List of museums in Baltimore

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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.

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NameNeighborhoodArea of studySummary
American Visionary Art Museum Federal Hill Art Visionary art
B&O Railroad Museum Washington Village RailwayCollection 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 SportsLife & 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 CeramicsArtists and student studios with public exhibition gallery
Baltimore Museum of Art Homewood ArtOver 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 IndustryExhibits 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 RailwayHistoric trolleys and electric bus streetcars
Carroll Mansion Jonestown Historic houseAn 1811 mansion with changing art exhibits
The Contemporary Downtown Baltimore ArtA nomadic, non-collecting art museum
Cylburn Nature Museum Cylburn Natural historyPart of Cylburn Arboretum
Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum Downtown Baltimore BiographicalFormer home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s
Eubie Blake Cultural Center Mount Vernon ArtCelebrates African American visual and performing arts [2]
Evergreen Museum & Library Homewood Historic house48-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 MilitaryVisitor 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 MaritimeGalleries 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 IndustrialHistoric blacksmith shop established in 1810
Historic Ships in Baltimore Inner Harbor MaritimeHistoric museum ships including the USS Constellation, the Chesapeake (LV-116), and the Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse
Homewood Museum Homewood Historic house1801 Federal-period brick house with 19th-century-period rooms, part of Johns Hopkins University
Irish Railroad Workers Museum Hollins Market Historic house5 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 - JewishJewish history and culture in Maryland and beyond, tours of the Lloyd Street Synagogue
Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum Homewood ArchaeologyAncient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern antiquities
Lovely Lane Museum & Archives Barclay ReligiousOperated 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 ArtContemporary art exhibition gallery
Maryland Center for History and Culture Mount Vernon HistoryMultiple 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 ArtThree 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 MilitaryLocated in the Fifth Regiment Armory [6]
Maryland Science Center Federal Hill ScienceDisplays include physical science, space, and the human body
Mother Seton House Mount Vernon Historic houseLocated in Seton Hill Historic District, house where Elizabeth Ann Seton founded a school for girls
Mount Clare Museum House Carrollton Ridge Historic houseMid 18th-century plantation house, operated by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
National Great Blacks In Wax Museum Oliver WaxFeatures important African American and black Maryland figures
National Museum of Dentistry Downtown Baltimore MedicalDental history, oral health and dentistry professionals
National Slavic Museum Fell's Point Ethnic - SlavicPolish and Slavic history museum
Peale Museum Downtown Baltimore Community & culture
Phoenix Shot Tower Downtown Baltimore IndustrialTower 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 AmericanShows the struggles for self-determination made by African American Marylanders
Robert Long House Fell's Point Historic house1765 brick house, operated by the Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells Point
School 33 Art Center Federal Hill ArtContemporary visual art [7]
Star Spangled Banner Flag House and 1812 Museum Little Italy Historic houseHouse 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 NursingHistory of the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
Walters Art Museum Mount Vernon Art18th- & 19th-century art, Ancient Americas, Ancient Art, Asian, Islamic, Medieval, manuscripts & rare books, Renaissance & Baroque art

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  2. ↑ "Eubie Blake Cultural Center" . Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park". livingclassrooms.org. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
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