The Walters Art Museum is using the start of construction work on Hackerman House to outline a new vision for its Mount Vernon campus, from the way directors refer to certain buildings to what they display inside.

Museum director Julia Marciari-Alexander today led a two-hour tour of the Hackerman House construction site at 1 W. Mount Vernon Place and outlined key points of the renovation project and the larger vision behind it.

One of the big ideas, Marciari-Alexander said, is for the Walters to treat the buildings on its campus with as much care and sensitivity as all the other objects it conserves.

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