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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art | Visionary art | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | Ceramics | Artists and student studios with public exhibition gallery | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Railway | Historic trolleys and electric bus streetcars | ||
| Historic house | An 1811 mansion with changing art exhibits | ||
| Art | A nomadic, non-collecting art museum | ||
| Natural history | Part of Cylburn Arboretum | ||
| Biographical | Former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s | ||
| Eubie Blake Cultural Center | Art | Celebrates African American visual and performing arts [2] | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | Maritime | Galleries and interactive learning centers about the role of African Americans in maritime history; operated by Living Classrooms [3] | |
| Industrial | Historic blacksmith shop established in 1810 | ||
| Maritime | Historic museum ships including the USS Constellation, the Chesapeake (LV-116), and the Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse | ||
| Historic house | 1801 Federal-period brick house with 19th-century-period rooms, part of Johns Hopkins University | ||
| Irish Railroad Workers Museum | 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] | |
| Ethnic - Jewish | Jewish history and culture in Maryland and beyond, tours of the Lloyd Street Synagogue | ||
| Archaeology | Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern antiquities | ||
| Lovely Lane Museum & Archives | Religious | Operated by the Baltimore-Washington Conference United Methodist Historical Society, history of Baltimore-Washington Conference, important Methodist ministers, bishops and memorabilia[5] | |
| Art | Contemporary art exhibition gallery | ||
| Maryland Center for History and Culture | History | Multiple exhibit spaces featuring the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, quilts, fashion, photography, furniture, and more. | |
| 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 | ||
| Military | Located in the Fifth Regiment Armory[6] | ||
| Science | Displays include physical science, space, and the human body | ||
| Historic house | Located in Seton Hill Historic District, house where Elizabeth Ann Seton founded a school for girls | ||
| Historic house | Mid 18th-century plantation house, operated by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America | ||
| Wax | Features important African American and black Maryland figures | ||
| Medical | Dental history, oral health and dentistry professionals | ||
| Ethnic - Slavic | Polish and Slavic history museum | ||
| Community & culture | |||
| Industrial | Tower used to produce lead shots, tours operated by the Carroll Mansion | ||
| Children's | |||
| African American | Shows the struggles for self-determination made by African American Marylanders | ||
| Historic house | 1765 brick house, operated by the Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells Point | ||
| Art | Contemporary visual art[7] | ||
| Historic house | House where the "Star-Spangled Banner" flag was sewn; exhibits on War of 1812, period rooms | ||
| Nursing | History of the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore | ||
| Art | 18th- & 19th-century art, Ancient Americas, Ancient Art, Asian, Islamic, Medieval, manuscripts & rare books, Renaissance & Baroque art | ||