Port Discovery (Children's Museum in Baltimore)

35 Market Place, Baltimore, MD 21202 · 410-727-8120

Open Monday-Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday, noon to 5:00pm

Closed on Mondays from October through May

$5 · Free for members

Come Here For:

• The opportunity to crawl through a kitchen sink and other equally quirky places in Miss Perception’s Mystery House, where children try to solve a mystery by following a set of clues.
• The Fill'er Up Station, a hands-on gas station where children can pump gas and check tires' air-pressure before setting on a virtual road trip.
• A three-story "urban" treehouse where children can walk on a rope bridge, climb mesh walls, and slide, crawl, and jump through a labyrinth of wood and steel.
• An indoor soccer field, where children can organize their own team or go one-on-one with a grown-up.
• The several labs and workshops that allow visitors to produce their own movie through digital animation, play DJ, paint and draw, and build all kinds of high-tech stuff.
• The ever-changing traveling exhibits that make the place a new experience every time you visit. Recent displays included Alice's Wonderland (which let children experience physics, motion, and scale) and Mother Goose Math Rhyme and Arithmetic.

Port Discovery is a treasure of hands-on activities. Favorites among visitors include a 50's style diner, where kids can cook their own food, charge it at the cash register, and then serve it to their parents in the authentic period booths. Once a month, a chef leads story time and cooking demonstration for children visiting the diner. History buffs love the Pharaoh’s tomb, a riddle game where children try to decipher hieroglyphics to make their way out of a pyramid.