• Baltimore Maritime Museum - (Baltimore, MD) - Come aboard our three ships and lighthouse - all National Historic Landmarks, tributes to America's maritime heritage. Home of the Torsk submarine, USCGC Taney, Lightship Chesapeake, and the Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse.

• The Walters Art Museum - (Baltimore, MD) - Located in Baltimore’s historic Mount Vernon Cultural District. Its permanent collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art, and Old Master and 19th-century paintings.

• Academy Art Museum - (Easton, MD) - A private not-for-profit organization. Its permanent collection is built around 19th and 20th century works on paper by many accomplished American and European artists. Since its founding in 1958 the museum has been dedicated to promoting the knowledge, and appreciation of the arts and has become a leader for arts for students, beginners and experienced artists and craftspeople throughout the Eastern Shore.

• Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum - (St. Michaels, MD) - Where the stories of the Bay and its people come alive! Explore nine exhibit buildings on 18 waterfront acres in scenic St. Michaels, Maryland. With a working boatyard, an impressive collection of decoys and an interactive waterman's shanty, there's something of interest for everyone. Fun-filled festivals, engaging special exhibitions, hands-on boatbuilding classes, and outdoor summer concerts. Come for the day, stay for the weekend.

• Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art - (Salisbury, MD) - A museum of about 3,000 decoys and decorative bird carvings.

• B&O Railroad Museum - (Baltimore, MD) - A fascinating, fun place for kids, families, and lovers of history and American railroading. The most comprehensive collection in the Western Hemisphere. Over 20 new exhibits and events celebrating 175 years of American railroading, now through July 2003. Free parking.

• St. Clement's Island-Potomac River Museum - (Colton's Point, MD) - A nationally accredited museum that interprets Maryland's earliest history with the first colonial landing at St. Clement's Island in March of 1634. Water taxi to St. Clement's Island, Birthplace of Maryland, available weekends Memorial Day to Labor Day, weather permitting. Picnic and pier facilities. Call for more info.

• Cold War Museum - (Fairfax, VA) - A 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to education, preservation, and research on the global, ideological, and political confrontations between East and West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Serving the counties of Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, Kent, Montgomery, Prince Georges, Queen Annes, Somerset, St. Marys, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico and Worcester. Maryland is sometimes referenced as MD and mis-spelled as Marland or Marylnd.