This list of museums in Baltimore museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, 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.

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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 ...

- 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 Inner Harbor East, now more recently referred to more commonly as simply as Harbor East, is a relatively new mixed-use development project in Baltimore, Maryland, United States along the northern shoreline of the Northwest Branch of the Pataps ...

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 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 ...

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 Geppi's Entertainment Museum was a 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) privately owned pop culture museum located at historic Camden Station at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland. The museum chronicled the history of pop culture in America from the ...

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 Baltimore Museum of Industry is a museum in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Located in an old cannery, the museum has exhibits on various types of manufacturing and industry from the early 20th century. There are several hands-on sections with ...

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 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

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

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File:Flag House, 844 East Pratt & Albemarle Streets (Baltimore, Independent City, Maryland).jpg, Star Spangled Banner Flag House and 1812 Museum - East Pratt and Albemarle Streets - home of flagmaker

Mary Young Pickersgill Mary Pickersgill (born Mary Young; February 12, 1776 – October 4, 1857) was the maker of the Star Spangled Banner Flag hoisted over Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. The daughter of another noted flag maker, Reb ...

of the

Star-Spangled Banner "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", a poem written on September 14, 1814, by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bo ...

flag File:USS-Constellation-Szmurlo.jpg, USS ''Constellation''

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