List Of Museums In Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland is not only the center of business and higher education in Maryland, but it is also its cultural center. Baltimore City is where most of Maryland's main cultural institutions like Center Stage, the Lyric and the Hippodrome Theatre are located within the city limits. A majority of the museums in Maryland are also located here.
This list of museums in Baltimore encompasses museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
See also List of museums in Maryland.
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Name | Neighborhood | Area of study | Summary |
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American Visionary Art Museum | Federal Hill | Art | Visionary art |
B&O Railroad Museum | Washington Village | Railway | Collection includes 250 pieces of railroad rolling stock, 15,000 artifacts, an outdoor G-scale layout, an indoor HO scale model, and a wooden model train |
Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum | Downtown Baltimore | Sports | website, life & times of Babe Ruth, Baltimore’s native son who became America’s first sports celebrity & an international icon, also the official Museum of the Baltimore Orioles and the archives of the Baltimore Colts and Johnny Unitas |
Baltimore Clayworks | Sabina Mattefeldt | Art | website, ceramics art center with public exhibition gallery |
Baltimore Museum of Art | Homewood | Art | Over 90,000 works including African, American, Ancient Americas, Antioch Mosaics, Asian, Contemporary, European, Modern, Native American, Pacific Islands, prints, drawings & photographs, sculpture gardens, textiles |
Baltimore Museum of Industry | Federal Hill | Industry | Exhibits highlight Baltimore and Maryland's companies and industries, including a cannery, a 1900 garment loft and machine shop, a print shop, Dr. Bunting's Pharmacy (where Noxzema was invented) and the food industry (McCormick, Domino Sugar, Esskay); also home to the Steam Tug Baltimore |
Baltimore Streetcar Museum | Charles Village | Railway | Historic trolleys and electric bus streetcars |
Baltimore Tattoo Museum | Art | website, history of electric tattooing in America | |
Carroll Mansion | Jonestown | Historic house | 1811 mansion with changing art exhibits |
Cylburn Nature Museum | Cylburn | Natural history | Part of Cylburn Arboretum |
Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum | Biographical | Former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s, currently closed | |
Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center | Mount Vernon | Art | website, celebrates African American visual and performing arts |
Evergreen Museum & Library | Homewood | Historic house | 48 room Gilded Age mansion with exhibits of paintings, decorative arts, rare books, philanthropy, Baltimore's railroad history and more; operated by Johns Hopkins University |
Fort McHenry | Locust Point | Military | Visitor center houses exhibits about the history of the fort, the War of 1812 and the Star Spangled Banner |
Frederick Douglass Isaac Myers Maritime Park | Fell's Point | Multiple | website, permanent and temporary galleries and interactive learning centers about art, history and maritime history |
Geppi's Entertainment Museum | Downtown Baltimore | Media | Comics books, toys, posters, toys, collectibles from movies, television, radio, computer games |
Historic Ships in Baltimore | Downtown Baltimore | Maritime | Historic museum ships including the USS Constellation (1854) and a lighthouse |
Homewood Museum | Homewood | Historic house | 1801 Federal-period brick house with 19th-century-period rooms, part of Johns Hopkins University |
Irish Railroad Workers Museum | Hollins Market | Historic house | website, 5 alley houses where the Irish immigrants who worked for the adjoining B&O Railroad lived, project of the Railroad Historical District Corporation |
Jewish Museum of Maryland | Jonestown | Ethnic - Jewish | Jewish history and culture in Maryland and beyond, tours of the Lloyd Street Synagogue |
Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame | Homewood | Hall of fame - sports | History of the game of lacrosse |
Lovely Lane Museum & Archives | Barclay | Religious | website, operated by the Baltimore-Washington Conference United Methodist Historical Society, history of Baltimore-Washington Conference, important Methodist ministers, bishops and memorabilia |
Maryland Art Place | Downtown Baltimore | Art | Contemporary art exhibition gallery |
Maryland Historical Society Museum | Mount Vernon | History | Collections of Maryland art, 19th-century Maryland painted and inlaid furniture, silver and quilts, costumes, ceramics, dolls and toys |
Maryland Institute College of Art Galleries | Bolton Hill | Art | Three major gallery spaces mount curated exhibitions by outside artists and exhibitions of faculty and student work: the Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries in the Fox Building and the Pinkard Gallery in the Bunting Center; also several galleries for student art |
Maryland Museum of Military History | Baltimore | Military | Website, located in the Fifth Regiment Armory |
Maryland Science Center | Federal Hill | Science | Displays include physical science, space, Earth science, the human body and blue crabs that live in the Chesapeake Bay |
Mother Seton House | Mount Vernon | Historic house | Located in Seton Hill Historic District, house where Elizabeth Ann Seton founded a school for girls |
Mount Clare Museum House | Carrollton Ridge | Historic house | Mid 18th-century plantation house, operated by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America |
National Great Blacks In Wax Museum | Oliver | Wax | Features important African American and black Maryland figures |
National Museum of Dentistry | Downtown Baltimore | Medical | Dental history, oral health and dentistry professionals |
National Pinball Museum | Downtown Baltimore | Amusement | website, pinball machines |
Phoenix Shot Tower | Downtown Baltimore | Industrial | Tower used to produce lead shots, tours operated by the Carroll Mansion |
Port Discovery | Downtown Baltimore | Children's | |
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture | Little Italy | African American | Shows the struggles for self-determination made by African American Marylanders |
Robert Long House | Fell's Point | Historic house | website, 1765 brick house, operated by the Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells Point |
School 33 Art Center | Federal Hill | Art | website, contemporary visual art |
Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards | Downtown Baltimore | Sports | Exhibits on the Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Ravens, Baltimore Colts, University of Maryland, Baltimore Elite Giants, Baltimore Black Sox, Baltimore Blast and other Maryland sports memories |
Star Spangled Banner Flag House and 1812 Museum | Little Italy | Historic house | House where the "Star Spangled Banner" was sewn; exhibits on War of 1812, period rooms |
University of Maryland School of Nursing Living History Museum | Downtown Baltimore | Nursing | History of the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, website |
Walters Art Museum | Mount Vernon | Art | 18th- & 19th-century art, Ancient Americas, Ancient Art, Asian, Islamic, Medieval, manuscripts & rare books, Renaissance & Baroque Art |
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