American Visionary Art Museum

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American Visionary Art Museum

Address

800 Key Highway

Baltimore, MD 21230 

Phone

(410) 244-1900

Area

Neighborhood

Price

$12

Web Page

http://www.avam.org/index.html

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Museums Type

Art museum

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Description

The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is an art museum located in the Federal Hill neighborhood at 800 Key Highway in Baltimore, Maryland. The city agreed to give the museum a piece of land on the south shore of the Inner Harbor under the condition that its organizers would clean up residual pollution from a copper paint factory and a whiskey warehouse that formerly occupied the site. It has been designated by Congress as America's national museum for self-taught art.

AVAM has 55,000 square feet (5,100 m2) of exhibit space but has a permanent collection of only 4,000 pieces. The collection includes works by visionary artists Ho Baron, Clyde Jones, Vollis Simpson and Ben Wilson as well as over 40 pieces from the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre of London. Some of this work is displayed in a gallery on the first floor of the Main Building, throughout the James Rouse Visionary Center, and outdoors when new temporary themed exhibitions are being installed. [1]

Hours Subject to change. Always verify.

• Tuesday - Sunday

10 am-6 pm