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Mattin Center
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218

The Mattin Center is located on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus at the intersection of North Charles Street and 33rd Street. The Mattin Center is a 53,000-square-foot modern, two-story, flat-roofed building surrounding a courtyard. The Center houses the Swirnow Theater, the Office of the Dean of Student Life, the Homewood Arts Workshop, Homewood Arts Programs, the JH Digital Media Center, two large art studio/classrooms, a dance studio, music rehearsal spaces and practice rooms, darkrooms, and meeting rooms and office space for student groups and student affairs staff.

Learn more about the Center online here.

From I-95 (southbound) or from I-695 (the Baltimore Beltway): Take the beltway toward Towson to exit 25. Take Charles Street south for about 7 miles (when Charles Street splits a block after Loyola College and Cold Spring Lane, take the right fork). After you cross University Parkway, the Homewood campus will be on your right. Continue southbound. Begin looking for parking along Charles Street or side streets closest to the pedestrian entrance of the Mattin Center which is at the intersection of Charles and 33rd streets.

From I-95 (northbound): Take exit 53 onto I-395 north toward downtown Baltimore, then take the exit to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and follow the directions from Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard below.

From Maryland 295 (the Baltimore-Washington Parkway): Entering Baltimore, the parkway becomes Russell Street. Stay on Russell Street until (with the new M&T Bank Stadium to your right and Oriole Park at Camden Yards looming before you) you reach the right-hand exit marked Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (look carefully for this; the signs are small). This exit will put you very briefly on a service road parallel to Russell Street. Stay to the left and take the ramp marked Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Follow the directions (below) from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

From Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard: Take King Boulevard north until it ends at Howard Street (remain in one of the middle lanes of MLK Boulevard to avoid a premature forced right or left turn). Turn left at Howard Street and proceed about 2 miles. At this point, you may either:
a) Turn right at 28th Street; follow 2 blocks to North Charles Street. Turn left. On street parking available along Charles St, and side streets closest to the intersection of Charles and 33rd Sts, site of the pedestrian entrance to the Mattin Center.
b) Proceed one block past 29th Street, turn left at the traffic light (just before the Baltimore Museum of Art) onto Wyman Park Drive. Enter campus at Wyman Park Drive; bear right behind Shriver Hall; turn left; bear right at dead end past Merrick Barn. Mattin Center (includes Swirnow Theater), last building on left, closest to Charles Street.

From the Jones Falls Expressway (I-83) southbound: Take the 28th Street exit and go left on 28th Street. Continue on 28th St. to North Charles Street. Turn left. On street parking is available along Charles Street and side streets closest to the intersection of Charles and 33rd streets, which is where the pedestrian entrance to the Mattin Center is situated.

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