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Baltimore Museum of Art vs American Visionary Art Museum

Both are highly recommended by travel writers. On balance, Baltimore Museum of Art scores marginally better than American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore Museum of Art has a TripExpert Score of 91 with praise from 10 publications such as Travel + Leisure, Afar Magazine and Time Out.

Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
9 / 10
10 Art Museum Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218-3898
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Concierge Concierge
"The Baltimore Museum of Art may surprise first-time visitors with the scope of its collection. The monumental neoclassical building designed by John Russell Pope holds major works."
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
"With a massive collection (the early American, Asian and African galleries are particularly impressive) and a lovely sculpture garden, this museum easily competes with its Smithsonian cousins to the south." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"A new family audio tour... highlights 20 works of art." Full review
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Don’t miss kid-friendly workshops, sketching tours, and more
Time Out Time Out
"The museum has a notable collection of modern paintings and sculpture from Van Gogh to Warhol and Rodin to Nevelson." Full review
Fodor's Fodor's
"Works by Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Monet are among the 90,000 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts on exhibit at this impressive museum." Full review
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American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
9 / 10
800 Key Hwy, Baltimore, MD 21230
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Concierge Concierge
"This Federal Hill museum has a populist mission: to celebrate the self-taught artistry of factory workers and farmers, institutionalized patients, even a respected Maryland surgeon."
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
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"A showcase for self-taught (or 'outsider' art), a celebration of unbridled creativity." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"Dedicated to visionary art (which is, simply put, created by self-taught artists who play by their own rules) is more fun house than museum." Full review
Fodor's Fodor's
"The nation's primary museum and education center for self-taught or "outsider" art has won great acclaim." Full review
Afar Magazine Afar Magazine
"Baltimore is host to a very unique artistic culture, and none may be more different than what is on display at the American Visionary Art Museum." Full review
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