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Museum visitors enjoying the cafe

Art-making, Thursday Night

First Thursdays: Make and Mingle

Thu May 1, 2025 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

historical photo of Walters museum conservators at work

Talks & Lectures

Conservation Window

Fri May 2, 2025 12:30 to 4 p.m.

Free

Art-making

Drop-in Art Making: Community Garden

Sat May 3, 2025 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

historical photo of Walters museum conservators at work

Talks & Lectures

Conservation Window

Sat May 3, 2025 12:30 to 4 p.m.

Free

Art-making

Drop-in Art Making: Community Garden

Sun May 4, 2025 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

interior gallery of the Sondheim exhibition in 2024

Talks & Lectures, Thursday Night

Sondheim 2025 Art Prize Finalists: Artist Talks

Thu May 8, 2025 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

historical photo of Walters museum conservators at work

Talks & Lectures

Conservation Window

Fri May 9, 2025 12:30 to 4 p.m.

Free

Double-Whistle Vessel with Sea Birds, Peru, 900-1100. Anonymous gift, 2009, acc. no. 48.2826

Celebrations

Expanding on Latin American Art: A Screening, Conversation, and Musical Experience

Fri May 9, 2025 6 to 8 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

Art-making

Drop-in Art Making: Community Garden

Sat May 10, 2025 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

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Exhibitions and Installations

Dish with Bean Imagery 2009.20.110

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

Massie, Herbert, Reflections of Sybby Grant, 2018. Museum purchase, 2023.

Herbert Massie

January 8, 2023–November 30, 2025

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Hackerman House at One West Mount Vernon Place

Ongoing

vases

Objects of Curiosity: What Will We Discover?

Ongoing

Flanders, Prayer Book, late 15th-century. Acquired by Henry Walters.

Paws on Parchment

Opens August 6, 2025

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

Mann, Katherine Tzu-Lan, The Pocket, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann

April 1, 2025–September 24, 2026

Mercedes, Stephanie, We Were Treated Like Numbers Rather Than Stars, 2025. On loan from the artist.

Stephanie Mercedes

March 6, 2025–February 28, 2027

Wiley, Kehinde, Saint Amelie, 2014.

Kehinde Wiley

April 1, 2025–April 19, 2029

Milad, Jackie, Abracadabra (Abuelita’s Bowl), 2025. Loan from the artist. Milad, Jackie, Ya Habibti, Ta’ala, 2025. Loan from the artist.

Jackie Milad

April 1, 2025–April 30, 2030

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

Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano

Opens May 17, 2025

Lugo, Roberto, Frederick Douglass Food Stamp Jar, 2018. Museum purchase with funds provided by Constance R. Caplan, 2018.

Roberto Lugo

April 1, 2025–April 15, 2035

Makonnen, Tsedaye, Sacred :: የተቀደሰ :: Yetekedse, 2025. Museum purchase, 2024.

Tsedaye Makonnen

April 1, 2025–April 1, 2036

Adili, Golnar, Dust of Sorrow (Ghobar é Gham), 2019. Courtesy of Golnar Adili.

Golnar Adili

April 1, 2025–April 1, 2051

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