The Walters Art Museum keeps its treasures up late, too. The museum’s evening calendar — Thursday hours, curator talks, lectures and its celebrated conversation series, including ‘Queering the Collection,’ which invites artists and scholars to read familiar works through fresh eyes — turns Mount Vernon’s marble halls into one of Baltimore’s smartest salons.
The format is irresistible: a glass of something, a 600-year-old masterpiece, and a speaker who makes you see it as if for the first time. With admission always free, the Walters’ programs have quietly become a fixture of the city’s intellectual nightlife, drawing crowds that spill from the galleries to dinner on Mount Vernon Place.
Check the calendar; the next talk is probably this week.
The Walters is at 600 North Charles Street and admission is free. Programs at thewalters.org.
