The Holiday Festival of Trains: A B&O Christmas Tradition for Kids
For generations of Baltimore kids, Christmas started at the B&O. The Holiday Festival of Trains fills the B&O Railroad Museum each December with model railroad...
Month : October 2026
All Aboard THE POLAR EXPRESS at the B&O Railroad Museum
The conductor is waiting, the hot chocolate is real, and the train is bound for the North Pole. The B&O Railroad Museum’s THE POLAR EXPRESS...
Hands-On Science for Kids at the Maryland Science Center
The Maryland Science Center’s secret weapon is that almost everything begs to be touched. On the Inner Harbor’s south shore, kids excavate dinosaur bones in...
Port Discovery: Baltimore’s Children’s Museum Inside a Power Plant
It might be the most inspired reuse in Baltimore: the cavernous old Fish Market building on the harbor, reborn as Port Discovery Children’s Museum —...
A Family Day at the National Aquarium: Sharks, Rainforests and Dolphins
Baltimore’s National Aquarium is engineered for family awe. Start at Blacktip Reef, where sharks, rays and a rescued sea turtle named Calypso glide through a...
Holly-Days Weekends Bring the Holidays to The Maryland Zoo
The Maryland Zoo celebrates the season the animal way: Holly-Days, its series of festive themed weekends, returns to Druid Hill Park on weekends in late...
Maryland Wilderness: A Children’s Journey Through the State’s Wild Side
The best children’s zoo areas don’t just show animals — they put kids inside the story. Maryland Wilderness at The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore sends...
Penguin Coast: Meet North America’s Celebrated African Penguin Colony
They waddle, they porpoise, they steal every show. Penguin Coast at The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is home to one of the largest African penguin...
A Family Guide to The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
One of America’s oldest zoos is also one of its most charming family days out. The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, founded in 1876 in leafy...
American Visionary Art Museum: America’s Home for Self-Taught Genius
There is no museum in America quite like AVAM. The American Visionary Art Museum, perched below Federal Hill at the harbor’s south shore, is the...
