Homewood Area

Baltimore Museum of Art  The BMA is a world-class museum with a permanent collection of more than 130,000 works of art.  The Cone collection includes works by Matisse, Picasso, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.  The first floor of the museum is filled with furniture and miniatures, as well as the arts of Asia, Africa, and Oceania.  The newer wing houses permanent collections of modern painting and sculpture as well as the second-largest collection of Andy Warhol paintings on regular display in the United States.

Evergreen House  In the mid-19th century, when railroads were king, Baltimore's Garrett family ruled the rails. Evergreen, their home for two generations (from 1878-1942), is a superb example of Gilded Age architecture set on 26 landscaped acres in Baltimore.

Homewood House Museum Homewood House, built by Charles Carroll of Carrollton for his son and daughter-in-law, provides an intimate look at life in early-19th-century Baltimore.

Inner Harbor Area

American Visionary Art Museum The Visionary highlights art by self-taught artists.  The exhibit, Home and Beast, runs through September.

Babe Ruth/Baltimore Orioles Museum/Sports Legends at Camden Yards George Herman "Babe" Ruth was born February 6, 1895 in a Baltimore row house just a short hop from Camden Yards.  The home is now preserved and features exhibits on the life and times of this baseball legend. Located at the Camden Station, the Sports Legend Museum contains 22,000 square feet of artifacts and interactive exhibits that tell the rich history of the Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Ravens, Baltimore Colts, and other Maryland sports memories.

B & O Railroad Museum The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum houses the oldest, most historic and most comprehensive American railroad collection in the world.

Geppi's Entertainment Museum  Occupying the second floor of Camden Station above the Sports legends Museums, the museum is an unprecedented journey through American history with a focus on pop culture. Toys and comic characters such as Superman, Supergirl, Batman, Howdy Doody, and Betty shaped us as children through a magical blend of entertainment and education. Tracing popular culture memories and icons from the late 1700s to the present day, the museum is dedicated to presenting the story of popular culture in an entertaining and educational fashion.

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture

The Lewis Museum is the largest African American museum on the east coast and celebrates more than 350 years of Maryland African-American history and culture.  The current exhibition, running February 3 through October 28 is At Freedom's Door: Challenging Slavery in Maryland.

Mount Vernon Area

The Baltimore Basilica Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the Basilica was thefirst great metropolitan cathedral and major religious building constructed in America after the adoption of the Constitution. The Basilica is the site of the country's first Catholic archdiocese. Considered one of the finest examples of 19th-century architecture, it reopened after extensive restoration in November 2006.

The Contemporary Museum The Contemporary explores the art and culture of our time by presenting new art, new ideas and new creative processes. The exhibit St. Cecilia by Chicago-based artist Joseph Grigely will run May 5 to August 19, 2007, and will feature a newly commissioned video installation created in collaboration with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Named after the patron saint of music, this new work will feature footage of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society Chamber Choir singing beloved Christmas carols that have been re-written by Grigely to reflect the misunderstanding and confusions of language that he experiences everyday as a deaf person.

Enoch Pratt Free Library in 1882, Quaker philanthropist Enoch Pratt gave Baltimore money to establish a central library and four branch libraries.  The present central branch on Cathedral Street opened in 1930.  It's home to the Maryland Room which contains vertical files, photographs, prints, maps and ephemera documenting the state's history; a Special Collections department, and an African-American department.

George Peabody Library  Founded by philanthropist George Peabody in 1857 as "an extensive library, to be well furnished in every department of knowledge," the Peabody Library today contains over 300,000 volumes including among its strengths 15th-century books, Greek and Latin classics, British and American history and literature, the history of science, exploration and travel, and an extensive map collection.  Designed by Baltimore architect Edmund G. Lind, the library's magnificent interior features an atrium surrounding by five tiers of ornamental cast-iron balconies.  The exhibition galleries will display Eyre Apparent, an exhibition celebrating Charlotte Bronte's classic novel. 

Maryland Historical Society  The Maryland Historical Society houses an incredible collection of treasures. From 18th and 19th-century paintings and silver to thousands of manuscripts, photos, prints and ephemera, to 20th century objects of everyday life, the collection celebrates Maryland's rich and diverse history.

Walters Art Museum The Walters Art Museum  is internationally renowned for its collection of art, which presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Deco jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces.  The exhibition running June 15 through August 26, 2007 is titled Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, and celebrates the distinctive and beautiful quilts made by African American women living in the isolated community of Gee's Bend, Alabama.