Experience Baltimore’s industrial past with a tour led by a museum educator. Stops may include visits to a belt-driven machine shop, a blacksmith’s shop, an oyster cannery, a print shop, and a garment loft. Students learn about jobs that were important to Baltimore’s history as an industrial city. Tours engage participants in discussions and demonstrations of the museum’s working machines.
Cost: $4 per student
Grade: 2nd—12th
Length: 1 hour
As workers in Mr. Platt’s 1883 oyster cannery, students become managers, foremen, can-makers, printers, labelers, steamers, shuckers, and can-fillers. They learn about the training and wages of skilled and unskilled workers and which people were allowed to have skilled jobs. Students are paid for their work in tokens that they redeem in the company store, where they quickly grasp the value of a day’s work. All students take home a can of “oysters” that they helped to create.
Cost: $8 per student
Grade: 2nd–8th
Length: 1.5 hours
Learn how assembly lines revolutionized American factories. Each student takes a job on the line and builds models of our 1914 moving van.
Cost: $6.50 per student
Outreach option: $8.50 per student
Grade: 2nd–8th
Length: 1 hour
Young engineers learn the basics of experimentation, observation, and design by completing roller coaster challenges using everyday materials.
Cost: $6 per student
Outreach option: $8 per student
Grade: 2nd–8th
Length: 1 hour
The BMI is transformed into an early 20th century Baltimore neighborhood in this program for young visitors. Children become workers of the past as they take an interactive tour through our galleries. They are given different duties and paid with tokens. The program ends with children depositing their earnings and receiving a deposit book to take home.
Cost: $5 per student
Grade: K–2nd
Length: 1 hour
In this STEM program, students explore the use of light as a communication method. Students make real-world connections with artifacts throughout the museum to see how light and sound have been used historically to communicate. Students test this knowledge by building their own light communication device.
Cost: $5 per student
Outreach option: $7 per student
Grade: K–2nd
Length: 1.5 hours
What did Baltimore look like in 1896? Students help build old Baltimore out of paper models and learn about its houses, workplaces, trains, and more.
Cost: $5 per student
Outreach option: $7 per student
Grade: K–2nd
Length: 1 hour
Hands-on classroom activities that include a short gallery visit. Choose a focus on Hat Making, Printing, and Canning, or book more than one session!
Cost: $5 per student
Outreach option: $6 per student
Grade: PreK-K
Length: 1 hour
Young Audiences Arts for Learning Maryland
Baltimore Museum of Industry
1415 Key Highway
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
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FREE on-site parking for our guests.
Phone: 410.727.4808
Email: info@thebmi.org
Rates
Adult – $12
Senior [62+] – $9
Student [w ID] – $7
Youth [7-17] – $7
Child [6 & under] – Free
BMI Members – Always Free!
Museums for All Visitors – Always Free!
BMI proudly offers free admission to active duty and retired military personnel, with military ID.
Group rates available by reservation. Contact tours@thebmi.org or 410.727.4808 x117.
Hours
The BMI is open to the public:
Wednesday 9am – 3pm
Thursday 9am – 3pm
Friday 9am – 3pm
Saturday 9am – 3pm
Sunday 9am – 3pm
Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas (December 23-25)
There are many ways you can show your support for the Baltimore Museum of Industry. Learn more about membership, donating, partnerships or volunteering.
In addition to cash donations, which can be pledged by check or credit card, the BMI gladly accepts gifts of stock, planned or deferred contributions, and in-kind services. To discuss giving options, please contact the Development Office at giving@thebmi.org or 410.727.4808 x129.
To learn more about donating artifacts to the collection, please visit our Artifact Donation page.
The BMI is open Wednesday - Sunday 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM |