Annual Reports

This year, the Baltimore Museum of Art marked its 110th anniversary—a moment that invited both celebration and reflection. Since its founding in 1914, the BMA has continually evolved, embracing a vision of the Museum as a dynamic civic institution—one shaped by artists, responsive to its city, and committed to expanding the narratives that define our shared cultural life.

This was a year full of transformative moments, including the reopening of the newly reimagined Patricia and Mark Joseph Education Center and the presentation of Raúl de Nieves: and imagine you are here, the second Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Commission.

The most significant milestone of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s fiscal year 2023 was the Board of Trustees’ unanimous appointment of Asma Naeem as the Museum’s Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director beginning in February 2023.

Throughout its 108-year history, the Baltimore Museum of Art has held to its vision of being a place that actively brings the fine arts into the lives of Baltimore’s citizens and their children. The world and our city have changed significantly over the decades and the BMA has grown with them, reinventing the museum experience for each generation to discover a new meaning and relevance in art.

The BMA has long been guided by a belief in the importance of art to our social fabric. In difficult times, its ability to foster conversation and encourage new ways of thinking and considering the world around us feels particularly needed.

Finding our way through a socially distanced world still plagued by centuries of racial discrimination heightened our determination to fulfill the Museum’s mission to achieve artistic excellence and social equity with ever more clarity and conviction.

We made great strides in realizing the goals of our mission and vision adopted in 2018.

We developed a new strategic plan with a bold new mission and vision that has had made an impact on a regional and national level.