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September 10, 2010

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Arts and culture is a Baltimore highlight

(ARA) - Just because the Orioles aren't playing baseball or you're not in the mood for crab cakes doesn't mean that you should put off visiting Baltimore until the summer or until crab cakes sound good.

Any time of year, Baltimore offers more to visitors than just a charming baseball sta

dium and terrific, fresh seafood. What most people don't know is the wealth of cultural opportunities that Charm City provides for both family and non-family vacations alike.

Two of Baltimore's must-see attractions for families are the B&O Railroad Museum and Geppi's Entertainment Museum.

Located in the historic southwest part of the city, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum houses the oldest, most comprehensive American railroad collection in the world. Inside the museum's 40-acre campus is where Baltimore businessmen, surveyors and engineers set about building the B&O Railroad in 1829, laying the first commercial long-distance track, building the first passenger station and inventing America's railroad.

An affiliate of the Smithsonian Museum, and an independent educational resource, the B&O Railroad Museum collects, preserves and interprets artifacts related to early American railroading, particularly the Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Western Maryland, and other mid-Atlantic railroads. Nearly 200 pieces of locomotives and rolling stock show the progression of technology from 1830 until today.

For the pop culture enthusiast, there is Geppi's Entertainment Museum, which is dedicated to presenting the story of popular culture since the nation's earliest days.

The museum was founded by Stephen Geppi, the president and CEO of Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. Geppi turned his childhood love of comics into the world's largest distributor of English language comic books, and the museum that bears his name gives guests the opportunity to walk through a timeline that parallels and is entwined with history as a whole.

If you want to leave the kids at home, there are plenty of cultural activities for grownups as well.

The Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art is one of the most important art collections in the world. Sisters Claribel and Etta Cone donated their entire collection of approximately 3,000 objects, including 500 works by Henri Matisse, the largest collection of Matisse in the world.

The sisters also acquired masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh, as well as a variety of textiles, jewelry, furniture and African, Asian, and Near Eastern art.

Baltimore offers travelers many cultural options. Find out how you can start your Charm City experience today.

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