Art Directory Museums United States  

http://www.bowers.org

2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706 USA
Tuesday-Sunday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Open late the fourth Thursday of every month until 8:00 pm
Closed on Mondays
Admissions: General Admission (Price does NOT include 'Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of Chna’s First Emperor') Adults $12.00 / Seniors (age 62 or older) and Students $9.00
Starting Sunday, October 5, 2008, visitors of the Bowers Museum can enjoy free access to the museum and all activities on the first Sunday of every month.

The Museum’s collections is one of the largest and most diverse collections in the United States, offering non-Western art, Egyptian art; ancient Middle Eastern material; European paintings and sculpture; American paintings; representative drawings, prints, and photographs; contemporary art; decorative arts, including twenty-six period rooms; arts of China, Korean, Japan, and South and Southeast Asia; Islamic art; indigenous arts of North, Central, and South America; major objects from the Pacific Islands; and one of the largest and a finest collections of African art
Photo: Front Entrance Pavilion and Public Plaza Designed by Polshek Partnership Architects
Photo by Richard Barnes
for Polshek Partnership Architects

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org

200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052 USA
Hours: Wednesday–Friday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Suggested Contribution: $8; Students with Valid ID: $4; Adults 65 and over: $4

The Museum, home of the Miotte Foundation, is committed to an exploration of "art within a context" with a program of exhibitions which reflect contemporary human experience across a broad spectrum of cultural, social, environmental and geographical contexts. The Museum seeks to present important but relatively unexplored dimensions of 20th and 21st Century art, particularly focusing on artists that have been less exposed in the United States than in their home countries.

http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org/

556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011 USA
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11 to 6 pm / Thursday Noon to 8pm
Closed Sunday and Monday
Admission: adults $6 / concessions $3

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a not-for-profit institution dedicated to presenting the art of our time to the public. As a non-collecting museum, its mission is to provide a forum for art with an emphasis on the visual arts of the present and recent past; to document new directions in art through changing exhibitions and publications; to engage the public in a lively dialogue with today’s art; and to encourage a greater understanding of contemporary art through education programs.

http://www.camh.org/index.php

5216 Montrose Blvd. Houston, Texas USA
Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 am – 5 pm / Thursday 10 am – 9 pm / Sunday 12 pm – 5 pm
Closed on Monday
Admission Free

El Museo del Barrio was founded in 1969 by artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz with the support of a group of Puerto Rican educators, artists, parents and community activists in East Harlem’s Spanish-speaking El Barrio. Since then, El Museo del Barrio has evolved into New York’s leading Latino cultural institution, having expanded its mission to represent the diversity of art and culture in all of the Caribbean and Latin America.

http://www.elmuseo.org/

1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
New York, NY 10029
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m /Monday and Tuesday, CLOSED
Admission Fees by suggested donation: Adults: $6.00 / Students & Seniors: $4.00 / Members & Children Under 12: FREE/ Thursday: Seniors FREE all day

The gallery houses a world-renowned collection of art from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, and the Near East. Visitor favorites include Chinese paintings, Japanese folding screens, Korean ceramics, Indian and Persian manuscripts, and Buddhist sculpture. A highlight of the Whistler holdings is the Peacock Room, a dining room that was once part of a London townhouse.

http://www.asia.si.edu/

The Sackler Gallery is located at 1050 Independence Avenue, SW. The Freer Gallery of Art is located at Jefferson Drive at 12th Street, SW. Washington, USA
The two museums are connected by an underground exhibition space.
Hours: daily 10am - 5:30 pm
Free Admission

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the Smithsonian’s museum of international modern and contemporary art.The Hirshhorn’s collection represents a broad range of modern and contemporary art by artists from around the world, including the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. These holdings demonstrate the importance of particular artists in the history of modern art, including Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, and Auguste Rodin. The museum also collects contemporary artworks, spanning the careers of such artists as Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha.

http://hirshhorn.si.edu

Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW Washington, USA
Hours: Open daily except December 25
Museum: 10 am - 5:30 pm (EST) Plaza: 7:30 am - 5:30 pm
Sculpture Garden: 7:30 am - dusk Admission Free; donations are accepted.

Explore a collection with more than 100,000 works of art at LACMA, the largest encyclopedic museum west of Chicago. Through its far-reaching collections, the museum is both a resource to and a reflection of the many cultural communities and heritages in Southern California: European masterpieces, cutting-edge contemporary art, an extensive collection of American art from the United States and Latin America, a major Islamic art collection, one of the most comprehensive Korean art collections outside of Korea, and the stunning Pavilion for Japanese art.

http://www.lacma.org

5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA
Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 12 pm - 8 pm 
Friday: 12 pm - 9 pm / Saturday, Sunday: 11 am - 8 pm
Admission: A general admission ticket is a one-day pass to LACMA’s permanent galleries and non-ticketed exhibitions : Adults $9 / Concessions $5
Admission FREE after 5 pm & the second Tuesday of each month.

The collection of the MFAH contains more than 56,000 artworks, which date from antiquity to the present. he major civilizations of Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa are represented. Italian Renaissance paintings, French Impressionist works, photographs, American and European decorative arts, African and Pre-Columbian gold, American art, and European and American paintings and sculpture from post-1945 are particularly strong holdings.

http://www.mfah.org

1001 Bissonnet Street Houston, TX 77005 USA
Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. / Thursday 10:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. / Friday & Saturday 10:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m./ Sunday 12:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 
Admissions: Adults (non-member) $17 Tuesday through Sunday  $10 Thursday -
Target Free First Sundays / Concessions $13 and $8

Designed by Arata Isozaki, MOCA Grand Avenue is host to elegant underground galleries, the Patinette café, the flagship location of the MOCA Store, and staff offices.

http://www.moca.org

250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012 USA
Hours: MON 11am–5pm / THURS 11am–8pm /FRI 11am–5pm / SAT, SUN 11am–6pm 
TUES, WED CLOSED
Admission: general $10 / Students with I.D.: $5 / Seniors (65+): $5
Children under 12: Free
Free Thursdays: Admission is free every Thursday, 5 - 8pm

Located in the heart of West Hollywood, MOCA Pacific Design Center features rotating exhibitions of art, architecture, design, selections from MOCA's permanent collection, and Art Catalogues at MOCA Pacific Design Center.

http://www.moca.org

8687 Melrose Avenur, West Hollywood , CA 90069 USA
Hours: TUES–FRI 11am–5pm  /
SAT, SUN 11am–6pm
Monday CLOSED
Admission:FREE

From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art’s collection has grown to include 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 22,000 films, videos, and media works, as well as film stills, scripts, posters and historical documents. The Museum’s Library contains 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and the Museum Archives holds approximately 2,500 linear feet of historical documentation and a photographic archive of tens of thousands of photographs, including installation views of exhibitions and images of the Museum’s building and grounds. The higlights: Vincent van Gogh's  Starry Night and Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, plus Boccioni,  Mondrian, Chagall,
Pollock, Jasper Johns.

http://www.moma.org

11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues - New York, USA
Museum Hours:
Saturday to Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m./ Tuesday closed
Wednesday to Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. / Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Admission: Adults $20; Seniors 65 and over (with ID)$16;
Students  (full-time with current ID) $12

One of the Usa's largest facilities devoted to the art of our time, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) offers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance. Located in the heart of downtown Chicago, the MCA boasts a gift store, bookstore, restaurant, 300-seat theater, and a terraced sculpture garden with a great view of Lake Michigan.

http://www.mcachicago.org/

220 East Chicago Avenue
Hours: Monday Closed / Tuesday 10 am to 8 pm
Wednesday - Sunday 10 am to 5 pm
Admission: general  $10 / concessions $ 6
Admission is free all day on Tuesdays

The Museum of Fine Arts houses and preserves preeminent collections and aspires to serve a wide variety of people through direct encounters with works of art. Through exhibitions, programs, research and publications, the Museum documents and interprets its own collections. It provides information and perspective on art through time and throughout the world.

http://www.mfa.org/

Avenue of the Arts 465 Huntington Avenue - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Hours:  Monday and Tuesday
10 am- 4:45 pm /  Wednesday-Friday
10 am-9:45 pm
Saturday and Sunday 10 am-4:45 pm 
Dec 25 and Jan 1 the Museum is closed. / Thu Jan 4, the Museum closes at 4:45 pm
Admission: Adults $15 / concessions $13

The MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS (MoA) is one of the few art institutions in Florida to foster and promote both established and emerging contemporary artists of every origin. Located in the City of Doral (Miami-Dade County area), MoA serves as an important resource for artists, educators and the public. MoA provides a comprehensive exhibitions program of group and solo shows in different venues, as well as, Museum on Location a traveling exhibitions program held at international venues. Artists are provided with career counseling and referrals, while MoA serves as a place of first resort for arts professionals seeking information on the myriad array of fine artists in Miami-Dade.

http://http://www.museumamericas.org

2500 NW 79th Avenue, Suites #104 AND #108 - Doral, FL 33122 USA
Open to the public free of charge.
Hours of operation are from Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 am to 5:00 PM and on Saturday from 11:00 am to 4:00 PM.

The Museum of the City of New York’s collection of over 1.5 million objects and images, including  the Paintings and Sculpture Collection with more than 2500 works that depict New York and New Yorkers from the 17th century to the present; the  Decorative Arts Extensive holdings made or owned decorative arts and furniture dating from the 17th century to the 20th and over 27,000 garments and accessories worn by New Yorkers, from the 17th century to the present.

http://www.mcny.org/visit/

1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St.
New York, NY 10029 USA
Hours Tuesday - Sunday: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM /Closed Mondays.
Suggested Admission (as of February 20, 2006) Adults; $9 / Seniors, students; $5 / Children 12 and under; free / Free admission on Sundays between 10 AM and 12 PM.

The Academy houses one of the largest public collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art in the country. It comprises over five thousand works in almost every artistic style of the past two centuries, from the linear portraiture of the Federal period and the naturalistic landscapes of the Hudson River School to studies of light and atmosphere that inform Tonalism and American Impressionism; from the gritty realism of the Ashcan movement to the modernist movements of Fauvism, abstraction, and photo- and magic-realism.

http://www.nationalacademy.org/

1083 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street NY USA
Hours: Monday and Tuesday closed/
Wednesday, Thursday 12:00-5:00/
Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11:00-6:00
Admission: Regular $10 / concessions $5

Founded in 1977, the New Museum is the first and only contemporary art  museum in New York City. The Museum has organized exhibitions of emerging and established artists from  Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, England, Germany, Poland, Spain, South Africa, and Turkey. The Museum's Media Lounge was the first museum space in New York City devoted to presenting new digital art and experimental video from around the world.

http://www.newmuseum.org

Currently closed but opening to the public at 235 Bowery, New York City, New York, 10002, USA on December 1, 2007.
Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, from 12 pm to 6pm / Extended evening hours to the public on Thursdays and Fridays from 6 pm to
10 pm.
Free Thursday Evenings at the New Museum.
The Museum is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Admission: General $12 / Concessions seniors $8 and students $6
Photo: Design and Visualization: Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA. Site Photography: Christopher Dawson

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a dynamic center for modern and contemporary art. The Museum strives to engage and inspire a diverse range of audiences by pursuing an innovative program of exhibitions, education, publications, and collections activities. International in scope, while reflecting the distinctive character of our region, the Museum explores compelling expressions of visual culture.

http://www.sfmoma.org

151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Summer Hours: Monday - Tuesday 10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. /Wednesday Closed /Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 8:45 p.m. /Friday - Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Winter Hours: From Labor Day (the first Monday in September) through Memorial Day (the last Monday in May) open at 11:00 a.m. daily (except Wednesdays).
Admission: Adults $12.50 / Seniors and Students $8.00 - $7.00

http://www.sbma.net

1130 State Street - Santa Barbara CA - USA
Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11 am to 5 pm. Closed Mondays
Admission: general $9 / Concessions $6
Admission free every Sunday

The Santa Monica Museum of Art presents dynamic exhibitions of contemporary art in all mediums and across disciplines that reveal the vibrant, untold stories in the art and culture of our time. SMMoA: the Small Museum that takes Big Risks is the only non-collecting museum in Southern California. The museum devotes its exhibition spaces—the main gallery and two Project Rooms—to exploring and advancing the work of important contemporary local, national, and international artists whose unique bodies of work merit sustained inquiry and recognition.

http://www.smmoa.org/

Bergamot Station G1 2525 Michigan Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am-6 pm.
Closed Sunday and Monday

Located on the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus, the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art houses a permanent collection of over 10,000 objects, spanning five millennia of both Western and Eastern civilizations. The scope of its permanent collections, combined with groundbreaking special exhibitions, a focus on research and teaching by University of Chicago scholars, and distinguished outreach and educational programs geared to both adults and school age children, make the Smart one of the Midwest’s most dynamic and innovative educational institutions in the visual arts.

http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu

5550 S. Greenwood Ave. Chicago IL 60637 USA
Summer Hours: Tues – Fri 10 am - 4 pm
Sat – Sun 11 am - 5 pm
Galleries closed Mondays and holidays

The metamorphosis from private collection to public museum is an extraordinary transition. For the Guggenheim, this occurred in 1937, when Solomon R. Guggenheim established a foundation empowered to operate a museum that would publicly exhibit and preserve his holdings of non-objective art. Today, the Guggenheim is a museum in multiple locations with access to shared collections, common constituencies, and joint programming. Nevertheless, it is the permanent collection that constitutes the very core of the institution, no matter how far-reaching its activities may be.

http://www.guggenheim.org

1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street) New York, USA
Museum Hours: Saturday–Wednesday 10 AM–5:45 PM
Friday 10 AM–7:45 PM
Closed Thursdays and Christmas Day
Admission and complimentary audio tour: Adults $18
Students and Seniors (65 years +) with valid ID $15
Children under 12 Free - Members Free

The Station is a private institution dedicated to contemporary art. It is an exhibition forum for local, national, and international artists. Its emphasis is on fine arts and artists that are rarely, if ever acknowledged by other cultural institutions. The museum’s goal is to encourage the public’s awareness of the cultural, political, economic, and personal dimensions of art.

http://www.stationmuseum.com/

Station Museum 1502 Alabama
Houston, TX 77004 USA
Hours: Wed. - Sun. 11am - 6 pm
Free Admission

From a single object in 1914, The Baltimore Museum of Art’s outstanding collection today encompasses 90,000 works of art, including the largest holding of works by Henri Matisse in the world, as well as masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, and Vincent van Gogh. The BMA is recognized for an impressive collection of contemporary art that includes important examples of Abstract Expressionism, Minimalist sculpture, and Pop Art with many late works by Andy Warhol, as well as major acquisitions of more recent work by artists such as Olafur Eliasson and Kara Walker. The Museum also boasts an internationally renowned collection of prints, drawings, and photographs from the 15th century to the present and European masterpieces by Sandro Botticelli, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Sir Anthony van Dyck; distinguished American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; one of the most important African collections in the country and notable examples of art from the Ancient Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.

http://artbma.org/

10 Art Museum Drive Baltimore, MD 21218-3898 USA
Hours: Wednesday - Friday, 11 a.m - 5 p.m. / Saturday - Sunday, 11 a.m - 6 p.m.
Free First Thursday Nights from 11 a.m.- 8 p.m.
The BMA is closed Monday
Free general admission. Certain featured exhibitions may charge admission.

The Contemporary Museum explores the art and culture of our time by presenting new art, new ideas and new creative processes. Since its founding in 1989, the Contemporary Museum has been committed to presenting thought-provoking exhibitions, innovative programming, and unique collaborations with artists, curators, and members of the Baltimore community.

http://www.contemporary.org/

100 West Centre Street, between Cathedral and Howard Street, in Baltimore, Maryland.USA
Hours:Wednesday - Sunday, 12:00 pm - 5 pm
Suggested Donation Adults $5 / Students $3

A former police car warehouse in Little Tokyo renovated by the noted California architect Frank O. Gehry, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (formerly The Temporary Contemporary) opened in 1983. This location offers 40,000 square feet of exhibition space and a branch of the MOCA Store.

http://www.moca.org

152 North Central Avenue Los Angeles CA 90013 USA
Hours: MON 11am–5pm / THURS 11am–8pm /FRI 11am–5pm / SAT, SUN 11am–6pm 
TUES, WED CLOSED
Admission: general $10 / Students with I.D.: $5 / Seniors (65+): $5
Children under 12: Free
Free Thursdays: Admission is free every Thursday, 5 - 8pm

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. With two locations, the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum serves a wide variety of audiences through its expanded range of exhibitions and programming in the visual arts.

http://www.getty.edu/museum/

1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, California 90049
Hours: Tuesday - Friday and Sunday
10 am - 5:30 pm / Saturday 10 am- 9 pm
Closed Monday and on January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving and December 25.
Admission: FREE

The Hermitage-Guggenheim Museum is located in the building of The Venetian Resort. Its rooms will be used for exhibitions of works of classical and contemporary art from the collections of the two museums. The exhibitions will change roughly twice a year.

http://www.guggenheimlasvegas.org/

at The Venetian 3355 Las Vegas Blvd South Las Vegas, NV 89109 USA
Hours: Open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; last entry at 7 p.m.
Admission Free until May 11 2008.

The collection of The Jewish Museum demonstrates how Jewish culture is reflected in art through 28,000 objects of different media, including Fine Arts, Judaica, and broadcast media. The museum has taken a broad view of fine arts acquisitions, collecting material that is both specifically and implicitly related to Jewish culture: by virtue of the subject depicted; because of the implicit intent of the artist;
or because a work by a Jewish artist represents a significant contribution to the history of art.

http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/

1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street New York, New York 10128 USA
Hours: Saturday - Wednesday 11:00 am - 5:45 pm/ Thursday 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Friday Closed
Admission: Adults $12 / Seniors over 65
$10 /Students $ 7.50
FREE SATURDAYS 11:00 am - 5:45 pm

The Menil Collection, which is operated by the Menil Foundation, Inc., opened to the public in June 1987 as the primary repository of John and Dominique de Menil’s private collection. One of the most significant of the twentieth century, the collection consists of nearly 15,000 works dating from the Paleolithic era to the present day. Although historically vast, it uniquely resists the conventional museum model of the encyclopedia. Instead, within the four areas that largely define the collection—Antiquity, Byzantine and Medieval, Tribal, and Twentieth-Century Art (with a concentration in Surrealism)—one finds a selective approach to acquisition that yields depth with regard to particular areas and artists.

http://www.menil.org

1515 Sul Ross Houston, Texas
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Open free of charge

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. The Museum’s two-million-square-foot building has vast holdings that represent a series of collections, each of which ranks in its category among the finest in the world. The American Wing, for example, houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts, presently including 24 period rooms that offer an unparalleled view of American history and domestic life. The Museum’s approximately 2,500 European paintings form one of the greatest such collections in the world – Rembrandts and Vermeers alone are among the choicest, not to mention the collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases. Virtually all of the 36,000 objects constituting the greatest collection of Egyptian art outside Cairo are on display, while the Islamic art collection is one of the world’s finest.

http://www.metmuseum.org

1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street- New York, United States
Hours: Sunday to Thursday 9 am-5.30 pm 
Friday and Saturday 9:30 am - 9 pm 
Closed on Mondays (except for the 'MET Holiday Mondays')
Admissions recommended: $20 for  adults, $15 for senior citizens and $10 for students

The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. During the 1920s, Mr. Mellon began collecting with the intention of forming a gallery of art for the nation in Washington. The paintings and works of sculpture given by Andrew Mellon have formed a nucleus of high quality around which the collections have grown.

http://www.nga.gov

National Mall between Third and Seventh Streets at Constitution Avenue, Washington, USA
Hours: Monday through Saturday 10 am - 5 pm and Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm
Admission is always free

The Phillips Collection, opened in 1921, is America’s first museum of modern art. Featuring a renowned permanent collection of nearly 2,500 works by American and European impressionist and modern artists, the Phillips is internationally recognized for both its incomparable art and its intimate atmosphere. Housed in founder Duncan Phillips’ 1897 Georgian Revival home and similarly scaled additions in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood, The Phillips Collection is widely regarded as one of the world’s finest small museums.

http://www.phillipscollection.org

1600 21st Street, NW Washington, DC USA
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 am–5:00 pm
Thursday, extended hours: 10:00 am–8:30 pm
Sunday: 12:00–7:00 pm /12:00–5:00 pm (June–September)
Closed Monday

The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for black artists locally, nationally, and internationally, and for work that has been inspired by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society. The Museum’s Permanent Collection includes over 1,600 paintings, sculptures, watercolors, drawings, pastels, prints, photographs, mixed media works, and installations.

http://www.studiomuseum.org/

144 West 125th Street New York, New York 10027 USA
Hours: Wednesday through Friday 12 PM - 6 PM / Saturday 10 AM - 6 PM
Sunday 12 PM - 6 PM / Closed Monday and Tuesday
Admissions: Suggested donation Adults $7
Seniors and students (with valid id) $3

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is internationally renowned for its collection of art, which was amassed substantially by two men, William and Henry Walters, and eventually bequeathed to the City of Baltimore. The collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Deco jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces.

http://www.thewalters.org/

600 North Charles Street in Baltimore , MD 21201 USA
Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 10 am - 5 pm / Fridays open till 8 p.m
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
'First Fridays' from October to November, first friday from 5 to 9 : live entertainement, tours, demonstrations
General Admission Free

The Whitney Museum houses one of the world’s foremost collections of twentieth-century American art. The Permanent Collection of some 12,000 works encompasses paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings, prints, and photographs—and is still growing. The Museum was founded in 1931 with a core group of 700 art objects, many of them from the personal collection of founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; others were purchased by Mrs. Whitney at the time of the opening to provide a more thorough overview of American art in the early decades of the century. Mrs. Whitney favored the art of the revolutionary artists derisively called the Ashcan School, among them John Sloan, George Luks, and Everett Shinn, as well as realists such as Edward Hopper and American Scene painters John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton. Her initial gift, however, also comprised many important works by early modernists—Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Max Weber, and others. Virtually all the works collected by the Museum for the next twenty years came through the generosity of Mrs. Whitney.

http://www.whitney.org

945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021 United States
Hours: Monday–Tuesday Closed
Wednesday–Thursday 11 am–6 pm
Friday 1–9 pm (6–9 pm pay-what-you-wish admission) Saturday–Sunday 11 am–6 pm
Admission: general $15 / concessions $10
Museo + the Kaufman Astoria Studios Film & Video Gallery $6