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All activities listed are FREE on the dates and times noted. Many events require advance reservations. All dates, artists and venues subject to change. Please check organization’s website or call directly to confirm reservation information, seating availability or specific details. For directions call the presenting organization or visit www.mapquest.com
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Free Destinations
More than 70 art, heritage and cultural organizations will offer free events and programs during Free Fall Baltimore. In addition, the following museums offer free admission on the dates and times indicated.
Free admission
year round |
Baltimore Museum of Art |
Wed-Fri 11am-5pm
Sat & Sun 11am-6pm |
Art & Museums |
Free admission throughout month |
The Contemporary Museum |
Wed-Sun 10am-5pm
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Art & Museums |
Free admission
year round |
The Walters Art Museum |
Wed-Sun 10am-5pm |
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Arts and Museums
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD MUSEUM
Steam Power
Explore the museum's historic one-of-a-kind steam engine collection. Entertaining and educational programs will highlight the steam era dating between 1830 & 1947. Learn about the Tom Thumb, the first American built steam engine; the William Mason, the oldest operating steam engine; the 1604, one of the largest & most powerful steam engines ever built; and the restoration of the Memnon, the oldest existing freight engine built in 1848.
Tue Oct 21 10am – 4pm
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum – 901 W. Pratt Street
No advance reservations required.
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BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
ArtBlast: Big and Small & Family Workshops
Explore art big and small at the 3rd Annual ArtBlast, a fun-filled day of performances, art-making and gallery activities for all ages! From the larger-than-life lions that greet you at the BMA’s front steps to hand-crafted miniature rooms, at ArtBlast, art comes in all shapes and sizes. Investigate strange, playful and simply gigantic works in this fall’s special exhibition Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof, then head into the studio to make your own supersized sculpture. Take a bite-sized tour for wee-ones, experience mini food tastings, and dance to big sounds performed by local talent. For a complete list of activities, visit artbma.org
Sun Oct 26 11am - 5pm rain or shine
Family Workshops:
Sun Oct 5 2pm - 4pm Ancient American Clay Figures
Sun Oct 12 2pm - 4pm Native American Art Beadwork
Sun Oct 19 2pm - 4pm Drumming in the Pacific Islands
Baltimore Museum of Art – 10 Art Museum Drive
No advance reservations required.
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BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY
Print for All
lThrough demonstrations, drop-in activities and an interactive workshop, museum programs will explore the creative and artistic side of printing, as well as provide an historical context for developments in the printing industry. Informational museum tours throughout the weekend.
Sat Oct 4 10am – 4pm
Trained professionals demonstrate the museum’s 19th century printing presses, its Acorn Press, Linotype Machine and Chandler Press. Children will learn how to use a 19th Century letter press to print their own souvenir label, inspired by labels once printed in the Platt Oyster Cannery building, home of the BMI.
Sun Oct 5 11am – 4pm
11am Family-Friendly Hands-on Workshop and Printing Demonstration on silk screening, linoleum and/or wood block printing. Participants will decorate their own t-shirts. Reservations for the workshop must be made by phone 410-727-4808 x132 or by contacting the museum’s Visitor Services Assistant at gmorris@thebmi.org
Label printing activity and guided tours also available throughout the day.
Baltimore Museum of Industry – 1415 Key Highway
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CENTER FOR ART, DESIGN & VISUAL CULTURE, UMBC
Paul Rand: Modernist Design in Context
A lecture on the internationally recognized designer’s life and work by Chris Pullman, vice president for Visual Communications, WGBH Television, Boston. A panel discussion will follow offering reflections on Rand’s personal vision and his immense impact on the world of twentieth century design. Panelists include: Steven Heller, senior art director, The New York Times and author of Paul Rand; Franc Nunoo Quarcoo, author of Paul Rand: Modernist Design and curator of Paul Rand: Modernist Design in Context; Gerald Gross, editor and president of Gerald Gross Associates, LLC; and Adam Gross, partner with Ayers, Saints, Gross Architects. The program is being sponsored in partnership with AIA Baltimore.
Wed Oct 22 6pm
Baltimore Museum of Art – 10 Art Museum Drive
Free passes may be reserved by calling 410-455-3188.
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CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM
Storytelling Exhibition and Workshop
Kianga Ford: My Life in Fiction
The Contemporary Museum presents a solo exhibition by Boston-based artist Kianga Ford, whose engaging and participatory works merge sound, theatre and customs of storytelling to create artworks that actively involve the audience in temporal, site-specific experiences. Here her work will immerse visitors in a new fiction about the neighborhood surrounding the museum.
Wed – Sun noon – 5pm throughout Oct
The Architecture of Memory: A Storytelling Workshop for ages 15 & up
Chezia Thompson Cager, Faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art
Sat Oct 4 2pm – 6pm
Contemporary Museum – 100 W. Centre Street
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