The Walters Art Museum was established in 1934 “for the benefit of the public.” Originally called the Walters Art Gallery, the museum started when Henry Walters (1848–1931) bequeathed to the City of Baltimore an extensive art collection begun by his father, William T. Walters (1819–1894), two buildings, and an endowment. The museum’s foundational art collection consisted of 22’000 objects with an unusually rich concentration of medieval manuscripts. The collection also includes masterworks of ancient Egypt, Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi, medieval ivories, Renaissance bronzes, Old Master European and 19th-century paintings, Chinese ceramics and bronzes, Art Deco jewelry, and ancient Near East, Mesopotamian, or ancient Middle East items. A “Chamber of Wonders” recreates an 17th-century collector's cabinet with natural as well as artistic specimens. Located in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood, the Walters is free for all. The museum’s present campus includes five historic buildings and 36,000 art objects. In 2012, the museum released nearly 20’000 of its own images of its collections on a Creative Commons license. Its collection of stained glass includes not only 13 Swiss panels, but large-scale 13th century French panels acquired by the founder from the Abbey of Saint-Germain