Exhibits
and
Museum Without Walls
 

Ongoing Exhibits at the Museum Without Walls

The Founding of Maryland: original sources at the Maryland State Archives
• A Relation of the Successefull beginnings of the Lord Baltemore's Plantation in Mary-land
• The Charter of Maryland
• Maryland's First Governor, Leonard Calvert - served from 1633 to 1647
• Examples of Early Laws of Government
• Maryland Day, March 25

Religious Freedom Under Law: original sources at the Maryland State Archives
• The United States Constitution - first printing in Maryland, September 22, 1787
• The Bill of Rights - signed by Thomas Jefferson (1791)
• Act Concerning Religion [known as the Act of Toleration] (April 21, 1649). GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Proceedings) 1637-1657 MSA S1071-2 (original) and GENERAL ASSEMBLY, UPPER HOUSE (Proceedings) MSA S 977-1, ff. 354-359 (official recorded version).  For an introduction and a transcription and illustrations (8mb) of the Act see: Gerald W. Johnson, The Maryland Act of Toleration (Annapolis: Maryland Hall of Records, 1973).   The original was on exhibit at the Library of Congress in Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, which continues as an electronic exhibit at http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html.
Images of the original (1649)
Images of the official recorded version
• See also: An Act Concerning Religion, April 21, 1649 An Interpretation and Tribute to the Citizen Legislators of Maryland. Archives of Maryland (Documents for the Classroom) MSA SC 2221-25.


One Man's Civil War: A Letter from Bull Run, July 26, 1861

Images of the Titanic From Maryland Newspapers

The Road From Frederick to Thurgood:   Black Baltimore in Transition, 1870-1920

African American History at the Archives
 
 

Exhibit of Governors' Portraits in the Governor's Reception Room

The Maryland Federalist: Replica of 1788 Baltimore parade ship

Portraits of First Ladies & Official Hostesses of Maryland from the State Collection(Exhibition in Government House from March 1995 - January 1996. A number of these portraits are still on display there.)

A Baltimore Watchman: Drawings by Alfred Jacob Miller from the Walters Art Gallery. (Exhibition in Government House from January - July 1996)

Sisters' Passion for the Arts: A Glimpse of the Cone Collection (Exhibition in Government House from September 1996 - January 1997)

Traveling Exhibit

Colonial Encounters in the Chesapeake: The Natural World of Native American, Europeans and Africans, 1585-1800

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