Johns Hopkins University Museums

Naturally Beautiful: Uncovering Nature in the Nineteenth-Century Home
2021-09-24 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
In Naturally Beautiful: Uncovering Nature in the Nineteenth-Century Home, Homewood Museum mines its impressive collection of decorative arts to explore how environmental factors shaped tastes and trends in home furnishings in the early American republic. From mahogany furniture that resulted in mass deforestation to lithographs that celebrated the new nation’s natural splendor, the house-wide exhibition reveals early Americans’ complex relationship to their environment and Baltimore’s role as a bustling port of trade and taste-making city. On view September 23, 2021 – March 27, 2022.
PLEASE NOTE: The exhibition is on view with regular museum admission. Please click here to book a tour of the museum.

Art Glass at Evergreen
2021-10-15 11:00 - 16:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Evergreen Museum & Library possesses one of the world’s largest private collections of art glass, including many important pieces by Tiffany, Steuben, Loetz, and other leading glass manufacturers. For many years, these objects were displayed throughout he museum, integrated with all the other masterpieces and curiosities in the museum’s sprawling collection. Now, museum curators have gathered many of the most significant pieces of art glass for a permanent installation in the museum’s North Wing Gallery that gives these luminous works the spotlight they need to really shine.

Brice Brown: Proscenium
2022-01-29 11:00 - 16:00 | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Contemporary Artist Brice Brown presents a site-specific video installation inspired by Evergreen’s Bakst Theatre. Supplemented by sculptures and printed materials, the installation is a multimedia experience that collapses boundaries between viewer and participant. On view with regular museum admission.
Exhibition Opening with Artist Talk: Saturday, January 29, 2-4:30 p.m. FREE; advance registration required. Click here to register.
