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,...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
