Baltimore - Walters Art Gallery

The Walters Art Museum, located in Mount Vernon's Cultural District, is a cultural institution of international renown, one of only a few museums worldwide to present a comprehensive history of art from the third millennium B.C. to the early 20th century. Among its thousands of treasures, the Walters Art Museum holds a fine collection of ivories, jewelry, enamels and bronzes and a large reserve of illuminated manuscripts and rare books. The Walters' Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Byzantine, Ethiopian and western medieval art collections are extensive, as are the museum's holdings of Renaissance and Asian art. Every major trend in French painting during the 19th century is represented by one or more works in the Walters' collection.