The Jewish Museum of Maryland

The newly renovated museum is bright and inviting. There are always interesting new exhibits featuring art, music, history, and other aspects of the Jewish experience in Maryland. A guided tour of the historic synagogue is included in the price of admission. Definitely worth a visit!

Our tour guide Nancy was extremely knowledgeable, friendly and interesting to speak with! Our group was really great too! What wonderful ex

I went on a rainy day but most of the museum and tour are in the inside. There is the main museum and then a synagogue on either side. The main building has two exhibits and a gift shop. Make sure you check out the gift shop before they close as they close promptly on the dot. They had jewelry, mezuzahs, kids toys, etc. I unfortunately did not get to check it out as I ran out of time. The main exhibit (Voices of Lombard Street) is a tour around a Jewish neighborhood area and a personal visit to a Jewish home and deli. Very personal details and definitely informative. Be prepared to read a lot. The second exhibit was Blacklist The Hollywood Red Scare. I did not understand nor appreciate this exhibit as much as the other. I saw this last and feel I did not have enough time to read and understand what was going on and how it was related to the Jewish people. I was lucky enough to be there during a scheduled tour time of the synagogues. This was my favorite part. The first one we saw is no longer in use but you hear the history, see some original parts of the building and see the service area. The second synagogue is still in use. It was very intriguing to see the inside as a non Jewish person. I would recommend seeing this even if you are not Jewish. It is a part of history and interesting. We had to walk in the rain for part of the tour but that did not bother me.

Really cool exhibit on the cultures of Lombard Street and the multicultural enclaves in East Baltimore. You would expect to see exhibits mostly on Jewish culture in the area, but the museum did an excellent job detailing the multicultural history of East Baltimore. Focus was on early 20th century Lloyd street area. Learned a lot about the various businesses and life in East Baltimore . Also what appears to be a temporary exhibit on Soviet Jews and the process of bringing the "refusniks" to America. Really identified with that one. Highlight was a synagogue tour of two historic synagogues on Lloyd st. with David, a local who grew up in the area and knows a ton about the history of Judaisim in Maryland and Baltimore. Learned so much! Highly recommended!

This place was really interesting! We spent about 2.5 hours here, which was more than I expected to for a small museum with only two exhibits, but there’s so much reading to do and the exhibits are really interesting. We came for the Blacklist exhibit but ended up loving the Voices of Lombard Street too. The person who checked us in was very nice.