Enter Through the Gift Shop: The American Visionary Art Museum

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Broads, it is officially summer in the Northern Hemisphere and thus here we are in prime Gift Shop Season. Let me remind you that if you come across a delightful gift shop in your travels, we’d love to hear about it at dwbgiftshop@gmail.com — our archive of these is here, if you’re not sure which we’ve done! — and don’t worry, if you’ve made a suggestion already, I will get around to featuring it. I’m working through a very robust list full of gift shops I never would have known about if not for intrepid Broads Nation.

Today’s, in fact, comes via a reader submission from Jackie C! Please join me in virtually travelling to Baltimore, Maryland, to visit the American Visionary Art Museum. Its website calls it “America’s official national museum, education center, and repository for self-taught and intuitive artistry,” which “specializes in original thematic exhibitions that seamlessly combine art, science, philosophy, humor and especially social justice and betterment.” Most Yelp users …