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PLEASE
NOTE:
The exhibitions featured on this page are not open in the museum
or the library galleries.
These are ONLINE exhibitions only.
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19th-century
Baltimore Album Quilts
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The
Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition
The
Maryland Historical Society's textile and costume collection provides
insight to Maryland history from a distinctly different vantage
point. Women, those who most often made these textiles, wrote their
lives in this visual format. More...
On-Line
Library Exhibitions
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Masonic
Building, 223-225 North Charles Street
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Baltimore
Architecture: Then and Now
Baltimoreans past and present have endowed their "Monumental City"
with a priceless "built heritage," but each generation diminishes
its patrimony of buildings and monuments as readily - sometimes
even more readily - than it adds to its list of bequests. The documentation
of this process of simultaneous addition and subtraction has always
been part of the mission of the Maryland Historical Society.
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House of Refuge Baltimore
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More
than Meets the Eye: History of Maryland Through Prints, 1750-1900
Maryland, and especially Baltimore, were fortunate to attract a
number of highly accomplished lithographic artists. The resultant
prints pleased their contemporaries and make real the state's past.
Few can resist the desire to look at pictures, and housands of words,
in truth, cannot replace their visual effect. The craftsmanship
of prints conveys an absolutely infectious pleasure. Few will be
able to resist poring over them....
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Water Street, c 1875
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Maryland
in Focus: Photographs of Maryland, 1845-1970
Who takes the photographs in your family? Who keeps them? Are they
carefully arranged in albums or packed away in shoeboxes? Eventually
each of us becomes the curator of a collection of photographs that
document our life. How do you choose forty photographs to display
from among 400,000? The wealth of material available poses the problem
of what to leave out, not what to include. This documentary is the
end result. These are not necessarily the Maryland Historical Society’s
forty best photographs, or forty most historically important, or
forty most popular. This does include forty excellent photographs
that we hope will interest, educate, and entertain you.
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Mapping Maryland
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Mapping
Maryland
Maryland, colony and state, features prominently in the history
of America's mapping. One of the earlier colonized regions, it has
appeared on maps (in varying degrees of detail) for over 350 years.
At first, interest was focused mainly on the Chesapeake Bay area,
but when the colonized area expanded to the west, so did maps.
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Maryland Firsts
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Maryland
Firsts
Maryland is a state of many contrasts. From the ocean in the East
to the mountains in the West, the panorama of Maryland’s geography
stretches across much varied terrain. Matching this geographical
variety is Maryland’s history - in particular, its record of “firsts”.
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