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dating in-house catering and banquet services. Another option is The Prime Rib, which boasts a piano bar lounge, an intimate private dining room, a warm main dining room, and an outdoor patio with a fireplace and retractable roof.
Groups also will enjoy the casino's R Bar, a high-tech lounge and gaming experience that’s a full immersion into video, light and sound. Dining options on site at Maryland Live! include: The Prime Rib; Live! Buffet; Phillips Seafood; Luk Fu; Noodles Ramen Bar; Bobby's Burger Palace (Bobby Flay); and The Cheesecake Factory.
Learn more about the star-shaped fort at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine that defended the city during the Battle of Baltimore, September 13-14, 1814. The valiant defense of the fort inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Groups can take part in numerous hands-on programs, including the daily flag change and a number of interpretive programs.
Elite Fitness Tours (EFT) officially launched in March of 2014, and now offers services to Baltimore residents and visitors. EFT offers a unique exercise experience where visitors or residents alike can simultaneously explore local landmarks while getting a workout.
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, is the east coast’s largest African-American museum with rotating exhibitions, live performances, art workshops, a cafe serving soul food, and more that complements a perma- nent collection focused on Maryland his- tory and culture. For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People is on view now through February 28, 2015 and explores how artists, activists, immi- grants, and others have used the flag for their political and aesthetic purposes.
The exhibit also features Grace Wisher, a young African-American indentured ser- vant in the household of Mary Pickersgill, who worked on the original Star- Spangled Banner in the Flag House, which is on the same city block as the
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Reginald F. Lewis Museum. The exhibi- tion highlights Wisher’s contribution to the flag.
Visit one of Baltimore’s two free world- class art museums. The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) organizes and presents a variety of dynamic exhibitions and innovative programs throughout the year and frequently hosts special events with cultural and educational partners. Home to the internationally renowned Cone Collection, the BMA holds the largest and most significant Matisse works in the world. Outside the museum walls, experience the lavish Sculpture Garden.
To mark the museum’s 100th anniversary in 2014, the BMA is undergoing a $28 million renovation featuring new presen- tations of four outstanding collections; a dynamic learning and creativity center; and more. Visitors to the museum will be able to see the reopened Contemporary Wing, as well as “The Renoir Returns,” an exhibition of the Renoir painting On the Shore of the Seine that was stolen from the BMA 60 years ago.
Mount Vernon’s Walters Art Museum owns more than 25,000 pieces of art presenting an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe. Visitors to the museum will be able to see the summer exhibition: American Artists Abroad, which features work by Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler, among others. On June 23, the Walters closed the fourth floor of its Centre Street building to install a new exhibit celebrating the museum’s founders, William T. and Henry Walters, in honor of the venue’s 80th anniversary. The space will reopen on October 19, 2014.
The Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad Museum and the museum's signature building - the 1884 Baldwin Roundhouse- is a unique venue and an ideal location for corporate events, receptions and galas. Dating from the beginning of American railroading, the museum’s collection contains locomo- tives and rolling stock, historic buildings and small objects that document the
impact of the railroad on the growth and development of early railroading.
The current special exhibition, “The War Came By Train,” serves as the B&O’s pri- mary attraction for the five-year com- memoration of the Civil War’s sesquicen- tennial between April 2011 and December 2015. New exhibits added in 2013 include the 150th anniversary of West Virginia's Statehood and the involvement of the B&O Railroad in its creation, design, and use of armored rail- road cars, the Confederate raid against the B&O Railroad in Western Maryland.
The Baltimore Museum of Industry, locat- ed in Federal Hill, is a museum dedicat- ed to Baltimore’s industrial
history.
Learn about the city's role as one of the busiest and most important ports in America. See a replica of an early dock and dockmaster's shed. From food can- ning to broadcasting, visitors can inter- act with the technologies that forged the Industrial Revolution and brought America to the 21st century. Step into vividly recreated workshops on machin- ing, printing, garment making and metal- working. Walk through the original 1865 Platt Oyster Cannery structure, the only surviving cannery building in the city.
Visit the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House, home of Mary Pickersgill, the seamstress who worked on the flag that few above Fort McHenry during the
Battle of Baltimore. While there, view the ongoing exhibit Family of Flagmakers: The Women Who Created the Star- Spangled Banner.
Nestled at the base of historic Federal Hill in the south side of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, the American Visionary Art Museum is the national repository for the artworks created by self-taught artists. The building's architecture is an artistic creation unto itself, having won many international and national awards for its design and beauty. It is just a 10 minute walk from the Inner Harbor, or easily accessible by Water Taxi.
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