Current Exhibitions
Explore a variety of exhibitions featuring works of art from the Walters' permanent collection and from museums throughout the world.
- Japanese Cloisonné Enamels from the Stephen W. Fisher Collection
- February 14, 2010 - June 13, 2010
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM - This exhibition celebrates the beauty and technical perfection of cloisonné enamels from Japan. The Stephen W. Fisher collection of Japanese cloisonné enamels is one of the finest in the world. Comprised largely of pieces created during Japan's "golden age" of decorative art production, this collection features many intricately adorned vases, boxes, and trays worked in gold, silver, and dazzling colored enamels.
- Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics
- January 23, 2010 - April 11, 2010
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM - This collaboration between the Walters Art Museum and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind-Brain Institute at The Johns Hopkins University is a pioneering study in neuroesthetics, a new approach to the neural basis of the aesthetic experience.
Beauty and the Brain is both an exhibition and an experiment.
- Palace of Wonders: Renaissance & Baroque Galleries
- October 14, 2009 - October 14, 2020
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM - The installations presents a re-creation of a Collection of Art and Wonders as it might have been assembled by a 17th-century nobleman in the Southern Netherlands: his entry hall of arms and armor, a private study and a Chamber of Wonders encompassing curiosities of nature and human creativity.
- Art of the Ancient Americas
- October 14, 2009 - October 14, 2012
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM - All of the major civilizations of Mesoamerica are featured in this installation, including the Olmec, Maya and Teotihuacan. The exhibition focuses on small sculpture from these cultures' enigmatic figures and animals that probably served a ritual function.
- Mummified
- November 15, 2008 - November 08, 2010
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM - Discover the ancient secrets of the Walters' mummy, as revealed through the techniques of virtual autopsy. This focus show will feature approximately 20 ancient Egyptian objects depicting images of mummified people, animals, and deities. A section of the installation will focus on the "Mummimania" of the 17th-20th centuries.
