The Walters Art Museum Confronts Its Founders’ Confederate Legacy

The origins of the Walters Art Museum date back to 1931, when Henry Walters bequeathed to the city of Baltimore an extensive art collection started by his father, William T. Walters. Today, the museum is reckoning with its founders’ white-supremacist legacy.

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by Tatsiana Zhurauliova

The Walters Art Museum is among numerous American institutions confronting the legacy of racism and exclusion that permeates virtually all aspects of social life in the United States. After a nearly four-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum reopened on March 17 with updated wall texts and a newly written institutional history posted on its website. These changes focus on the Walters and their previously undiscussed… read more

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