AVAM with Kids: Baltimore’s Most Imaginative Family Museum Day
If your kids think museums are quiet, the American Visionary Art Museum will fix that in the first five minutes. AVAM’s mirrored mosaics, spinning whirligigs,...
Month : October 2026
Family Day at Fort McHenry: Junior Rangers and the Big Flag
History lands differently when you’re nine and holding a flag corner. Family days at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine turn the birthplace of...
A Family Day in Patterson Park: Pagoda Climbs, Pools and Playgrounds
East Baltimore families have a standing weekend plan: Patterson Park. Start with the Pagoda climb (Sunday afternoons in season, free) for the view that makes...
Storytimes and Wonder at the Enoch Pratt Free Library
Baltimore’s grand public library is also its grandest free children’s venue. The Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Central Library on Cathedral Street — a marble landmark...
Family Days at the BMA: Free Art for Baltimore Families
The Baltimore Museum of Art builds its calendar around families — and everything starts with the best four-letter word in museums: free. Beyond free admission...
Free Family Fun at the Walters: Drop-In Art Making and Discovery
The Walters Art Museum has a standing invitation for Baltimore families: come make something. The museum’s free family programs — Saturday drop-in art making in...
Cylburn Arboretum: 200 Acres of Gardens and Trails in North Baltimore
North Baltimore hides a country estate for everyone: Cylburn Arboretum, 207 acres of gardens, woodlands and trails around an 1889 stone mansion — and it’s...
The Rawlings Conservatory: A Tropical Escape Inside Druid Hill Park
Baltimore keeps a rainforest in a glass palace. The Howard Peter Rawlings Conservatory (1888) — the second-oldest steel-frame glass conservatory still standing in America —...
Miracle on 34th Street: Hampden’s Legendary Block of Lights
One block in Hampden out-Christmases them all. The Miracle on 34th Street — the 700 block of West 34th Street, where neighbors have covered their...
Christmas Village in Baltimore: A German Holiday Market at the Inner Harbor, November 22–December 24
Baltimore’s Inner Harbor smells of bratwurst and glühwein again: Christmas Village in Baltimore returns to West Shore Park from November 22 through December 24, 2026...
