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This was radically different from the old visitor center, which was inside an antiquated modified construction trailer. The new 8,000-square-foot (740 m 2) Baltimore Visitor Center is located next to the Light Street Pavilion of Harborplace and has a unique design. It cost $4.5 million to construct.
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: Fort McHenry: Locust Point: Military: Visitor center houses exhibits about the history of the fort, the War of 1812 and the Star Spangled Banner
Visitors center contains wildlife exhibits, bird-watching cameras and viewing areas Bob's Vintage Museum: Columbia: Howard: Central: Transportation: historic BMW motorcycles, parts and accessories, trophies, collectibles, BMW toys and scale models, advertising Boonsborough Museum of History: Boonsboro: Washington: Western: Local history
The Baltimore "festival marketplaces" became an "architectural prototype, despite opening several years after Quincy Market," attracting both local residents and out-of-town visitors, and spawning a series of other similar projects: Waterside in Norfolk, Portside in Toledo, and even non-waterfront projects like Philadelphia's Gallery at Market ...
Today, the Harborplace shopping pavilions (1980), the glass walled Baltimore Visitors Center (2010) are located here along with the Maryland Science Center, founded 1797 was relocated here on the Light Street waterfront in 1976, and the former McCormick & Company offices and manufacturing plant for spices. flavorings and seasonings between 1889 ...
The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, including William Thompson Walters and his son Henry Walters.
A museum store offers toys, books, DVDs, and other railroad-related items. The museum and station were designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1961. [ 1 ] In 2008, the museum won three awards in Nickelodeon 's Parents' Picks Awards in the categories of Best Museum for Little Kids, Best Indoor Playspace for Little Kids, and Best ...
[5] [6] Her then-husband, LeRoy Hoffberger, a Baltimore lawyer, businessman, and AVAM co-founder, sold items from his collection of German Expressionist art to fund the museum. [7] With the support of her friends and family, Hoffberger petitioned the city of Baltimore and was awarded two buildings near the city's Inner Harbor worth $1.1 million.