Current Exhibitions
Explore a variety of exhibitions featuring works of art from the Walters' permanent collection and from museums throughout the world.
- Great Illustrations: Drawings and Books from The Walters’ Collection
- July 31, 2010 - October 10, 2010
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM - This focus show unearths treasures of illustration hidden in the permanent collection of the Walters Art Museum. Featuring preparatory drawings for Gustave Doré’s Bible and Paul Gavarni’s lively sketches of the London underworld, the exhibition explores the variety of ways in which 19th-century artists approached the art of illustration.
- Checkmate! Medieval People at Play
- July 17, 2010 - October 10, 2010
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM - Neither stodgy nor perpetually pious, medieval people found time for amusement in the margins of their lives and their manuscripts. From peasant boys shirking their winter duties in order to lob snowballs at each other to monkeys gleefully dancing to "Ring around the Rosie," their antics have come down to us in art.
- Bearing Witness: Work by Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry
- May 08, 2010 - August 01, 2010
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM - Bearing Witness is a multi-venue survey of over ten years of work by the artist duo Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry. 8 larger-than-life mother-and-child portraits painted on silk are suspended from the ceiling in the Walters lobby.
- 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.
