This list of museums in

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encompasses

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s, defined for this context as institutions (including

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s, government entities, and private

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es) 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.,

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s) are not included.

Museums

Defunct Museums

American Dime Museum The American Dime Museum (ADM) was co-founded in Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, by artist and antique dealer Richard Horne and James Taylor (author), James Taylor, writer and publisher of the sideshow journal ''Shocked and ...

, Baltimore, museum of curiosities * Antique Toy Museum, Baltimore, closed in 2012 * Bagpipe Museum, Ellicott City * Brannock Maritime Museum, Cambridge - collections merged with Richardson Maritime Museum in 2004 * Christian Heritage Museum, Hagerstown * Contemporary Museum,

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, closed in 2012 * Fells Point Maritime Museum, Baltimore, collections now at

Maryland Center for History and Culture The Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), formerly the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS), . founded on March 1, 1844, is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland. The organization "collects, preserves, and inte ...

* Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting, Baltimore, 2002, collection now at Baltimore Museum of Industry, * Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health, New Carrollton, closed in 1998, now online only, *

National Children's Museum The National Children's Museum is a children's museum and Science museum#Science centre, science center in downtown Washington, D.C. It is intended to serve children up to age 12 and their families through interactive exhibits exploring science, t ...

was located in

National Harbor National Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located along the Potomac River near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and just south of Washington, D.C. It originated as a multi-use waterfront deve ...

from 2012 to 2015 *

Peale Museum The Peale, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is Baltimore's Community Museum. Its mission is to evolve the role of museums in society by providing local creators and storytellers with the space and support the need to realize a complete and accessi ...

, Baltimore - holdings transferred to Maryland Historical Society in 1999 * PlayWiseKids, Columbia * Presidential Pet Museum, moved from Annapolis to President's Park,

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* Queen City Transportation Museum, Cumberland, closed in 2011 * Ripken Museum,

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, memorabilia about baseball player

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and family, baseball memorabilia * Townsend House & Pullen Museum, Catonsville, closed in 2021 when the Catonsville Historical Society dissolved and sold the building. *

U.S. Army Ordnance Museum The United States Army Ordnance Training Support Facility (formerly known as the U.S. Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center and U.S. Army Ordnance Museum) artifacts are used to train and educate logistic soldiers. It re-located to Fort Lee ( ...

, closed Maryland museum location in 2010, moving to

Fort Lee, Virginia Fort Lee, in Prince George County, Virginia, United States, is a United States Army post and headquarters of the United States Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)/ Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE), the U.S. Army Quartermaster Sc ...

, outdoor exhibits still on display * Waters House History Center,

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, closed in 2010 * Wheels of Yesterday, Ocean City, closed in 2012

References

External links

''Maryland Manual On-Line'': Maryland at a Glance: Museums
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Museums In Maryland *

Museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

Museums

Defunct Museums

See also

References

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