This list of museums in Baltimore 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.
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 and Museum | Downtown Baltimore | Sports | 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 [1] |
Baltimore Clayworks | Mount Washington | Ceramics | Artists and student studios 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 tugboat Baltimore |
Baltimore Streetcar Museum | Charles Village | Railway | Historic trolleys and electric bus streetcars |
Carroll Mansion | Jonestown | Historic house | An 1811 mansion with changing art exhibits |
The Contemporary | Downtown Baltimore | Art | A nomadic, non-collecting art museum |
Cylburn Nature Museum | Cylburn | Natural history | Part of Cylburn Arboretum |
Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum | Downtown Baltimore | Biographical | Former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s |
Eubie Blake Cultural Center | Mount Vernon | Art | Celebrates African American visual and performing arts [2] |
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 | Maritime | Galleries and interactive learning centers about the role of African Americans in maritime history; operated by Living Classrooms [3] |
G. Krug & Son Ironworks and Museum | Downtown Baltimore | Industrial | Historic blacksmith shop established in 1810 |
Historic Ships in Baltimore | Inner Harbor | Maritime | Historic museum ships including the USS Constellation, the Chesapeake (LV-116), and the Seven Foot Knoll 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 | 5 alley houses where the Irish immigrants who worked for the adjoining B&O Railroad lived, project of the Railroad Historical District Corporation [4] |
Jewish Museum of Maryland | Jonestown | Ethnic - Jewish | Jewish history and culture in Maryland and beyond, tours of the Lloyd Street Synagogue |
Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum | Homewood | Archaeology | Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern antiquities |
Lovely Lane Museum & Archives | Barclay | Religious | Operated by the Baltimore-Washington Conference United Methodist Historical Society, history of Baltimore-Washington Conference, important Methodist ministers, bishops and memorabilia [5] |
Maryland Art Place | Downtown Baltimore | Art | Contemporary art exhibition gallery |
Maryland Center for History and Culture | Mount Vernon | History | Multiple exhibit spaces featuring the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, quilts, fashion, photography, furniture, and more. |
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 | Located in the Fifth Regiment Armory [6] |
Maryland Science Center | Federal Hill | Science | Displays include physical science, space, and the human body |
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 Slavic Museum | Fell's Point | Ethnic - Slavic | Polish and Slavic history museum |
Peale Museum | Downtown Baltimore | Community & culture | |
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 | 1765 brick house, operated by the Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells Point |
School 33 Art Center | Federal Hill | Art | Contemporary visual art [7] |
Star Spangled Banner Flag House and 1812 Museum | Little Italy | Historic house | House where the "Star-Spangled Banner" flag 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 |
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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