Museums and Collections in Maryland

This heritage museum highlights the importance of the dairy cow as a vital part of rural Maryland's past, present, and future.

Both the building and blades of this reconstructed 19th-century windmill can turn in a breeze.

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.