| Event | When | Location | Category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 150 Years & Counting: Walking through History at the Maryland Zoo | Join us to celebrate the Maryland Zoo’s 150th birthday with a new walking tour around its historic grounds. Discover the history of the zoo and several of its important landmarks, including iron-barred cages and other structures built when the Rogers Mansion was still a private residence. As we walk, we’ll hear about the zoo’s first elephant, Mary Ann, and we might even glimpse some penguins. We hope you’ll join us to experience a walk through the past, which will showcase how far zoological organizations have come from menageries of exotic creatures to expert conservation centers for endangered species! (read more...) |
July 29th, 2026 5:00 PM through 6:00 PM |
The Maryland Zoo In Baltimore 1876 Mansion House Drive Baltimore, 21217 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Historic Green Mount Cemetery August 1 | Inherited from the great Baltimore historian Wayne Schaumburg, join Baltimore Heritage to tour Baltimore’s historic Green Mount Cemetery. Opened in 1839, Green Mount is an early example of an urban-rural cemetery, that is, a cemetery with a park-like setting located close to the countryside. Green Mount is the final resting place of some of Maryland’s most famous, and infamous, figures including Johns Hopkins, Enoch Pratt, William and Henry Walters, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Betsy Patterson, A.S. Abell, John H. B. Latrobe, John Wilkes Booth, and Elijah Bond, who patented the Ouija Board! (read more...) |
August 1st, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Inner Harbor Boat & Trolley Tour | Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
August 1st, 2026 10:00 AM through 2:30 PM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Inner Harbor August 2026 | From industrial waterfront to the city’s center of tourism and festivities, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor has seen remarkable transformations. Join us to walk the history of our waterfront and discover public art hiding in plain sight, historic ships and their ballasts used as street pavers, and the National Aquarium’s Harbor Wetlands Project for a glimpse into what the harbor looked like more than 300 years ago – and maybe what it can look like again in the future. (read more...) |
August 2nd, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
501 E Pratt Street Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Booth, Baltimore & Lincoln’s Assassination: A Walking Tour of Green Mount Cemetery | Join us at Green Mount Cemetery to discover the tangled history of John Wilkes Booth, Baltimore, and the plots to kidnap and assassinate Abraham Lincoln. We’ll trace Booth’s childhood on Exeter Street and how he followed his Shakespearean-trained father’s footsteps into the theater world. We’ll get to know Booth–the womanizer, the white supremacist, and the presidential assassin. We’ll also revisit major events of the Civil War, including the Pratt Street Riots and the surrender at Appomattox, and how they influenced the conspirators’ actions leading up to the day Booth murdered Lincoln. As we walk, you’ll hear about the events of the fateful day and the fates of the Booth’s co-conspirators. And of course, we’ll see the unmarked burial site of Booth and the graves of two of his co-conspirators. We hope you’ll walk to the grounds of Green Mount Cemetery with us to discover this poignant history in a whole new light. (read more...) |
August 8th, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Baltimore by Boat, August 8 | Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
August 8th, 2026 10:00 AM through 11:30 AM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Patterson Park August 2026 | Join us to walk through Patterson Park and through time starting back when it was officially created in 1827. During the War of 1812, the park saw action defending Baltimore. And during the Civil War, troops here made sure Maryland didn’t secede from the Union. The park has been used for strolling, fishing, hockey, swimming, festivals and even as a beef market. Over its 198-year history, it has grown from 6 acres to 137 acres, partially thanks to the famous Olmsted Firm. Discover the history of Patterson Park, which is in many ways the story of Baltimore itself, and see how it really is "the best backyard in Baltimore." (read more...) |
August 9th, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
28 S Patterson Park Ave Baltimore, MD 21231 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Station North: A Light City Tour | As artists and restaurants are throwing open their doors for the monthly Station North Art Walk, join us on one of our Light City Baltimore tours to learn how this arts and entertainment area combines diversity with energy. It builds on a heritage of Korean businesses and famous Black-owned nightclubs that popularized Baltimore house music and put Baltimore jazz on the national map. This neighborhood has championed reusing old buildings like theatres, car dealerships and factories for new uses. And it's one of those places in Baltimore that is humming along even if many people don't know about it—art thrives here. Come explore its history and renaissance with us! This tour will occur the same night as the Station North Art Walk and we encourage you to check out the dozens of open art studios and restaurants before our tour starts! (read more...) |
August 14th, 2026 7:30 PM through 8:30 PM |
12 W North Ave Baltimore, 21201 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| 150 Years & Counting: Walking through History at the Maryland Zoo | Join us to celebrate the Maryland Zoo’s 150th birthday with a new walking tour around its historic grounds. Discover the history of the zoo and several of its important landmarks, including iron-barred cages and other structures built when the Rogers Mansion was still a private residence. As we walk, we’ll hear about the zoo’s first elephant, Mary Ann, and we might even glimpse some penguins. We hope you’ll join us to experience a walk through the past, which will showcase how far zoological organizations have come from menageries of exotic creatures to expert conservation centers for endangered species! (read more...) |
August 15th, 2026 9:00 AM through 10:00 AM |
The Maryland Zoo In Baltimore 1876 Mansion House Drive Baltimore, 21217 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Buried in Plain Sight: The Black Family Servants in Green Mount Cemetery | Opened in 1839, Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery is the final resting place of some of Maryland’s most famous, and infamous, figures. For a long time, it was believed only one African American person, Martha Ann Atavis, was buried here. After filming a video on her, Baltimore Heritage board member and volunteer, Lashelle Bynum, vowed to uncover the stories of other African Americans buried here. Since then, Lashelle and Green Mount Cemetery employees have discovered over a dozen Black Baltimoreans who worked as enslaved and/or free servants and were buried in the plots of their enslavers and/or employers. Join Lashelle, and Molly Ricks, Deputy Director of Baltimore Heritage, to learn the names of these individuals—Patience Marsh, Isaac Beale, and Hester Turner, to name a few—and how they persevered. Accessibility: Although there are some paved pathways, we will be walking over mostly uneven grassy terrain and cobblestones. (read more...) |
August 15th, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Baltimore by Boat, August 15 | Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
August 15th, 2026 10:00 AM through 11:30 AM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| The System Source Computer Museum: A Behind the Scenes Tour | System Source's computer museum displays technology from the inception of computing. From the ancient Antikythera Mechanism dating to the first century BC to the Altair 8800, the early personal computer that Paul Allen and Bill Gates (then a student at Harvard) wrote code for in the mid 1970s, the Computer Museum at the IT firm System Source is a marvelous chronicle of the evolution of the computer. Please join us as we explore computers of all shapes and sizes through the ages. Who knows, maybe the museum’s Millionaire Calculating Machine from 1909 will again work its magic on our tour. (read more...) |
August 15th, 2026 10:30 AM through 12:00 PM |
System Source Computer Museum 338 Clubhouse Road Hunt Valley, 21031 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Federal Hill August 2026 | Baltimoreans celebrated atop Federal Hill when we ratified the U.S. Constitution. We used it to defend the city from the British in the War of 1812 and to make sure we stayed in the Union in the Civil War. We have even tunnelled under it to quarry minerals. Join us on a tour of Federal Hill and the neighborhood around it to learn about this waterfront community’s rich history, including stops at one of the last wooden houses in the city, the oldest house in Federal Hill, and the wonderful alley houses along Churchill Street. (read more...) |
August 16th, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
Federal Hill Park (southwest Corner) 301 Warren Avenue Baltimore, 21230 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Historic Green Mount Cemetery August 22 | Inherited from the great Baltimore historian Wayne Schaumburg, join Baltimore Heritage to tour Baltimore’s historic Green Mount Cemetery. Opened in 1839, Green Mount is an early example of an urban-rural cemetery, that is, a cemetery with a park-like setting located close to the countryside. Green Mount is the final resting place of some of Maryland’s most famous, and infamous, figures including Johns Hopkins, Enoch Pratt, William and Henry Walters, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Betsy Patterson, A.S. Abell, John H. B. Latrobe, John Wilkes Booth, and Elijah Bond, who patented the Ouija Board! (read more...) |
August 22nd, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Baltimore by Boat: Gal Pals Edition, August 22 | Hey Gal Pals! Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
August 22nd, 2026 10:00 AM through 11:30 AM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Fells Point August 2026 | Join us to see how Fell’s Point developed in the 1730s to become one of Baltimore’s premier waterfront communities. Great wealth through trade was created here for the likes of Johns Hopkins, George Peabody, and William Walters. These shores were the first place over a million immigrants started their American dream, yet also where enslaved people either arrived in bondage or were shipped south in chains. As we walk, we’ll point out historic homes and industrial heritage, like the country’s first Black-owned shipyard, and share some of the rich stories that this 300-year-old waterfront neighborhood has to offer. (read more...) |
August 23rd, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
821 S Broadway Baltimore, MD 21231 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Baltimore by Boat, August 29 | Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
August 29th, 2026 10:00 AM through 11:30 AM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Westminster Catacombs August 30 2026 | Join us to explore the eerie catacombs underneath Baltimore’s First Presbyterian Church, now called Westminster Hall, and the graves that surround it, including the final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe. The burial ground predates the church, which was built on arches above the gravesites, so that the graveyard and its tombstones lie both underneath and around the building. We bet you will also recognize more than a few Baltimore street names as we walk among the patriots and civic leaders buried at Westminster including Calhoun, Hollins, Gilmore, and Bentalou. All told, the compact cemetery next to the University of Maryland School of Law is the final resting place for over 1,000 individuals. We can’t wait to see you “Where Baltimore’s History Rests in Peace!” (read more...) |
August 30th, 2026 11:00 AM through 12:00 PM |
519 W Fayette St Baltimore, MD 21201 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Dragon Clocks, Antique Musical Machines and More: An Awe-Inspring Visit to the “Clock | Known widely throughout Baltimore as “The Clock House,” Mr. Durward Center’s 2100 St. Paul Street Victorian home is a Mecca for lovers of early mechanical devices. By profession, Mr. Center is a restoration expert for antique tower-clocks and organs and has worked on projects across the country and as close to home as Penn Station in Baltimore. He is even the craftsman behind the restoration of the 1898 Welte “concert orchestration” that sat in the entrance to Oakley Court, the manor house outside London that was made famous in Dracula movies and perhaps infamous in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. For his St. Paul Street house, Mr. Center has installed three clock dials on the outside (including the dragon clock) and has an almost endless collection inside. A music room contains early mechanical musical devices that he has restored. Please join us and our host, Mr. Durward Center, as we learn about (and literally hear) the fascinating marriage between a historic Baltimore rowhouse and a world-class collection of early mechanical devices. (read more...) |
September 3rd, 2026 5:30 PM through 6:30 PM |
Clock House 2100 Saint Paul Street Baltimore, MD 21218 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| 150 Years & Counting: Walking through History at the Maryland Zoo | Join us to celebrate the Maryland Zoo’s 150th birthday with a new walking tour around its historic grounds. Discover the history of the zoo and several of its important landmarks, including iron-barred cages and other structures built when the Rogers Mansion was still a private residence. As we walk, we’ll hear about the zoo’s first elephant, Mary Ann, and we might even glimpse some penguins. We hope you’ll join us to experience a walk through the past, which will showcase how far zoological organizations have come from menageries of exotic creatures to expert conservation centers for endangered species! (read more...) |
September 12th, 2026 9:00 AM through 10:00 AM |
The Maryland Zoo In Baltimore 1876 Mansion House Drive Baltimore, 21217 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Baltimore by Boat, September 12 | Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
September 12th, 2026 10:00 AM through 11:30 AM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Westminster Catacombs September 12 2026 | Join us to explore the eerie catacombs underneath Baltimore’s First Presbyterian Church, now called Westminster Hall, and the graves that surround it, including the final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe. The burial ground predates the church, which was built on arches above the gravesites, so that the graveyard and its tombstones lie both underneath and around the building. We bet you will also recognize more than a few Baltimore street names as we walk among the patriots and civic leaders buried at Westminster including Calhoun, Hollins, Gilmore, and Bentalou. All told, the compact cemetery next to the University of Maryland School of Law is the final resting place for over 1,000 individuals. We can’t wait to see you “Where Baltimore’s History Rests in Peace!” (read more...) |
September 12th, 2026 11:00 AM through 12:00 PM |
519 W Fayette St Baltimore, MD 21201 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Patterson Park September 2026 | Join us to walk through Patterson Park and through time starting back when it was officially created in 1827. During the War of 1812, the park saw action defending Baltimore. And during the Civil War, troops here made sure Maryland didn’t secede from the Union. The park has been used for strolling, fishing, hockey, swimming, festivals and even as a beef market. Over its 198-year history, it has grown from 6 acres to 137 acres, partially thanks to the famous Olmsted Firm. Discover the history of Patterson Park, which is in many ways the story of Baltimore itself, and see how it really is "the best backyard in Baltimore." (read more...) |
September 13th, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
28 S Patterson Park Ave Baltimore, MD 21231 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| A Walking Tour of East Baltimore’s Historic American Indian “Reservation” | The place now known as Baltimore, like the rest of what is now known as the United States, has always been home to Native peoples. Baltimore is part of the ancestral homelands of the Piscataway and the Susquehannock, and a diverse host of American Indian folks from other nations have passed through or lived here at different times — and still do! In the mid-twentieth century, thousands of Lumbee Indians and members of other tribal nations migrated to Baltimore City, seeking jobs and a better quality of life. They settled in Upper Fells Point and Washington Hill and created a vibrant, intertribal American Indian community, which they affectionately referred to as “the reservation,” in its heyday. In the decades since the community has gradually moved away from the area. Recent generations never experienced “the reservation” as such. Today, most Baltimoreans are surprised to learn that it ever existed. On September 4, join historian and artist Ashley Minner Jones to learn about places and spaces important to American Indian history and heritage in the city, with a focus on East Baltimore’s Historic American Indian “Reservation” in the 20th century. (read more...) |
September 17th, 2026 1:00 PM through 2:30 PM |
211 S. Broadway Baltimore, MD 21231 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Booth, Baltimore & Lincoln’s Assassination: A Walking Tour of Green Mount Cemetery | Join us at Green Mount Cemetery to discover the tangled history of John Wilkes Booth, Baltimore, and the plots to kidnap and assassinate Abraham Lincoln. We’ll trace Booth’s childhood on Exeter Street and how he followed his Shakespearean-trained father’s footsteps into the theater world. We’ll get to know Booth–the womanizer, the white supremacist, and the presidential assassin. We’ll also revisit major events of the Civil War, including the Pratt Street Riots and the surrender at Appomattox, and how they influenced the conspirators’ actions leading up to the day Booth murdered Lincoln. As we walk, you’ll hear about the events of the fateful day and the fates of the Booth’s co-conspirators. And of course, we’ll see the unmarked burial site of Booth and the graves of two of his co-conspirators. We hope you’ll walk to the grounds of Green Mount Cemetery with us to discover this poignant history in a whole new light. (read more...) |
September 19th, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Baltimore by Boat, September 19 | Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
September 19th, 2026 10:00 AM through 11:30 AM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Brewer's Hill: Where Immigrants Brewed a Community | Discover how Brewer's Hill grew from rural farmland into a vibrant immigrant and industrial neighborhood at the heart of Baltimore's brewing history. This one-mile guided walking tour explores historic rowhouses, neighborhood history, and the legacy of local breweries like National Bohemian and Gunther. Join us as we uncover stories of beer, bricklayers, and the communities who built this corner of the city. (read more...) |
September 20th, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
801 S Conkling St Baltimore, MD 21224 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Westminster Catacombs September 20 2026 | Join us to explore the eerie catacombs underneath Baltimore’s First Presbyterian Church, now called Westminster Hall, and the graves that surround it, including the final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe. The burial ground predates the church, which was built on arches above the gravesites, so that the graveyard and its tombstones lie both underneath and around the building. We bet you will also recognize more than a few Baltimore street names as we walk among the patriots and civic leaders buried at Westminster including Calhoun, Hollins, Gilmore, and Bentalou. All told, the compact cemetery next to the University of Maryland School of Law is the final resting place for over 1,000 individuals. We can’t wait to see you “Where Baltimore’s History Rests in Peace!” (read more...) |
September 20th, 2026 11:00 AM through 12:00 PM |
519 W Fayette St Baltimore, MD 21201 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| 150 Years & Counting: Walking through History at the Maryland Zoo | Join us to celebrate the Maryland Zoo’s 150th birthday with a new walking tour around its historic grounds. Discover the history of the zoo and several of its important landmarks, including iron-barred cages and other structures built when the Rogers Mansion was still a private residence. As we walk, we’ll hear about the zoo’s first elephant, Mary Ann, and we might even glimpse some penguins. We hope you’ll join us to experience a walk through the past, which will showcase how far zoological organizations have come from menageries of exotic creatures to expert conservation centers for endangered species! (read more...) |
September 23rd, 2026 5:00 PM through 6:00 PM |
The Maryland Zoo In Baltimore 1876 Mansion House Drive Baltimore, MD 21217 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Jonestown: A Walking Tour | Jonestown is one of Baltimore’s oldest and most historic neighborhoods. Both groundbreaking industry and vibrant communities have thrived here. On this tour, we will see the vestiges of its Eastern European Jewish residents as we pass Corned Beef Row. We hope you’ll join Baltimore Heritage and tour guide Bev Rosen as we stroll past a series of firsts: the McKim Free School, the city’s oldest education building from 1833, the Lloyd Street Synagogue, the first synagogue in Maryland and the third oldest in the country, and the 1808 home of Charles Carroll, the longest living signer of the Declaration of Independence. (read more...) |
September 26th, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:00 AM |
Carroll Museum 800 E Lombard Street Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Historic Green Mount Cemetery September 26 | Inherited from the great Baltimore historian Wayne Schaumburg, join Baltimore Heritage to tour Baltimore’s historic Green Mount Cemetery. Opened in 1839, Green Mount is an early example of an urban-rural cemetery, that is, a cemetery with a park-like setting located close to the countryside. Green Mount is the final resting place of some of Maryland’s most famous, and infamous, figures including Johns Hopkins, Enoch Pratt, William and Henry Walters, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Betsy Patterson, A.S. Abell, John H. B. Latrobe, John Wilkes Booth, and Elijah Bond, who patented the Ouija Board! (read more...) |
September 26th, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Baltimore by Boat, September 26 | Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
September 26th, 2026 10:00 AM through 11:30 AM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Fells Point September 2026 | Join us to see how Fell’s Point developed in the 1730s to become one of Baltimore’s premier waterfront communities. Great wealth through trade was created here for the likes of Johns Hopkins, George Peabody, and William Walters. These shores were the first place over a million immigrants started their American dream, yet also where enslaved people either arrived in bondage or were shipped south in chains. As we walk, we’ll point out historic homes and industrial heritage, like the country’s first Black-owned shipyard, and share some of the rich stories that this 300-year-old waterfront neighborhood has to offer. (read more...) |
September 27th, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
821 S Broadway Baltimore, MD 21231 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Ridgely's Delight | For a tiny neighborhood squeezed between the University of Maryland and Camden Yards, Ridgely’s Delight contains an oversized history. George Washington slept here and Babe Ruth was born here! Join us to walk the preserved, picturesque streets of one of the earliest neighborhoods in Baltimore while we look back at the stories of both its famous visitors and the ordinary Baltimoreans who worked and raised their families here. (read more...) |
October 3rd, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
Babe Ruth Museum 216 Emory Street Baltimore, 21230 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Baltimore by Boat, October 3 | Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
October 3rd, 2026 10:00 AM through 11:30 AM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Inner Harbor October 2026 | From industrial waterfront to the city’s center of tourism and festivities, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor has seen remarkable transformations. Join us to walk the history of our waterfront and discover public art hiding in plain sight, historic ships and their ballasts used as street pavers, and the National Aquarium’s Harbor Wetlands Project for a glimpse into what the harbor looked like more than 300 years ago – and maybe what it can look like again in the future. (read more...) |
October 4th, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
501 E Pratt Street Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| 150 Years & Counting: Walking through History at the Maryland Zoo | Join us to celebrate the Maryland Zoo’s 150th birthday with a new walking tour around its historic grounds. Discover the history of the zoo and several of its important landmarks, including iron-barred cages and other structures built when the Rogers Mansion was still a private residence. As we walk, we’ll hear about the zoo’s first elephant, Mary Ann, and we might even glimpse some penguins. We hope you’ll join us to experience a walk through the past, which will showcase how far zoological organizations have come from menageries of exotic creatures to expert conservation centers for endangered species! (read more...) |
October 7th, 2026 5:00 PM through 6:00 PM |
The Maryland Zoo In Baltimore 1876 Mansion House Drive Baltimore, 21217 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Preservation Celebration 2026 | Join us for our free Preservation Celebration 2026 at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum! On October 8, we’ll honor our 2026 Preservation Award winners and, with your help, give out five micro-grants (from $500 to $1500) to people working on the front lines in our historic neighborhoods. We’ll say thank you to our volunteers and honor all of their hard work this year. And, we’ll be celebrating local Baltimore businesses by giving away door prize gift certificates to local restaurants, theatres and more! With dinner and drinks from locally-owned Baltimore vendors, we hope you will join us for what promises to be a wonderful evening. The event is free with a suggested donation of $25. (read more...) |
October 8th, 2026 5:30 PM through 7:30 PM |
1901 Falls Road Baltimore, MD 21211 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| A Walking Tour of East Baltimore’s Historic American Indian “Reservation” | The place now known as Baltimore, like the rest of what is now known as the United States, has always been home to Native peoples. Baltimore is part of the ancestral homelands of the Piscataway and the Susquehannock, and a diverse host of American Indian folks from other nations have passed through or lived here at different times — and still do! In the mid-twentieth century, thousands of Lumbee Indians and members of other tribal nations migrated to Baltimore City, seeking jobs and a better quality of life. They settled in Upper Fells Point and Washington Hill and created a vibrant, intertribal American Indian community, which they affectionately referred to as “the reservation,” in its heyday. In the decades since the community has gradually moved away from the area. Recent generations never experienced “the reservation” as such. Today, most Baltimoreans are surprised to learn that it ever existed. On September 4, join historian and artist Ashley Minner Jones to learn about places and spaces important to American Indian history and heritage in the city, with a focus on East Baltimore’s Historic American Indian “Reservation” in the 20th century. (read more...) |
October 15th, 2026 6:00 PM through 7:00 PM |
211 S. Broadway Baltimore, MD 21231 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Federal Hill October 2026 | Baltimoreans celebrated atop Federal Hill when we ratified the U.S. Constitution. We used it to defend the city from the British in the War of 1812 and to make sure we stayed in the Union in the Civil War. We have even tunnelled under it to quarry minerals. Join us on a tour of Federal Hill and the neighborhood around it to learn about this waterfront community’s rich history, including stops at one of the last wooden houses in the city, the oldest house in Federal Hill, and the wonderful alley houses along Churchill Street. (read more...) |
October 18th, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
Federal Hill Park (southwest Corner) 301 Warren Avenue Baltimore, 21230 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Historic Green Mount Cemetery October 24 | Inherited from the great Baltimore historian Wayne Schaumburg, join Baltimore Heritage to tour Baltimore’s historic Green Mount Cemetery. Opened in 1839, Green Mount is an early example of an urban-rural cemetery, that is, a cemetery with a park-like setting located close to the countryside. Green Mount is the final resting place of some of Maryland’s most famous, and infamous, figures including Johns Hopkins, Enoch Pratt, William and Henry Walters, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Betsy Patterson, A.S. Abell, John H. B. Latrobe, John Wilkes Booth, and Elijah Bond, who patented the Ouija Board! (read more...) |
October 24th, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Baltimore by Boat, October 24 | Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
October 24th, 2026 10:00 AM through 11:30 AM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Fells Point October 2026 | Join us to see how Fell’s Point developed in the 1730s to become one of Baltimore’s premier waterfront communities. Great wealth through trade was created here for the likes of Johns Hopkins, George Peabody, and William Walters. These shores were the first place over a million immigrants started their American dream, yet also where enslaved people either arrived in bondage or were shipped south in chains. As we walk, we’ll point out historic homes and industrial heritage, like the country’s first Black-owned shipyard, and share some of the rich stories that this 300-year-old waterfront neighborhood has to offer. (read more...) |
October 25th, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
821 S Broadway Baltimore, MD 21231 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Historic Green Mount Cemetery October 31 | Inherited from the great Baltimore historian Wayne Schaumburg, join Baltimore Heritage to tour Baltimore’s historic Green Mount Cemetery. Opened in 1839, Green Mount is an early example of an urban-rural cemetery, that is, a cemetery with a park-like setting located close to the countryside. Green Mount is the final resting place of some of Maryland’s most famous, and infamous, figures including Johns Hopkins, Enoch Pratt, William and Henry Walters, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Betsy Patterson, A.S. Abell, John H. B. Latrobe, John Wilkes Booth, and Elijah Bond, who patented the Ouija Board! (read more...) |
October 31st, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Baltimore by Boat, October 31 | Join us to discover America's history on Baltimore's water with our new Inner Harbor boat tours! America defeated the British here. Frederick Douglass escaped from here. Today we are pioneering watershed restoration here. We will start near the Harborplace pavilions and go all the way out to see Fort McHenry from the water and back again. Join us for 300 years of history on a live-narrated tour of Baltimore's world famous Inner Harbor. Come see how Baltimore's wonderful waterfront connects the past with the present and Baltimore to the rest of the world. (read more...) |
October 31st, 2026 10:00 AM through 11:30 AM |
201 E Pratt St Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Inner Harbor November 2026 | From industrial waterfront to the city’s center of tourism and festivities, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor has seen remarkable transformations. Join us to walk the history of our waterfront and discover public art hiding in plain sight, historic ships and their ballasts used as street pavers, and the National Aquarium’s Harbor Wetlands Project for a glimpse into what the harbor looked like more than 300 years ago – and maybe what it can look like again in the future. (read more...) |
November 1st, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
501 E Pratt Street Baltimore, MD 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Historic Green Mount Cemetery November 7 | Inherited from the great Baltimore historian Wayne Schaumburg, join Baltimore Heritage to tour Baltimore’s historic Green Mount Cemetery. Opened in 1839, Green Mount is an early example of an urban-rural cemetery, that is, a cemetery with a park-like setting located close to the countryside. Green Mount is the final resting place of some of Maryland’s most famous, and infamous, figures including Johns Hopkins, Enoch Pratt, William and Henry Walters, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Betsy Patterson, A.S. Abell, John H. B. Latrobe, John Wilkes Booth, and Elijah Bond, who patented the Ouija Board! (read more...) |
November 7th, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Patterson Park November 2026 | Join us to walk through Patterson Park and through time starting back when it was officially created in 1827. During the War of 1812, the park saw action defending Baltimore. And during the Civil War, troops here made sure Maryland didn’t secede from the Union. The park has been used for strolling, fishing, hockey, swimming, festivals and even as a beef market. Over its 198-year history, it has grown from 6 acres to 137 acres, partially thanks to the famous Olmsted Firm. Discover the history of Patterson Park, which is in many ways the story of Baltimore itself, and see how it really is "the best backyard in Baltimore." (read more...) |
November 8th, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
28 S Patterson Park Ave Baltimore, MD 21231 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Brewer's Hill: Where Immigrants Brewed a Community | Discover how Brewer's Hill grew from rural farmland into a vibrant immigrant and industrial neighborhood at the heart of Baltimore's brewing history. This one-mile guided walking tour explores historic rowhouses, neighborhood history, and the legacy of local breweries like National Bohemian and Gunther. Join us as we uncover stories of beer, bricklayers, and the communities who built this corner of the city. (read more...) |
November 15th, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
801 S Conkling St Baltimore, MD 21224 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Booth, Baltimore & Lincoln’s Assassination: A Walking Tour of Green Mount Cemetery | Join us at Green Mount Cemetery to discover the tangled history of John Wilkes Booth, Baltimore, and the plots to kidnap and assassinate Abraham Lincoln. We’ll trace Booth’s childhood on Exeter Street and how he followed his Shakespearean-trained father’s footsteps into the theater world. We’ll get to know Booth–the womanizer, the white supremacist, and the presidential assassin. We’ll also revisit major events of the Civil War, including the Pratt Street Riots and the surrender at Appomattox, and how they influenced the conspirators’ actions leading up to the day Booth murdered Lincoln. As we walk, you’ll hear about the events of the fateful day and the fates of the Booth’s co-conspirators. And of course, we’ll see the unmarked burial site of Booth and the graves of two of his co-conspirators. We hope you’ll walk to the grounds of Green Mount Cemetery with us to discover this poignant history in a whole new light. (read more...) |
November 21st, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Fells Point November 2026 | Join us to see how Fell’s Point developed in the 1730s to become one of Baltimore’s premier waterfront communities. Great wealth through trade was created here for the likes of Johns Hopkins, George Peabody, and William Walters. These shores were the first place over a million immigrants started their American dream, yet also where enslaved people either arrived in bondage or were shipped south in chains. As we walk, we’ll point out historic homes and industrial heritage, like the country’s first Black-owned shipyard, and share some of the rich stories that this 300-year-old waterfront neighborhood has to offer. (read more...) |
November 22nd, 2026 9:30 AM through 10:30 AM |
821 S Broadway Baltimore, MD 21231 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Historic Green Mount Cemetery December 5 | Inherited from the great Baltimore historian Wayne Schaumburg, join Baltimore Heritage to tour Baltimore’s historic Green Mount Cemetery. Opened in 1839, Green Mount is an early example of an urban-rural cemetery, that is, a cemetery with a park-like setting located close to the countryside. Green Mount is the final resting place of some of Maryland’s most famous, and infamous, figures including Johns Hopkins, Enoch Pratt, William and Henry Walters, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Betsy Patterson, A.S. Abell, John H. B. Latrobe, John Wilkes Booth, and Elijah Bond, who patented the Ouija Board! (read more...) |
December 5th, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes | |
| Booth, Baltimore & Lincoln’s Assassination: A Walking Tour of Green Mount Cemetery | Join us at Green Mount Cemetery to discover the tangled history of John Wilkes Booth, Baltimore, and the plots to kidnap and assassinate Abraham Lincoln. We’ll trace Booth’s childhood on Exeter Street and how he followed his Shakespearean-trained father’s footsteps into the theater world. We’ll get to know Booth–the womanizer, the white supremacist, and the presidential assassin. We’ll also revisit major events of the Civil War, including the Pratt Street Riots and the surrender at Appomattox, and how they influenced the conspirators’ actions leading up to the day Booth murdered Lincoln. As we walk, you’ll hear about the events of the fateful day and the fates of the Booth’s co-conspirators. And of course, we’ll see the unmarked burial site of Booth and the graves of two of his co-conspirators. We hope you’ll walk to the grounds of Green Mount Cemetery with us to discover this poignant history in a whole new light. (read more...) |
December 12th, 2026 9:30 AM through 11:30 AM |
1501 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, 21202 | Tour - Behind the Scenes |
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