Baltimore Museum of Industry — Attraction in Baltimore

‪During a school field trip to the museum of industry in Baltimore, as a chaperone, I witnessed and encountered a confrontational tour guide. She had a biased opinion of history and knowing her audience she twisted facts and forced her left-wrong political interpretation on to 3/4th graders. ‬

She:

‪Blamed the catholic clergymen for prohibiting the distribution of books‬ ‪ONLY referenced blacks as being treated unfairly during that time‬ ‪**Said the church wanted to keep people ignorant and not teach them‬

‪she also said even today women aren’t treated fair, blacks are still oppressed, and equal employment is still a topic that struggles, similar to how it was 50 years ago. ‬

‪She referenced social injustice, racism, sexism, and work place standards. Typically, that’s not a problem but her interpretation was not sensitive to the audience especially when the opinion was one-sided and she placed blame and tied it to the modern day political landscape — simply saying things haven’t changed much today and implying that all of those things still exist on a large scale in America. ‬

‪When challenged by a teacher and myself, she said she disagreed with facts and quickly moved on to another topic. ‬

‪I acknowledge that our (U.S.) history has some ugly sides to it, however, we have been and continue to evolve and improve but to say that things haven’t changed is a false interpretation. To also say that that since the civil rights act the EEOC act was ONLY 50 years ago is not factual and is only opinion based. ‬

‪Educators should state the facts. Educators should educate an audience on the opinions of both sides. They should not be emotionally involved and should be partial to the truth. The museum and the rest of the staff were great. The museum was wonderful. I loved the abundant artifacts and the knowledgeable staff. Our guide, a younger woman with short hair, brunette color, was out of line and it was very disappointing to experience. In my opinion, it’s borderline abusive to falsely interpret history and attempt to educate young impressionable minds with...

We visited the Baltimore Museum of Industry after searching for an inside activity with friends for a very rainy day. It was a great find, and we were found it very interesting. It holds a very well done displayed collection of numerous industries from the Baltimore Inner Harbor area. The museum is located in the one very well preserved building of the noted 100 canning facilities that were in the city. The beginnings of canning was interesting, plus other rooms displaying a sample blacksmith shop, garment production, print shop, car and transportation information, Bethlehem Steel, plus more. Each room had a lot to see.

The man checking us in was very welcoming and friendly, and while we were there with a middle school tour, it was easy to work our self guided visit around the group (and found it fun to see the kids excitement as their guide explained the blacksmith shop etc.)

The museum has a large open area that looks out on the harbor with a beautiful view. I wish we could have been able to see it from the outside. That open space appears to be available for events as it had large round tables and chairs set up ( see other reviewer’s picture of tables set) and the facility also has smaller classrooms that we saw a group of the students in for part of their tour.

Overall the museum was of good size. We spent about 1.5-2 hours there. You could spend more time if your group liked reading every display, but this amount of time was very good for a self guided tour of all of the rooms and subjects.

The large free parking lot attached was right in front and we then walked to Little Havana’s a block down for a delicious lunch. ( no real parking there at the restaurant).

I would highly recommend the Baltimore Museum of Industry for ages middle school to adults. While a few things ( like a 50’s car you could get into) said Please Touch, it overall would be too much for little kids to understand. For us with two engineers along in our group of four it was fun and interesting and well done, but you don’t need engineers along to...

Came here with my friends on a middle school 8th grade end of year trip a few weeks ago. It was really cool to see how the machines shaped Baltimore and learn some interesting things. The history part me and the boys thought was super boring so we walked off as the teacher was talking to the group and did our own thing. We looked at some of the cool exhibits and machines they have and we even saw a bakery. We told our female teacher Mrs smith to get in the kitchen where she belongs and bake us some bread. Back in those days that’s where a women belonged is in the kitchen while us men put hair on our chest and busted our ass by a hot furnace is some steel mill or something like that. She wasn’t too happy we disrespected her like that but we didn’t care. Me and the boys Connor, nick, Ryan and Alex went off exploring and got lost in the museum. Some staff members helped us find our way around and were super friendly, knowledgeable and nice. They explained some of the exhibits and equipment in a much less boring way than our teachers did. We were so happy to actually have fun learning and get the teachers off our asses for a good hour or so. Then me and the boys went to the bathroom and splashed each other with water on the crotch and made it look like we peed ourselves. The teachers were gutted by our behavior but we had fun so YOLO FAM 😂. Would I recommend this place ? Absolutely it’s amazing and a lot to learn. If u come as a family set aside a good 4 hours because their is a lot to see...