The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery is located on the first floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. The Gallery serves as one of the principal art spaces in the region. Items from the Library’s Special Collections department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions. Traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits throughout the state and nation. In addition to exhibitions, the Library Gallery often hosts panel discussions, guest lectures and private gatherings. The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery is ADA accessible.
Admission
Exhibitions and events held in the Albin O. Kuhn Library are free unless otherwise indicated.
Travel Directions
UMBC is located along I-95 near the Baltimore Beltway, I-695.
Using Apple or Google Maps, search for Walker Avenue Garage, or follow the directions below:
• From I-95 south of Baltimore, take Exit 47B and follow signs to Route 166 and then signs to the campus, which is just off the highway. At the second traffic circle, proceed 3/4 the way around to join the inner loop of Hilltop Circle. Proceed through the traffic light, and then turn right onto Walker Avenue. Watch for the Walker Avenue Garage on your right, and pull into the top level.
• From I-695, take Exit 12C, Wilkens Avenue West. At the roundabout, go 3/4 the way around to join Hilltop Road. Turn left at the traffic light onto the inner loop of Hilltop Circle. Take a right at the stop sign onto Walker Avenue. Watch for the Walker Avenue Garage on your right, and pull into the top level.
• For additional information, including mass transit options and maps, please visit the campus visit site.
Parking
Paid parking is available on the top floor of the Walker Avenue Garage for $2.00 per hour, payable by MasterCard, Visa or exact currency (no change provided). Visitor parking is enforced Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Pay stations are ADA compliant.
Visitors may now use the Passport Parking App to pay for parking. Simply download the app and you can pay with your phone or device.
Visitor parking is not enforced on the following University observed holidays: New Years Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday, and Christmas Day through the end of the calendar year.
Dining Options
On campus dining options may be found here. The nearby communities of Arbutus and Catonsville provide many other options, listed here, and we also encourage visitors to explore the Catonsville Arts District.
Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore is the first career retrospective of artist Amos Badertscher in the United States. Between the 1960s and 2005, Badertscher documented hustlers, club kids, go-go dancers, drag queens, drug addicts, friends, and lovers who were part of LGBTQ+ life in Baltimore.
In conjunction with the exhibition Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents a panel discussion, LGBTQ+ Oral Histories: Ethics and Practice. The discussion will feature Kate Drabinski (UMBC), Joseph Plaster (Johns Hopkins University), Hunter O’Hanian (independent scholar and curator), and students of the 2023 Interdisciplinary CoLab, “LGBTQ+ Oral History Project.”
The annual Mullen Lecture, part of the Fall 2023 Social Sciences Forum, presents Melissa Kearney, Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, who will speak on The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind.
The Human Context of Science and Technology program lecture, part of the Fall 2023 Social Sciences Forum, presents Juno Salazar Parreñas, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, who will speak on White Supremacy, Animal Advocacy, and the Longue Durée of Misanthropy.
As the computer, the printing press, or the quill pen was to the book culture of other eras, slavery was to ancient Rome. From the Late Republic through the High Empire, members of Rome's literate elite made use of enslaved research assistants and stenographers to write books, enslaved copyists and binders to make new copies and maintain old ones, and enslaved readers to read aloud for convenience or in social settings. This talk will examine enslaved reading in Rome, situate that practice in histories of reading and of slavery, and look at how the questions this practice raises relate to the current moment of interest in generative AI.
The long months between the Munich Crisis of fall 1938 and the spring 1940 end of the eight-month period at the start of World War Two, in which there were few armed engagements, has been called the Phoney War. The battlefields were psychological and imagined as much as they were physical and material. This talk will consider a variety of sources that reveal visceral experience and allow us to explore the internal and internalized history of the War.
This talk explores the story of the official American expedition to Japan in 1852-54 to “open” the far-flung country to trade and a western-based diplomatic order. It also argues for the need to reassess the importance of the mission in the context of U.S. foreign policy and history, and to highlight it as one of the earliest, most significant, and in many respects successful, exercises in American imperialism.
