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The Maryland Science Center is a science museum located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The center was opened by the Maryland Academy of Sciences in 1976, with expansions in 1986 and 2004. The museum's attractions include several permanent interactive exhibits, traveling exhibits, a planetarium, a demonstration stage, an observatory, a Segway station and an IMAX theater. The "Fossil Quest" exhibit features fossils from all over the state. "Follow the Blue Crab" looks at the connection between the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, and features a large mechanical blue crab. "Newton's Alley" has many activities that illustrate Sir Issac Newton's scientific principles, and "Dinosaur Mysteries" inc...
The Maryland Science Center is a science museum located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The center was opened by the Maryland Academy of Sciences in 1976, with expansions in 1986 and 2004. The museum's attractions include several permanent interactive exhibits, traveling exhibits, a planetarium, a demonstration stage, an observatory, a Segway station and an IMAX theater. The "Fossil Quest" exhibit features fossils from all over the state. "Follow the Blue Crab" looks at the connection between the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, and features a large mechanical blue crab. "Newton's Alley" has many activities that illustrate Sir Issac Newton's scientific principles, and "Dinosaur Mysteries" inclues more than 12 full-sized dinosaurs and live lizard exhibits. The IMAX theater, added in 1987, is five stories tall and plays both regular and 3-D films. The center participates in community programs such as an overnight "camp-in" for scout troops and middle-school children, and a summer camp for kids.
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Arts calendar
fine art Museums Baltimore Museum of Art Art Museum Drive at North Charles and 31st streets. 443-573-1700. Free admission. Hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays. Through Oct. 19:Bonnard & Vuillard. Reginald F....Tags: Bodies of Water, IMAX, Suzanne Farrell, University of Maryland, Poetry
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Activities
activities events 32nd Street Farmers' Market Open year-round, 7 a.m.-noon Saturdays at 32nd Street in Waverly. Shoppers will find fresh produce, plants, breads, ethnic foods and more. Go to 32ndstreetmarket.org. Baltimore Farmers' Market Open Sundays...Tags: Toys, Druid Hill, Homewood, National Government, Furniture
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Free Fall Baltimore schedule
ART & MUSEUMS
BABE RUTH BIRTHPLACE AND MUSEUM Enjoy free admission every Friday during October. Hours: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. at 216 Emory Place.
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD MUSEUM Explore the museum's historicsteam engine collection. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 21 at...Tags: Vehicles, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, IMAX, National Government, Poetry
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Cheap Trick Thursday: free or frugal entertainment options
baltimoresun.comYou may have heard about Free Fall Baltimore, a month of chances to catch dance, theater, visual art and musical performance all for the low low price of nothing. Use the "search" function of your browser on this Free Fall Baltimore schedule if you've got... -
'Body Worlds 2' exhibit drew 327,054 visitors
Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds 2, which set an attendance record for a traveling museum exhibit in Baltimore, drew 327,054 visitors during its seven-month run at the Maryland Science Center, according to the exhibitors. The show, which features dissected...Tags: Labor Day
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Baltimore's inner charm
Special to amNewYorkNew Yorkers donšt have to travel far for a little Southern comfort. Just three hours south on Amtrak, sits Baltimore. Dubbed 'Charm City,' this proud working and middle class town gets a bad rap, thanks in part to television dramas like "The Wire" and...Tags: Minority Groups, History, Murder, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Wire
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City OKs parking tax raise
The Baltimore City Council voted yesterday to increase the parking tax and use the expected $4.5 million in revenue to operate a fleet of shuttle buses to ferry people around downtown neighborhoods. Trips in the hybrid shuttles would be free to...Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sheila Dixon, State Budgets, Fells Point
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Let's think sustainably
Cap and trade" is the rage today as a primary solution to global warming. But the European Union's struggle with this approach indicates it has an uncertain future. This is because global warming, at its core, is not a technology or policy problem....Tags: Florida, University of Maryland, State Budgets, Conservation, Maryland
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Dragon invasion at Inner Harbor
Harold A. Smith was in China when he first spotted dragon boats.
Chinese crew members were paddling their boats through Hong Kong's harbor while a crowd watched. Smith, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, was smitten...Tags: Christianity, Roman Catholic
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Film schedule
SEPTEMBER THROUGH SEPT. 30 A Glimpse of de Kooning, National THROUGH OCT. 2 Movies, Motion and Media: Altered Perspectives, A Film Series, Stevenson SEPT. 16-30 MICA Maryland Film Festival Film Series, MICA SEPT. 6 Afghanistan on Film, National SEPT. 6-...Tags: Bodies of Water, Vehicles, Owings Mills, Culture, Film Festivals
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Top 10 fall events to cure your end-of-summer blues
Baltimoresun.com staffNo more weekend trips downy ocean, hon. Kids are back in school; neighborhood snowball stands are beginning to close their doors; and the summer festival season is winding down. But, on a more positive note, you can finally say goodbye to that sticky,...Tags: Bodies of Water, Parkville, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Rock and Roll Music
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'Body Worlds' draws a record attendance
A lively display of dead bodies that ends its seven-month run at the Maryland Science Center on Monday has smashed local museum attendance records to become the most popular traveling exhibit in Baltimore history, drawing more than 300,000 visitors,...Tags: Claude Monet, Maryland, Gardens and Parks, Baltimore Museum of Art, Corporate Officers
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