Museum Mondays
Museum Mondays: Wyeth Foundation for American Art Lecture
Monday, November 18th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Art Lecture
When: November 20th, 2013 4:30-6:00pm
Where: National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium
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Museum Mondays: Mummies of the Whole World
Monday, November 11th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Mummy Exhibition
Where: Maryland Science Center
When: November 5th 2013 to January 19th, 2014
Inside every mummy is a story waiting to be told. Head on down to the Maryland Science Center to view the wide, compelling collection from Asia, Oceania, South America, Europe and Ancient Egypt dating back 6,500 years! This amazing collection bridges the gap between the past and the present across seven countries. Explore how mummies are created, where they come from and who they were.
On Mummy Mondays you can see it from the discounted price at $15. During normal hours you can use your student ID and pay only $22! Visit the website here for more information!
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Museum Mondays: Pennsylvania Ave. Heritage Trail
Monday, November 4th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: A trail telling the history of the African Americans who helped build Baltimore
Where: 100 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
When: At your convenience
On a self guided tour you can walk or drive the trail with various markers distinguishing important African Americans who have shaped Baltimore as a city, it’s culture and the way it is today. These people also helped gain civil rights and affected the music, art, literature and politics of their time. You can take the tour at your leasuire. Take this opportunity to learn about the great city of Baltimore and all the ways it was shape, in addition to ways Baltimore helped shape America.
Visit the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail website for trail maps and more information.
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Museum Mondays: American Visionary Art Museum Halloween Celebration
Monday, October 28th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: End of Free Fall Halloween Celebration
Where: American Visionary Art Museum, 800 Key Highway, Baltimore, MD, 21230
When: Wednesday, October 30th, 4-7pm
The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) will be hosting a Halloween Celebration as the Baltimore Free Fall comes to a close. The event is for all ages and will give you a chance to “punk out your pumpkin” and watch a halloween movie as AVAM kicks off it’s “Gratefully Dead” Legacy Campaign. Don’t miss out on FREE Admission to one of the best museums in Baltimore and your chance to decorate your very own pumpkin with a free screening of Tim Burton’s Beetle Juice! Stop by AVAM and get your free fall on! Better late than never.
Stop by the AVAM website for all the details and directions.
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Museum Mondays: Amaranthine Museum- Treasure Hunt
Monday, October 21st, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Free Fall Treasure Hunt
When: October 20th and October 27th, 12:30-2:30pm
Where: 2010 Clipper Park Road, Baltimore, MD
As a part of Free Fall in Baltimore, visitors of the Amaranthine Museum will be provoked to look deep within the Labyrinth paintings for tiny details included in their treasure hunt. By searching the paintings and looking to match them with their correct title, you will be in a race to match all the pieces in hopes of taking home a prize. This hunt is a fun, interactive way to get yourself involved with the paintings included in the exhibit. You will be given the opportunity to look at the paintings in a new way in order to successfully complete your treasure hunt!
More information is available online as well as regular museum hours and more! You can also find them on facebook!
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Museum Mondays: 13th Annual Baltimore’s Great Architecture Lecture Series at Homewood
Monday, October 14th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Lecture series and site visit on the resurrection of Baltimore’s monuments in the early 19th century
Where: Homewood Museum, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD
When: October 21, 26 & 28
Homewood Museum, operated by JHU, is hosting a lecture series with topics about the turn of the 19th century in Baltimore, and is set at Homewood due to the Carroll Family’s former residence there over three decades. The lectures will focus namely on the Washington Monument and the city’s Battle Monument, and the series will include a site visit on October 26th. These lectures and visit will be culturally rich and plan to enlighten the community and beyond about the history present within our city. Tickets for non-members start at $12 per event and more pricing is available online.
Check the event out online for all the details.
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Museum Mondays: Cylburn Arboretum
Monday, October 7th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Gardens, Visitor Center, Mansion and Nature Museum
When: Tuesday – Sunday 8AM-8PM,
Visitor Center, 10AM-4PM
Where: 4915 Greenspring Ave. Baltimore, MD
Free and open to the public year round and just around the corner from Loyola, Cylburn Arboretum is a place of peace and serenity. The beautiful gardens and historical grounds are a wonderful place to go explore or maybe on a picnic. They have lots of events coming up this fall, including a Halloween event with a costume parade and a pumpkin carving contest!
Check out their website for fun events and happenings!
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Museum Mondays: National Electronics Museum
Monday, September 30th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
When: Monday – Friday 9am-4pm, Saturdays 10am-2pm
Where: 1745 West Nursery Road, Linthicum Heights, Maryland
The National Electronics Museum is a fantastic way to travel through the history of electronics. The museum features many exhibits showcasing pieces from a broad span of time periods including, but not limited to, the history of early radar, Cold War electronics, WWII technologies and underwater electronics. The National Electronics Museum is the only way to get all the info you need on how electronics have advanced through the years.
Admission is only $ 1 for students!
For more info and a full list of exhibits, you can visit their website.
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Museum Mondays: Free Fall Baltimore!
Monday, September 23rd, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Free entrance to the wonderfully cultured museums of Baltimore
When: The month of October
For the past eight years the museums of Baltimore have been participating in Free Fall in celebration of National Art and History Month. Throughout the month, many museums, musical performance arenas and theaters across the city offer various free events, free entry on particular days of the week and awesome exhibitions! Don’t miss out on this chance to become aware of the culture in Baltimore for free! All are welcome, but certain events offer limited space, so keep your eyes out for special events and ticketing!
Check out Free Fall Baltimore for more information on events and what museums are participating!
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Museum Mondays: Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
Monday, August 12th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
August 22nd – August 25th | All Day
Baltimore Convention Center | 1 West Pratt Street
The 33rd Annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show will return to the Baltimore Convention Center, August 22-25, 2013. Put on by the Palm Beach Show Group, this show is anticipated to attract tens of thousands of collectors and dealers from all over the world. The show is the largest indoor antiques show in the country, offering access to aisles of fine art, furniture, Asian art, American and European silver, jewelry, porcelain, glass, textiles, American folk art and more, ranging from the antiquities to the 20th century. The show is anticipated to have more than 200,000 items on display! Additionally, guests will have the opportunity to enjoy the show’s free lecture series, headlined by exhibiting dealers and industry experts. There will also be an antiquarian book fair within the show, featuring rare books, first editions, autographs, fine manuscripts, and unusual bibliographical material. Tickets are for sale online at $15 per person and are good for all four show days.
For more information, check out the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show’s website.
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