Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum founded and opened in 1934. Run by Derya Khatun, it is a hub for vampiric social events and gatherings and a named Elysium.
Among it's various collections, it boasts exhibits of:
- Ancient art
- Art of the ancient Americas
- Asian art
- Islamic art
- Medieval European art
- Renaissance, Baroque and 18th-century European art
- 19th-century European art
Charles Street
Architecture
There are three buildings that make up the Walters:
Charles Street – Old Main Building (1905–1909)
Henry Walters' original gallery was designed by architect William Adams Delano and erected between 1904 and 1909. The arts of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, French decorative arts of the 18th and 19th centuries, and manuscripts and rare books are now exhibited in this palazzo-style structure.Centre Street Annex Building (1974)
Designed by the Boston firm of Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson, and Abbott, in the "Brutalist" poured-concrete style prevailing in the 1960s, (pictured above), opened in 1974. It was substantially altered in 1998–2001 by another firm of Kallmann McKinnell and Wood, Architects, to provide a four-story glass atrium, with a suspended staircase at the juncture between the older and newer buildings with a new entrance lobby along Centre Street. The new lobby, which also provides easier ground-level handicapped access along with enhanced security provisions for both collections and visitors is also providing a café, an enlarged museum and gift store and a reference library. The ancient, Byzantine, medieval, Ethiopian, and 19th-century European collections are housed in this building, with its large display walls and irregular corridors and galleries. Also here is the museum's famed art conservation laboratory, which is one of the oldest in the country.Hackerman House (1850/1991)
The Greek Revival style townhouse/mansion, one of the most elaborate in the city, was designed by famed local architect John Rudolph Niernsee (1814–1885), and erected between 1848 and 1850 for Dr. John Hanson Thomas, was long regarded as the most "elegant" house along Mount Vernon Place or Washington Place. It sits on the southwest corner of the circle surrounding the Washington Monument. Since additional renovations with the addition of a connecting gallery with domed skylight and corridor constructed through the top of the old rear carriage house/garage to the south end of the house, and across the east-west alley to the old 1909 Main Building's north side. Reopened in 1991, the newly renamed "Hackerman House" has been devoted to The Walters' recently expanded holdings of Asian art.
Centre Street Annex Building
