Baltimore

Free admission and a collection of 95,000+ works including the world's largest public holding of Henri Matisse, plus contemporary art and outdoor sculpture gardens.

A three-story hands-on children's museum in the historic Fish Market building on Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

The Smithsonian-affiliated museum documenting the art, history, and culture of African Americans in Maryland from the 1600s to today.

The nation's first purpose-built museum (1814), reborn as a community museum telling Baltimore's stories through art, music, and oral history.

The first wax museum of African American history in the country, with more than 100 life-size figures documenting Black history from ancient Africa to today.

A national museum dedicated to self-taught, intuitive artistry, at the base of Federal Hill by the Inner Harbor.

A floating museum of four historic vessels — USS Constellation, USS Torsk, USCGC Taney, and Lightship Chesapeake — plus the Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse.

Three floors of hands-on exhibits, an IMAX theater, and the Davis Planetarium on Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Housed in a former oyster cannery on the Baltimore harbor, telling the stories of the workers, innovators, and industries that built modern America.

A free museum with a global collection spanning 7,000 years — ancient Egypt, medieval Europe, Islamic art, Asian art, and more — assembled by Henry and William Walters.

Restored Baltimore streetcars operating on a demonstration line, with exhibits on urban transit history.

A Gilded Age Garrett family estate with fine and decorative arts, rare books and a private theatre.

The star fort whose 1814 defense inspired The Star-Spangled Banner, with a visitor center and living history.

A Federal-period Johns Hopkins house museum interpreting early 19th-century Maryland life.

Museum of Jewish life in Maryland, including two historic synagogues on its Baltimore campus.

Founded in 1844, the state's leading history museum and library, with over seven million items.

Baltimore's oldest colonial structure, the 1760s Carroll family plantation house in Carroll Park.

The 1793 home of Mary Pickersgill, who sewed the flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814.

The rowhouse where George Herman "Babe" Ruth was born in 1895, restored as a museum to baseball's greatest player, two blocks from Oriole Park.

One of the most comprehensive collections of American railroad artifacts, on the birthplace of American railroading.

The modest brick rowhouse where a young Edgar Allan Poe lived in the early 1830s, now a museum devoted to his life and legacy.