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The Walters Art Museum has raised $30 million in its Sharing the Gift fundraising campaign.
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Read More »Walters Art Museum receives $913k for new projects
The Walters Art Museum has been awarded $913,000 in grants for upcoming projects and exhibits leading into its 80th anniversary as a public museum.
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Read More »At Walters, hacking for art’s sake
The Walters Art Museum will hold its second Art Bytes hackathon this weekend, with the expectation of attracting 100 innovators to the downtown museum.
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Read More »At the Walters, public input on new exhibit
To create its newest exhibit, “Public Property,” the Walters Art Museum worked with thousands of consultants, all of whom were visitors to the museum, its website and its social media. In 1931, Henry Walters bequeathed the core collection of the ...
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Read More »Walters Art Museum wins grant to digitize medieval books
The National Endowment for the Humanities is awarding the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore a $265,000 grant to digitize, catalog and distribute 113 medieval Flemish manuscripts, including a collection of prayer books adorned with gold. The three-year grant announced Tuesday ...
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Read More »Top 5: ‘This is plan B and C’
Tough decisions are being made in Annapolis about the state budget, and the long-time director of the Walter’s Art Museum announced he would be stepping down. Those stories and more in this week’s business top 5. 1. Analyst: ‘Doomsday Budget’ ...
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Read More »Walters’ director Vikan stepping down after 27 years
The best thing about the Walters Art Museum, according to Gary Vikan, is a Saturday afternoon. “You just stand in that lobby and watch parents and children and young couples, African Americans, Hispanics — this is what a museum should ...
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Read More »Collector gives art, $4M to Walters Art Museum
Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum announced a gift of 300 works of Ancient Americas art and a $4 million endowment from John Bourne, a Santa Fe, N.M., art collector. The museum said it will combine the gift from Bourne with an ...
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Read More »Getaways: Caribbean Festival and Monster Jam
If you don’t have any exotic vacation plans this summer, that’s alright. You can still get your taste of the Caribbean in Baltimore this summer with the annual Caribbean Carnival Festival in Clifton Park. The festival, held Saturday and Sunday, ...
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Read More »Getaways: Baltimore Pride and Pimlico Fair
As it is the outdoor fair/festival season, we have more glorious parade/fair-like events coming up this weekend. Friday kicks off the Pimlico Fair’s three-weekend run at Pimlico Race Course at 5 p.m. The $5 admission will get you more than 100 ...
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