Museums... I've been to many and I admit to being ...

Museums... I've been to many and I admit to being terribly uncultured because sometimes, they just make me want to curl up in a corner somewhere and take a nap. This possibly may happen more when considering the big guns, your Louvres, your Uffizis, your Mets of the world but even a peasant like Yours, Truly, cannot get enough of the American Visionary Art Museum.

It's my understanding that the exhibits change seasonally. Regardless, what to expect here is exit/outsider art (your artistic savants who likely never went to art school). I learned that painted screens were a thing in Baltimore and I find that fascinating! Make sure you go across the courtyard, through the event space to the second building so you can see these screens outfitted on a fabricated building. There's also a circus diorama display and a giant rotating sculpture of the one and only Divine.

In the main building, my favorite (and not sure if this is rotating) was the photos of bejeweled saints' corpses-- Heavenly Bodies. I loved that the description, they liken it to "Pro-Catholic PR." I mean, it surely makes me appreciate the religion in which I was raised even more because how cool are bedazzled skeletons, right?

Besides the exhibits, they have a bunch of short documentaries in which you get to "meet" the artists and see where they're coming from.

Pro Tip: Do NOT miss the vintage Pez display on the top floor of the main building (who doesn't love Pez dispensers?!) Beware, that lovely spiraling staircase may give you vertigo, so take the elevator up! Yay, Pez!! There really is something for everyone here.