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City Guide > North America > Maryland > Baltimore | |
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Further Distractions Port Discovery, the Kid-Powered Museum Created by Walt Disney Imagineering, this unique museum is both fun and educational for the whole family. Some of its offerings include Kidworks, a three-storey tree house, where kids climb, crawl and swing, and Adventure Expeditions, which recreates a trek to ancient Egypt. Visitors get to play detective at Miss Perception’s Mystery House, where every room is filled with clues as to the whereabouts of the Baffield Family. Other exhibits include Sensation Station, a sensory experience for four-year-old and younger tots, including arts and crafts, a TV studio and movable dinosaurs. 35 Market Place Tel: (410) 727 8120. Website: www.portdiscovery.org Opening hours: Mon-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1000-1700 (May-Sep); Fri-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1200-1700 (Sept), Tues-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1200-1700 (Oct-May). Admission charge. Lexington Market Lexington Market is the stuff of everyday life - unusual characters, enjoyable smells and sights, the hubbub of commerce and the pleasures of people-watching. Established in 1782, it quickly became a market for farmers, who sold directly from their wagons, since there were no streets at this time. As it gained popularity (it now has 140 vendors), other craftspeople and vendors joined the throng, so that this, the oldest farmers’ market in the USA, became more diversified. Purchasing is purely optional but visitors should not be permitted to leave the market without sampling a Faidley crab cake. 400 West Lexington Street Tel: (410) 685 6169. Website: www.lexingtonmarket.com Opening hours: Mon-Sat 0830-1800. Free admission. American Visionary Art Museum This official centre for unusual, innovative, self-taught art leaves visitor either perplexed or awed. Except for one small, permanent exhibit of interesting but odd portraits, broken glass mosaics including one of George Washington, plus matchstick artwork, the museum displays are totally renovated every year. Running until April 2005 is an extremely fascinating exhibition, Tapestries of Survival - a series of appliquéd and stitched pictures chronicling a family’s Holocaust story. The new exhibit Holy H 2 O: Fluid Universe is an artistic exploration of the mythical, sacred and light-hearted role that water plays in our lives. 800 Key Highway Tel: (410) 244 1900. Website: www.avam.org Opening hours: Tues-Sun 1000-1800. Admission charge. |