Discover a fixture of working-class neighborhoods throughout Baltimore. A place to drink, discuss and find community among the regulars.

The Rise and Fall of Bethlehem Steel explores the story of Baltimore’s Sparrows Point steel mill, once the world’s largest producer of the world’s most important product. The mill’s well-paying union jobs supported countless Baltimoreans and nourished close-knit communities.

The museum is housed in an 1865 waterfront cannery, once owned by Platt and Company, and is the only surviving cannery building in Baltimore. Oysters from the Chesapeake Bay were canned here, as were fruits and vegetables from Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Named for Alonzo Decker, a co-founder of Black + Decker, this gallery overlooks the beauty of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and features icons of local innovation: Head skis, Sweetheart straws, and Decker’s own cordless drill.

Feel the heat of the forge and the vibration of a belt-driven machine shop in this gallery exploring the history of machinists, blacksmiths, and the impact of the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904.

This gallery explores the role of neighborhood pharmacies, where customers could pick up prescriptions, buy a camera, and have lunch served by a “soda jerk” at the counter, and how pharmacies have changed over time.

See a working 1936 Linotype machine, vintage printing presses, and learn about the legacy of the AFRO NEWS, the nation’s longest running Black-owned family newspaper, still in business today.

Few people in 1910 could imagine how the automobile would change daily life. Fueling the Automobile Age looks at Baltimore-based Amoco and Crown-Central petroleum companies and the impact they made on American automobile culture.

Tap-Talk-Text: Telecommunications in Maryland: In 1844 Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, asking “What hath God wrought?” and we haven’t looked back on the role of telecommunications since.

Explore a circa-1929 garment loft similar to those once key to Baltimore’s industrial development. Local garment-makers produced uniforms for Union soldiers during the Civil War, and later specialized in creating men’s hats and ties.

If Baltimore had a signature flavor it would have to be OLD BAY, created by an immigrant fleeing Nazi Germany. This spicy story is tucked among other tales of industrial success including Parks Sausage, the first Black-owned company to offer a sale of public stock, and a look at local bakeries and meat processing companies.