Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore

The Peale is a community museum in , , which reopened in 2017 after 20 years of vacancy and was fully renovated by 2022. It occupies the first building in the Americas to be designed and built specifically as a museum.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Also known as: “Baltimore City Life Museums”, “Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture”, “Peale Museum”, “Peale’s Baltimore Museum”, “Peales Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts”, “The Peale”, and “The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture”
  • Address: 225 Holliday Street, Baltimore, MD 21202-3612

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Baltimore City Hall and Zion Lutheran Church.

Town hall
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is the official seat of government of the City of Baltimore, in the State of . The City Hall houses the offices of the Mayor and those of the City Council of Baltimore. is situated 400 feet southwest of Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore.

Church
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, also known as the Zion Church of the City of Baltimore, is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church located in downtown , , United States, founded 1755.

Park
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is a public square, small park and space in between and the War Memorial Building, between Holliday Street on the west, East Fayette Street on the south, North Gay Street on the east, and East Lexington Street on the north.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown Baltimore and Jonestown.

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is 's central business district and seat of the city government. While home to some iconic Baltimore architecture, and the city's economic heart, visitors, and even locals, tend to keep their distance from this often seedy and decidedly unloved city center, unless they are going to the Baltimore Arena, the Hippodrome Theatre, or visiting Poe's grave at Westminster Hall.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the southeastern district of . Established in 1732, three years after Baltimore was incorporated in 1729, it is one of the oldest places in the city.

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The is the heart of , and the standard-bearer of its industrial and maritime heritage. In the 1950s, the area became an industrial wasteland and the buildings were eventually replaced with parkland for public uses and events.

Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore

Latitude
39.29184° or 39° 17′ 31″ north
Longitude
-76.61005° or 76° 36′ 36″ west
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
Inception
1814
Operator
The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture
Open location code
87F579RQ+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 336352958
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­civic
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
4363397
Wiki­data ID
Q3373833
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “皮尔博物馆”
  • Chinese: “皮爾博物館”
  • Dutch: “Peale Museum”
  • Finnish: “Pealen museo”
  • Finnish: “The Peale Museum”
  • French: “Peale Museum”
  • German: “Peale Museum”
  • Italian: “Peale Museum”
  • Spanish: “Museo Peale”

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