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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.

Museums

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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Defunct museums

  • American Dime Museum - museum of curiosities, closed in 2006
  • Antique Toy Museum, Baltimore - closed in 2012
  • B. Olive Cole Pharmacy Museum - was located in the Kelly building at the Maryland Pharmacists Association
  • Baltimore City Life Museums - consortium of historic homes, building and sites (folded 1997)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Geppi's Entertainment Museum on the second floor of Camden Street Station - 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.
  • 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
  • National Pinball Museum - closed 2013, collection sold off in March 2014
  • Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards, located 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

  • American Visionary Arts Museum, Baltimore (ca. 2005)

    American Visionary Art Museum

  • Roundhouse

    B & O Railroad Museum

  • 1baltomuseum

    Baltimore Museum of Art

  • Baltimore554

    Baltimore Streetcar Museum

  • PoeHouse-Baltimore

    Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

  • JHU Homewood

    Homewood Museum

  • Mdsci

    Maryland Science Center

  • Mount Clare, Bayard & South Monroe Streets, Carroll Park (Baltimore, Independent City, Maryland)

    Mount Clare

  • SportsLegendsMuseumCamdenYards

    Former Sports Legends Museum (2005–2015) at historic Camden Street Station of the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

  • Flag House, 844 East Pratt & Albemarle Streets (Baltimore, Independent City, Maryland)

    Star Spangled Banner Flag House and 1812 Museum - East Pratt and Albemarle Streets - home of flagmaker Mary Young Pickersgill of the Star-Spangled Banner flag

  • USS-Constellation-Szmurlo

    USS Constellation

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