Contemporary Museum Baltimore

The Contemporary has no permanent collection and, for much of its history, no permanent home. This itinerant museum of contemporary art in Baltimore does not collect artworks. Instead it organizes exhibitions and projects in borrowed and unconventional spaces around the city.

George Ciscle founded it in 1989 as the Contemporary Museum. Throughout its first decade it described itself as "dedicated to redefining the concept of the museum," staging shows in non-traditional venues and in partner institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Maryland Historical Society, the Peabody Conservatory and the Walters Art Museum.

From 1999 it spent nearly ten years at 100 W. Centre Street in the Mount Vernon neighborhood, one block from the Walters. It left that space in 2011 and returned to working in neighboring institutions and buildings. In 2013 it adopted its current name after a year spent reimagining its mission, vision and operating structure.