Contemporary Museum Baltimore

The Contemporary Museum is a small museum of contemporary art in Baltimore, Maryland.

The museum was founded in 1989 at the First Day without Art ( an American art action on AIDS ) as a local art initiative, and had in the first ten years is no fixed venue. Instead found the exhibitions and museum events held in the premises of partner institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum. 1999 acquired a building in Mount Vernon Place Historic District, a listed historic district in the heart of Baltimore, the museum. The building on Centre Street not far from the Walters Art Museum previously served as an office building for the insurance Home Mutual Life. After the conversion, it has an exhibition area of ​​about 150 m2.

Take place three to four temporary exhibitions per year. It also known artists such as Louise Bourgeois ( 2006) were issued, but it outweigh group exhibitions and works by international artists not yet established, which often have a connection to Baltimore. The Contemporary Museum is funded by membership fees, the NEA and local public funding and private donations. The museum was conducted from 1996 to 2002 by Gary Sangster. Following an interim occupation Thom Collins led the House from 2004 to 2005 as Executive Director. Since 2006, Irene Hofmann takes this position.