Member Celebration Week June 17-24, 2022

Enjoy special museum access and a courtyard reception as we kick-off Member Celebration Week!  Mingle with MCHC staff and members as you grab a bite and a sip. Libations from Manor Hill Brewing and Ellicott Distilling Company. Music provided by the Peabody Institute. Learn something new with curator-led highlights of our newest Ellicott City exhibition, Resilient: 250 Years of Ellicott City.

Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun photographer and author of Flickering Treasures, will lead a theater walking tour with fellow cinephile Joe Tropea, MCHC Curator of Films & Photographs. This two-mile walking tour includes a baker’s dozen of popular downtown theaters around Howard, Fayette, and Lexington Streets with a brief tour inside the LeMondo and Everyman. Tour begins and ends at the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Bring your walking shoes and a camera as Amy will share photo tips during the excursion. Registration is required.

Support for this exhibition is generously provided by PNC Bank.

Shop the Museum Store in-person and online starting today with a special 25% off MCHC member-only discount. Use the code MemberWeek2022 online. Enjoy the online and in-person discount through Member Celebration Week, June 19-24. Restrictions apply.

Go wild at The Maryland Zoo! The first 50 MCHC members to visit the MCHC membership table at the Zoo entrance on June 20 will receive a free ticket to feed the giraffes.

MCHC members can visit The Maryland Zoo for free from June 1 through July 31, 2022. Admission is granted to two adults and two children or one adult and three children, for a maximum of four-member guests. (Children under age 2 are always admitted for free and will not apply toward the four-guest maximum). Please bring your active MCHC membership card when visiting. Registration is encouraged.

Join MCHC Senior Reference Librarian Francis O’Neill and MCHC Library Associate, Micah Connor as they provide an in-depth discussion of the how-to’s of starting genealogical research at the Maryland Center for History and Culture and the H. Furlong Baldwin Library. Francis and Micah will show how to utilize the Library’s special collections, unique indexes, genealogical resources, and online databases. Brief time will also be allotted to begin your independent research. Registration is required.

Follow Friend of Green Mount and historian Lyle Garitty at Green Mount Cemetery as he leads a walking tour of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 notables found in the exhibition The Unfinished Revolution. Visit the graves of John Barney, Matilda O’Neill, and many more interred individuals of Green Mount Cemetery represented in the exhibition. Registration is required.

Twist and twirl wool into yarn with fiber artist, Master Spinner, and MD State Underwater Archaeologist Susan Langley at the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Getting involved in textiles while working as an underwater archaeologist in Canada, Susan learned from local women how to knit and then how to spin while attending pioneer fairs. Now she teaches workshops on the historical and archaeological contexts of fiber and spinning; sharing stories from her travels lecturing on fibers and fabrics—as well as using camel down on a drop spindle in Turkey.

Join Susan for this fiber adventure with an hour presentation and an hour of hands-on spinning. Participants will take home a drop spindle, handouts, and a sample of fiber. Registration is required.

Thank you! This program is full.

Explore the landscape at Hampton National Historic Site in Towson, MD. On this guided walking tour with National Park Service staff, learn how architecture influenced both the mansion and the gardens. For much of Hampton’s history, scenic gardening reflected the interests, social statuses, wealth, and creativity of the Ridgely family. From the 1790s to modern day, the cultural landscape of Hampton has changed to suit the wants and needs of those who occupy the property. Hampton’s landscape tells the story of the many functions of landscaping, labors, and people used to create scenic grounds. MCHC members will have the opportunity to ask questions and hear about the recent research beyond the Tracing Lives of the Enslaved ethnographic study with Curator, Hampton National Historic Site at NPS, Gregory Weidman. Registration is required.