024

The Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize Finalists Exhibition

April 19–July 20, 2025

Mors (detail), An Illustrated Manuscript Confessory for the Use of a Deaf Youth, Netherlandish, ca. 1819. Museum purchase, 2023.

If Books Could Kill

December 18, 2024–August 3, 2025

Duncanson, Robert Seldon, River Scene, 1868. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Eddie and Sylvia Brown Challenge Grant, and matching funds, for the acquisition of African American Art, 2012.

Selections from the North American Collection: People and Places

Ongoing

Hackerman House at One West Mount Vernon Place

Ongoing

Objects of Curiosity: What Will We Discover?

Ongoing

René Lalique, Fern Leaves Brooch, 1903-1904. Acquired by Henry Walters, 1904

Distinctive Design: European and North American Decorative Arts

Ongoing

Triptych of faces depicted in artworks throughout Asia

Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World

Ongoing

K’iché (Maya) (Artist), Burian Urn, 600-850 CE. Gift of John Bourne, 2009.

Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano

Opens May 17, 2025

The Walters Art Museum

What’s On

Queering the Collection: Karol Martinez

First Thursdays: Make and Mingle

Conservation Window

Drop-in Art Making: Collaborative Collage Quilt

Conservation Window

Drop-in Art Making: Collaborative Collage Quilt

Annual Ford Lecture: Shiva, the Mystic Lord and Dancing Liberator

Express and Explore Tour: Egypt in Color

Conservation Window

Exhibitions and Installations

Selections from Art of the Ancient Americas

The Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize Finalists Exhibition

If Books Could Kill

Selections from the North American Collection: People and Places

Hackerman House at One West Mount Vernon Place

Objects of Curiosity: What Will We Discover?

Distinctive Design: European and North American Decorative Arts

Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World

Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano

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