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History Through Poetry
December 11, 2024 – August 31, 2025
Free for all
Installed throughout Homewood Museum’s period rooms, this exhibition features new original poems inspired by the collection. Considering decorative arts and material culture while honoring the lives of the enslaved people who once lived and worked at Homewood, the poems bridge creative imagination with historic research to bring paintings, furnishings, and other artifacts to life for visitors. The exhibition is the culmination of a Johns Hopkins First-Year Seminar that explores the study and practice of poetry to bring to light overlooked stories and give voice to the voiceless, materializing meaning out of absences and questions.
The exhibition is open to the public during regular museum hours, Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. No advance registration required.
Ceramics Highlights at Homewood
Ongoing
Homewood Museum, Housekeeper’s Room
Free for all
Ceramics were among the most in demand goods in 18th and 19th century America, and the ceramics trade contributed to Baltimore’s growth as a prosperous port city. Baltimore’s Canton neighborhood is named after the port of Canton (present day Guangzhou), China, where export trade goods departed on ships bound for North America. This spotlight display features selected ceramic ware drawn from Homewood Museum’s own collections that reveal much about how life was lived at Homewood and contribute to our understanding of Baltimore’s significant role in the Chinese export trade.
This exhibition is open to the public during regular museum hours, Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. No advance registration is required.
Evergreen Museum & Library
New Perspectives of Historic Evergreen
On view April 1 – September 8, 2025
Evergreen Museum & Library, Student Engagement Space
What can happen when we look at a museum through the lens of a camera? Using traditional 4×5 land cameras, three Baltimore School for the Arts seniors—Kyndall Roots, Rose Jean-Gilles Joseph, and Hassan Hunt—under the tutelage of Baltimore photographer Joe Giordano, spent the past several months exploring Evergreen Museum & Library. The students played with different levels of lights, models, and angles to explore the site’s history and creativity, as seen through their eyes.
The exhibition is available via guided tour.
Leave No Trace: John Work Garrett in the American Outdoors
On view through June 8, 2025
Evergreen Museum & Library, North Wing Gallery
Free for Friends of the JHU Museums & J-Card holders | $5 General Admission
John Work Garrett II (1872-1942) is best remembered today as a diplomat and book collector, who was a product of the privileged East Coast milieu in which he was raised. But in addition to his boyhood summers at Evergreen, his teenage travels in Europe and the Far East, and his university years at Princeton, Garrett’s character and imagination were formed by numerous excursions into the American West. Leave No Trace: John Work Garrett in the American Outdoors examines these formative experiences through archival photography, diary entries, artifacts, sculptures, and more, asking visitors to consider the idea of the American West from multiple perspectives and reflect on their own relationship to the great outdoors.
The exhibition is open to the public during regular museum hours, Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. No advance registration required.
Art Glass at Evergreen
Currently not on view
Evergreen Museum & Library, North Wing Gallery
Free for Friends of the JHU Museums & J-Card holders | $5 General Admission
Evergreen Museum & Library possesses one of the world’s largest private collections of 19th- and 20th-century art glass, including many important pieces by American and European makers such as Tiffany, Steuben, Durand, Loetz, and Émile Gallé. This installation gathers these highlights, showing off the breadth and depth of the collection and contextualizing its history at Evergreen.
The exhibition is open to the public during regular museum hours, Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. No advance registration required.