Glenstone Museum

Glenstone Museum Seamlessly integrating art, architecture, and nature into a serene and contemplative environment. Admission is always free. Visitors must be 12 years or older.
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Glenstone Museum was established in 2006 on three fundamental elements: art, architecture and nature. We pursue artworks of the highest quality from post-World War II artists and display theme in a serene and contemplative environment. The museum is set on 300+ acres and includes exhibition space designed by the late architect Charles Gwathmey and outdoor sculpture tours. In 2018, Glenstone opened

The Pavilions, a new building designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners and new landscape architecture designed by PWP Landscape Architecture. Admission to Glenstone is always free.

🍂 Fall exhibition announcement 🍂 On Saturday, September 19, “Louder Still”, 2025, a new installation by Nick Cave, will ...
08/31/2026

🍂 Fall exhibition announcement 🍂

On Saturday, September 19, “Louder Still”, 2025, a new installation by Nick Cave, will debut in Room 1.

Commissioned by Glenstone, "Louder Still" is site-specific and the artist’s largest multi-figure Soundsuit to date. The sculpture gathers eleven discrete forms joined by a monolithic textile adorned with hand-sewn buttons made from iridescent mother-of-pearl shells.

The oversized headpieces of each figure resemble gramophones or tuba horns, implying music and the sounds of protest, which Cave sees as integral to this body of work.

The artist conceived the installation to be site-specific for Room 1. Installed directly on the building's terrazzo floor, the artwork will invite visitors to experience the sculpture in 360 degrees.

🎨 Image 1: Nick Cave, "Louder Still" (detail), 2025. Mixed media including silver and yellow mother-of-pearl buttons, embroidery floss, upholstery fabric, armature, and mannequins. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery.

We're for multiple full-time positions with benefits, including: 💡Electrician🍴Café Attendants🥘Line Cook🚑EMT Security O...
08/31/2026

We're for multiple full-time positions with benefits, including:

💡Electrician
🍴Café Attendants
🥘Line Cook
🚑EMT Security Officer
🫧Facilities Attendant

✏️ Visit our careers page at glenstone.org/careers to learn even more and apply.

Step inside the pure imagination of Alex Da Corte. Room 6 in the Pavilions. 🎨 Artwork: “The Decorated Shed”, 2019 and “R...
08/29/2026

Step inside the pure imagination of Alex Da Corte. Room 6 in the Pavilions.

🎨 Artwork: “The Decorated Shed”, 2019 and “Rubber Pencil Devil (Hell House)”, 2022. © Alex Da Corte

“More than merely sentimental tributes, Marden’s titles reveal his insistence on lived experience as the wellspring for ...
08/28/2026

“More than merely sentimental tributes, Marden’s titles reveal his insistence on lived experience as the wellspring for his art. Each work is a quest to evoke, through abstract means, the emotions or sensations aroused by the memory of a particular encounter with a person, place, or thing.” — Emily Wei Rales, 2018 on Brice Marden

Currently on view in the Pavilions:
⚪“Moss Sutra with the Seasons”, 2010-2015


Currently on view in the Gallery:
⚪ “Nevis Letter #5 (To Sh*tao)", 2007-2009
⚪“Epitaph Painting 5", 1997-2001
⚪“Teddy’s Drawing", 1964

🎨 Images: © 2026 Estate of Brice Marden / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Photos 1-3: Ron Amstutz

08/27/2026

How does Glenstone select works for exhibitions? Why do you display minimal didactic wall texts?

You asked, and Yuri has the answers! Watch our with Glenstone’s Associate Curator.

08/22/2026

As summer winds down, we're saying farewell to our 2026 intern cohort. Thank you for all your hard work this summer and we wish you luck in the next steps of your professional and academic journeys!

08/21/2026

“With his unerring eye and relentless pursuit of perfection, he created a sublime architectural environment for Glenstone.”

-Architect Charles Gwathmey as described by Glenstone co-founder Mitchell P. Rales in “Glenstone The Inaugural Exhibition” publication, 2008.

08/20/2026

Glenstone is proud to be a partner, along with the Scotland Juneteenth Foundation, for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture event "Hometown Treasures".

Hidden in closets, basements, and forgotten boxes are objects that tell the story of your family — and of history itself. At Hometown Treasures: Capital Region you will have a chance to meet one-on-one with preservation specialists to learn how to preserve the items that matter most to your family – because every family has a story worth preserving. Learn more here: https://nmaahc.si.edu/events/series/hometown-treasures-capital-region

🗓️ We are looking forward to Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) Back to School Fair this Saturday, August 22! Stop b...
08/20/2026

🗓️ We are looking forward to Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) Back to School Fair this Saturday, August 22!

Stop by the Glenstone Museum table to learn more about our school-age offerings for middle schoolers and high schoolers. Our team will have activities and giveaways!

MCPS Back to School Fair
Richard Montgomery High School
250 Richard Montgomery Dr.
Rockville, MD
1p.m. – 4p.m.

🖼️ Images: Glenstone team members tabling at a recent community event; Students participating in scientific research in the restored Sandy Branch stream at Glenstone; students engaged in visits at Glenstone (inside and outside); Student observing and sketching in the Gallery building.

🎨 Image 3: Lee Krasner, "The Eye is the First Circle", 1960. © 2023 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Image 5: Multiple works by Ruth Asawa (left to right):
"Untitled (S.693, Hanging Six-Lobed, Two-Part, Discontinuous Surface with a Sphere in the First Lobe)", c. 1956.
"Untitled (S.335, Hanging Four-and-a-Half Open Hyperbolic Shapes that Pe*****te Each Other)", c. 1954.
"Untitled (S.531, Hanging Six-Lobed, Multi-Layered Interlocking Continuous Form)", c. 1950s, Early.
© 2023 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. Courtesy of David Zwirner.

“...The empty holes where faucets might go stare out like the wide eyes of two people buried up to their necks. Tying to...
08/16/2026

“...The empty holes where faucets might go stare out like the wide eyes of two people buried up to their necks. Tying together the themes of cleanliness and health, personal and social, innocence, bodiliness, and mortality, the sinks are resonant images during the AIDS crisis.”

-Matthew Weinstein, Artforum, 1990.

Sited along the Boardwalk on the Woodland Trail, Robert Gober’s sculpture “Two Partially Buried Sinks”, 1986–1987, sit through the seasons as grass grows and dies, as trees bud and change color, and as snow falls and melts. While less monumental in scale than some outdoor works, “Two Partially Buried Sinks”, it is no less ambitious in theme.

🎨 Artwork: “Two Partially Buried Sinks”, 1986-1987. © Robert Gober, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.

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12100 Glen Road
Potomac, MD
20854

Opening Hours

Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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(301) 983-5001

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