The Walter Art Museumis a public museum located in Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood of Baltimore, opened in 1934. Most of the museum's collection was amassed by major American art collectors, a father and son William Thompson Walters and Henry Walters. Henry Walters occasionally allowed the Baltimore public to visit his father's and his collection at his West Mount Vernon Place mansion in the late 1800s, and in the early 20th century he built nearby a lavish stone palazzo to store his growing collection. The collection includes priceless artworks from ancient Egypt, large Greek sculptures, Roman sarcophagi, Renaissance bronzes, illuminated manuscripts, Old Masters and 19th-century European paintings, and Chinese bronzes and ceramics. Upon his death in 1931, Henry Walters bequeathed his entire collection of over 22,000 works of art and the buildings that housed them to the city of Baltimore.

600 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201

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