the 210,000-square-foot museum is distinguished by a neoclassical building designed in the 1920s by renowned american architect john russell pope and two landscaped gardens with 20th-century sculpture. the museum is located between charles village, to the east, remington, to the south, hampden, to the west; and south of the roland park neighborhoods, immediately adjacent to the homewood campus of johns hopkins university, though the museum is an independent institution and not affiliated with the university.