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American Visionary Art Museum

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American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum
Phone:
+1 410-244-1900

Hours:
Sunday10am - 6pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 6pm
Wednesday10am - 6pm
Thursday10am - 6pm
Friday10am - 6pm
Saturday10am - 6pm


The history of the Czechs in Baltimore dates back to the mid-19th century. Thousands of Czechs immigrated to East Baltimore during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, becoming an important component of Baltimore's ethnic and cultural heritage. The Czech community has founded a number of cultural institutions to preserve the city's Czech heritage, including a Roman Catholic church, a heritage association, a festival, a language school, and a cemetery. During the height of the Czech community in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Baltimore was home to 12,000 to 15,000 people of Czech birth or heritage. The population began to decline during the mid-to-late 20th century, as the community assimilated and aged and many Czech Americans moved to the suburbs of Baltimore. By the 1980s and early 1990s, the former Czech community in East Baltimore had been almost entirely dispersed.
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