MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

MUSEUMS

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY


[photo, Darnall's Chance, 14800 Gov. Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, Maryland] Abraham Hall
7612 Old Muirkirk Road, Beltsville, MD 20705
(240) 264-3415; tdd: 301-699-2544
web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Abraham_Hall.htm


Darnall's Chance, 14800 Gov. Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, October 2006. Photo by Diane F. Evartt


Airmen Memorial Museum
Air Force Sergeants Association International Headquarters
5211 Auth Road, Suitland, MD 20746
(301) 899-3500, ext. 228; 1-800-638-0594; fax: (301) 899-8136
web: www.visitmaryland.org/listing/history-heritage/airman-memorial-museum

Battle of Bladensburg Visitor Center & Waterfront Park
4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg, MD 20710
(301) 927-8819; tdd: (301) 699-2544
e-mail: help4smartlink@pgparks.com
web: www.mncppc.org/1414/Battle-of-Bladensburg-Visitor-Center

Belair Mansion
12207 Tulip Grove Drive, Bowie, MD 20715 - 2340
(301) 809-3089; tdd: (301) 262-5013
e-mail: pwilliams@cityofbowie.org
web: www.cityofbowie.org/288/Belair-Mansion

Belair Stable Museum
2835 Belair Drive, Bowie, MD 20715 - 2340
(301) 809-3089; tdd: (301) 262-5013
e-mail: pwilliams@cityofbowie.org
web: www.cityofbowie.org/289/Belair-Stable-Museum

Billingsley House Museum
6900 Green Landing Road, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
(301) 627-0730; tdd: (301) 699-2544; fax: (301) 627-7085
e-mail: billingsley@pgparks.com
web: http://outdoors.pgparks.com/Sites/Billingsley_Point.htm

Bowie Railroad Museum
8614 Chestnut Ave., Bowie, MD 20715 - 3732
(301) 809-3089; tdd: (301) 262-5013
e-mail: pwilliams@cityofbowie.org
web: www.cityofbowie.org/293/Bowie-Railroad-Museum

College Park Aviation Museum
College Park Airport, 1985 Corporal Frank Scott Drive, College Park, MD 20740
(301) 864-6029; tdd: (301) 699-2544; fax: (301) 927-6472
e-mail: aviationmuseum@pgparks.com
web: www.collegeparkaviationmuseum.com/home.htm

Columbia Air Center
16000 Croom Airport Road, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
(301) 627-6074; tdd: (301) 699-2544
web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Columbia_Air_Center.htm


[photo, Darnall's Chance, 14800 Gov. Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, Maryland] Darnall's Chance
14800 Gov. Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
(301) 952-8010; tdd: (301) 699-2544
e-mail: darnallschance@pgparks.com
web: www.pgparks.com/page41532.aspx

Darnall's Chance, 14800 Gov. Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, October 2007. Photo by Diane F. Evartt


Dinosaur Park
13100 Mid-Atlantic Blvd., Laurel, MD 20708
(301) 627-1286; tdd: (301) 699-2544
web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Dinosaur_Park.htm

Dorsey Chapel
10704 Brookland Road, Glenn Dale, MD 20769
(301) 352-5544, (240) 264-3415; tdd: (301) 699-2544
web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Dorsey_Chapel.htm

Fort Washington Park
13551 Fort Washington Road, Fort Washington, MD 20744 - 7044
(301) 763-4600; fax: (301) 763-1389
web: www.nps.gov/fowa/index.htm

Gateway Arts Center (part of Gateway Arts District)
3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood, MD 20722
(301) 277-2863; tdd: (301) 699-2544; fax: (301) 277-2865
web: http://arts.pgparks.com/Our_Facilities/Brentwood_Arts_Exchange_Gateway_Arts_Center.htm

Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center
ICESat Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771 - 2400
(301) 286-8981
e-mail: catherine.maynard@nasa.gov
web: www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/home/index.html

Greenbelt Museum
Historic House, 10B Crescent Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770
(301) 507-6582
e-mail: info@greenbeltmuseum.org
web: www.greenbeltmuseum.org/

John Wayne Museum
6860 Race Track Road, Bowie, MD 20715
(301) 526-3481
(closed in Jan. 2015)

Laurel Museum
Laurel Historical Society, 817 Main St., Laurel, MD 20707
(301) 725-7975
e-mail: info@laurelhistoricalsociety.com
web: www.laurelhistoricalsociety.org/

Marietta House Museum (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Gabriel Duvall)
5626 Bell Station Road, Glenn Dale, MD 20769
(301) 464-5291; tdd: (301) 699-2544; fax: (301) 464-5654
web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Marietta_House_Museum.htm

Montpelier Mansion
9650 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, MD 20708
(301) 377-7817; tdd: (301) 699-2544; (301) 377-7818
e-mail: montpeliermansion@pgparks.com
web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Montpelier_Mansion.htm

Mount Calvert Historical & Archaeological Park
16801 Mount Calvert Road, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
(301) 627-1286; tdd: 301-699-2544
web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Mount_Calvert_Historical_and_Archaeological_Park.htm

National Capital Radio & Television Museum
2608 Mitchellville Road, Bowie, MD 20716
(301) 390-1020
e-mail: info@ncrtv.org
web: http://ncrtv.org/

National Children's Museum
(301) 392-2400
e-mail: info@ncm.museum
web: www.ncm.museum/


[photo, Red Devon Cattle, National Colonial Farm Museum, Accokeek, Maryland] National Colonial Farm Museum
Accokeek Foundation, 3400 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, MD 20607
(301) 283-2113
e-mail: info@accokeek.org
web: https://accokeekfoundation.org/agriculture/#1460501984799-afabac79-5e53

Red Devon Cattle, National Colonial Farm Museum, Accokeek, Maryland, May 2011. Photo by Diane F. Evartt


National Museum of Language
(301) 864-7071
web: http://languagemuseum.org/

Newton White Mansion
2708 Enterprise Road, Mitchellville, MD 20721
(301) 249-2004; tdd: (301) 699-2544; fax (301) 249-8009
e-mail: nwmansion@pgparks.com
web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Newton_White_Mansion.htm

Northhampton Slave Quarters Archaeological Site
10915 Water Port Court, Bowie, MD 20721
(301) 627-1286; tdd: (301) 699-2544
web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Northampton_Slave_Quarters_and_Archaeological_Park.htm

Nottingham School
(301) 464-5291; tdd: (301) 699-2544
web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Nottingham_School.htm

Oxon Cove Park & Oxon Hill Farm
6411 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, MD 20745 - 1100
(301) 839-1176; fax: (301) 567-8050
web: www.nps.gov/oxhi/index.htm


[photo, Charles Duckett Freedman's Cabin, Patuxent River Park, 16000 Croom Airport Road, Upper Marlboro, Maryland] Patuxent Rural Life Museums, include:
  • Blacksmith Shop with Farrier & Tack Shop
  • Charles Duckett Log Cabin
  • Hunting, Fishing, & Trapping Museum
  • Sears sectional house
  • Tobacco Farming Museum
  • W. Henry Duvall Tool Museum

    Patuxent River Park, 16000 Croom Airport Road, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 - 8395
    (301) 627-6074; tdd: (301) 699-2544
    web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Patuxent_Rural_Life_Museums.htm

    Charles Duckett Freedman's Cabin, Patuxent River Park, 16000 Croom Airport Road, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, April 2014. Photo by Diane F. Evartt


    [photo, W. Henry Duvall Tool Museum, Patuxent River Park, 16000 Croom Airport Road, Upper Marlboro, Maryland]

    W. Henry Duvall Tool Museum, Patuxent River Park, 16000 Croom Airport Road, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, April 2014. Photo by Diane F. Evartt


    Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge
    e-mail: Jennifer_Hill@fws.gov
    web: www.fws.gov/refuge/Patuxent/

    Poplar Hill on His Lordship's Kindness
    7606 Woodyard Road, Clinton, MD 20735
    (301) 856-0358
    e-mail: poplarhillonhlk@gmail.com
    web: www.poplarhillonhlk.com/index.html

    Prince George's African American Museum & Cultural Center
    4519 Rhode Island Ave., North Brentwood, MD 20722
    (301) 809-0440
    e-mail: info@pgaamcc.org
    web: www.pgaamcc.org/

    Prince George's County Hall of Fame
    (301) 220-0330
    e-mail: info@pghistory.org
    web: http://pghistory.org/main/hall-of-fame/

    Ridgeley Rosenwald School
    8507 Central Ave., Capitol Heights, MD 20743
    (301) 333-6560, (240) 264-3415; tdd: (301) 699-2544
    web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Ridgeley_Rosenwald_School.htm

    Riversdale House Museum (Calvert Mansion)
    4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park, MD 20737
    (301) 864-0420; tdd: (301) 699-2544
    e-mail: riversdale@pgparks.com
    web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Riversdale_House_Museum.htm

    Seabrook Schoolhouse
    6116 Seabrook Road, Lanham, MD 20706
    (301) 464-5291; tdd: (301) 699-2544
    web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Seabrook_Schoolhouse.htm

    Snow Hill Manor
    13301 Laurel-Bowie Road, Laurel, MD 20708
    (301) 725-6037; tdd: (301) 699-2544; fax (301) 498-2053
    e-mail: snow.hill@pgparks.com
    web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Snow_Hill_Manor.htm

    Surratt House Museum (home of Mary Surratt, hanged as conspirator in Lincoln assassination)
    9118 Brandywine Road, Clinton, MD 20735
    (301) 868-1121; tdd: (301) 699-2544; fax: (301) 868-8177
    web: http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Surratt_House_Museum.htm

    University of Maryland Art Gallery
    2202 Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, 3834 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20742
    (301) 405-2763
    web: https://artgallery.umd.edu/

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