List of museums in Baltimore

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.

Museums

Name	Neighborhood	Area of study	Summary
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 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	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, currently closed
Eubie Blake 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
Historic Ships in Baltimore	Downtown Baltimore	Maritime	Historic museum ships including the USS Constellation 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
Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum	Homewood	Archaeology	Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern antiquities
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	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	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 Slavic Museum	Fell's Point	Ethnic - Slavic	Polish and Slavic history museum
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	website, contemporary visual art
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
System Source Computer Museum	Hunt Valley	Computer History	website, collection includes computers, calculators, phones, and more.
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

Defunct museums

• American Dime Museum - museum of curiosities, closed in 2006[1][2]
• Antique Toy Museum, Baltimore, closed in 2012[3][4]
• B. Olive Cole Pharmacy Museum - was located in the Kelly building at the Maryland Pharmacists Association[5]
• Baltimore Clayworks, ceramics art center in Mount Washington with public exhibition gallery - closed in 2017 but plans to reopen[6]
• Baltimore Public Works Museum in the old Eastern Avenue Sewage Pumping Station of 1910 on the east bank of the Jones Falls by Pier 6 and Harbor East area, in the Inner Harbor - closed temporarily in 2010 by the City D.P.W.
• Contemporary Museum on West Centre Street and Park Avenue in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood on Cathedral Hill, closed in 2012[7]
• Fells Point Maritime Museum on Thames Street in the Fells Point waterfront community, opened 2004 by the Maryland Historical Society to exhibit its George Radcliffe Maritime Collection extensive but previously hidden in the basement level of the Md.H.S. Monument Street galleries - closed in 2007 with collections returned to Monument Street in Mount Vernon-Belvedere.[8]
• Geppi's Entertainment Museum - closed in 2018
• Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting - Closed 2002, collection now at Baltimore Museum of Industry on Francis Scott Key Highway near Federal Hill.[9][10]
• Museum of Baltimore Legal History - established 1990s in former Orphans Court chambers at the 1896-1900 Clarence Mitchell Baltimore City Courthouse between North Calvert and Saint Paul Streets - open for Courthouse visitors intermittently - historical artifacts/exhibits of Baltimore’s Bench and Bar, managed by the Baltimore Courthouse and Law Museum Foundation[11]
• National Pinball Museum - 2014, collection sold off in March 2014[12]
• Peale Museum / Baltimore City Life Museums - Originally established in old historic Rembrandt Peale museum building of 1814 - former Baltimore City Hall, (1830-1875) - Renovated and opened 1931 as Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore - absorbed 1980s into Baltimore City Life Museums system - Closed 1997 during Baltimore City's Bicentennial celebration - holdings/collections/exhibits transferred to Maryland Historical Society in 1999[13]
• Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards, opened inside historic Camden Street Station of 1857-1865 for the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as their main terminal and headquarters. Renovated/restored exterior in 1992 as part of adjacent Camden Yards sports complex of stadiums - Opened 2005 as sports museum for Maryland by the nearby Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum on Emory Street - closed in 2015

Gallery

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  American Visionary Art Museum
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  B & O Railroad Museum
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  Baltimore Museum of Art
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  Baltimore Streetcar Museum
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  Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum
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  Homewood Museum
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  Maryland Science Center
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  Mount Clare
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  former Sports Legends Museum at historic Camden Street Station (1857–65) of the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - open 2005-2015
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  Star Spangled Banner Flag House and 1812 Museum - East Pratt and Albermarle Streets - home of flagmaker Mary Young Pickersgill of the Star-Spangled Banner flag
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  USS U.S.S.

See also

• List of museums in Maryland

References

1. http://www.acurse.com/hunt_dimemuseum.html American Dime Museum - description and photos
2. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7622218 NPR, All Things Considered, February 27, 2007
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2014-08-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Antique Toy Museum, accessed 11/4/2012
4. "Toy Story". Baltimore Sun. April 25, 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
5. "Bessie Olive Cole". Marland Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved 4 January 2018. The B. Olive Cole Pharmacy Museum was established by the Maryland Pharmacists Association in Honor of Dr. B. Olive Cole, Professor Emerita of Pharmacy Administration, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
6. "Baltimore Clayworks to reopen with new board, old debt". The Baltimore Sun. September 27, 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
7. http://www.contemporary.org/ Contemporary Museum Baltimore, accessed 10/21/2012
8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2013-02-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Maryland Historical Society: Fells Point Maritime Collection
9. http://www.bulbcollector.com/article002.html Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting - information about museum founder and the museum
10. http://www.angelfire.com/pe/pasttech/tour.html Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting - photos
11. http://www.baltocts.sailorsite.net/about/courthouseguide.pdf
12. http://nationalpinballmuseum.org
13. "Peale/Baltimore City Life Museum Photograph Collection". Maryland Historical Society. Retrieved 4 January 2018.