To the Baltimore Community:

At this moment of national reckoning, I believe that history museums have a special role and responsibility. For the BMI, that means that we are not only the stewards of Baltimore’s proud industrial history and the teller of stories about the daring entrepreneurs and hardworking laborers who transformed a sleepy colonial town into a manufacturing powerhouse. Our collections, exhibitions, and programs also preserve the legacies of the men and women who were not permitted to take the jobs that would carry their families into the middle class, and who did not have full access to the American dream.

Anita Kassof
Executive Director