American Visionary Art Museum – Virtual Tour
The American Visionary Art Museum specializes in the preservation and display of outsider art, also known as “intuitive art,” “raw art,” or “art brut.” Congress has designated it as America’s National Museum for Visionary Art.
The museum’s facilities feature three floors of exhibition space, a Sculpture Barn and Wildflower Garden, and event spaces.
The museum has a permanent collection of about 4,000 pieces. Its exhibitions, rather than focusing on specific artists or styles, focus on themed shows.
The museum’s list of educational goals include:
- Expand the definition of a worthwhile life
- Engender respect for and delight in the gift of others
The American Visionary Art Museum sponsors artistic events, including art car events, the Kinetic Sculpture Race, workshops, awareness events, and fundraisers.
Highlights of the American Visionary Art Museum
- The Cabaret Mechanical Theatre of London collection – an interactive display of automata
- The Tall Sculpture Barn exhibits
- Kinetic Sculptures from the museum’s annual race
- Leonard Knight’s “Love Balloon”
- DeVon Smith’s “World’s First Robot Family”
- Adam Kurtzman’s “Giant Golden Hand”
- Outdoor Movie events
- East Coast Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race
- Themed annual “mega-exhibitions”
American Visionary Art Museum
- Museum: American Visionary Art Museum
- City: Baltimore
- State: Maryland
- Country: United States
- Established: 1995
- Type: Art museum
- Location: 800 Key Hwy, Baltimore, MD, United States
American Visionary Art Museum – Map
American Visionary Art Museum – 360 Virtual Views
American Visionary Art Museum – 360 Virtual Views
American Visionary Art Museum- 360 Virtual Views
A Tour of New York Museums
- Metropolitan Museum of Art – MET
- Museum of Modern Art, NYC
- Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum
- Neue Galerie New York
- The Cloisters
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- American Museum of Natural History
- Museum of the City of New York
- New-York Historical Society
- Frick Collection
- Met Breuer
- Rubin Museum of Art
- Jewish Museum
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Brooklyn Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
Virtual Tour of the Museums in Washington, D.C.
- National Gallery of Art
- National Museum of American History
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Portrait Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The Phillips Collection
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- International Spy Museum
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- National Museum of the United States Navy
- National Museum of the American Indian
- National Postal Museum
- National Museum of African Art
- National Building Museum
- Smithsonian National Zoological Park
- National Law Enforcement Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
Virtual Tour of the Museums in Baltimore
- Walters Art Museum
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- American Visionary Art Museum
- Baltimore Museum of Industry
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“Creativity takes courage.”
– Henri Matisse
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