Baltimore Public Works Museum

The Baltimore Public Works Museum was located at 751 Eastern Avenue, Pier 7 of the Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland. This museum provided a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how a large city provides public works utility services to its citizens. Exhibits also explained street lighting, road maintenance, and trash removal. An outdoor sculpture called Streetscape was an intricate model of a network of phone lines, street lights, storm drains and pipes for water, gas, and sewage disposal. The building housing this display is an operating sewage pumping station built in 1912.

The museum opened in 1982 and was operated under the auspices of the Baltimore Department of Public Works. On February 3, 2010, the city announced that the museum would close immediately due to budget constraints.^[1]

Since then, various efforts have been made to re-open the Baltimore Public Works Museum. Attendees of the centennial celebration event of the city's Montebello Water Filtration Plant in 2015 were given blue bags by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works that had printed on them www.PublicWorksMuseum.org, a website associated with a group called "Friends of the Public Works Museum" whose goal "is to reopen the Public Works Museum",^[2] though by 2017 that did not lead to a valid website.^[3] In 2016, the building was made a Baltimore City Landmark.

In 2018, a new effort was announced to renovate the facility and open an expanded museum called the "Public Works Experience".^[4]

The Public Works Experience Board of Directors is working to rejuvenate the museum into a hands-on, STEM-focused engagement to help visitors learn about the importance of public works. The facility is now^[when?] open to the public on the second Saturday of the month, from 10am - 2pm. ^[5]^{[full citation needed]}

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Kelly, Jacques (February 4, 2010). "Public Works Museum Closes". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013.
^ "Home Page". publicworksmuseum. Archived from the original on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
^ Wayback Machine archive search: last valid snapshot is 2016-10-11, with a redirect to different organization name held by a domain squatter as of 2017-06-23.
^ Yeager, Amanda (April 30, 2018). "$15M fundraising campaign underway to revive Baltimore's shuttered Public Works Museum". Baltimore Business Journal.
^ Ellis, Rachel, Executive Director January 2, 2023

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Science, natural history and medicine	Baltimore Public Works Museum Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge B. Olive Cole Pharmacy Museum Cylburn Nature Museum Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center Discovery Station Eden Mill Nature Center Lamar Heritage and Culture Center Maryland Science Center National Electronics Museum National Museum of Dentistry National Museum of Civil War Medicine National Museum of Health and Medicine National Wildlife Visitor Center at Patuxent Research Refuge Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine University of Maryland School of Nursing Living History Museum William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History
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