The Peale’s Fall 2018 Campaign launches today

The $50,000 goal will help make the historic building safe and accessible for all.

A reception for the Architecture/Baltimore exhibition from 6-8pm this evening kicks off the Peale’s campaign to fund an elevator and upgrades to safety and accessibility features for the Peale Museum building. For more information, download the Fall 2018 Campaign Press Release here.

Now Open! Architecture/Baltimore Exhibition

Architecture/Baltimore

Thu-Sat 6-10pm; Sun 9am-5pm & by appointment

  • Reception & Talk by Steve Ziger: 6-8pm Wed, Sept 26
  • Artists’ Talk: 12-1pm Sun, Oct 7

Free admission with suggested donation to reception and talks.

Photographs of places of Baltimore’s worship, museums, schools, breweries, theaters, galleries, historical sites, converted industrial structures, and more by Vivian Doering, Brian P. Miller and Andrew Nagl, made in cooperation with the Baltimore Architecture Foundation and AIA Baltimore for Doors Open.

Episode One of the Institute of Visionary History opens tonight!

September 13-30 | Thu-Sat 7-10pm; Sun 2-5pm
The Institute of Visionary History and the Archives of the Deep Now: Episode One
Tickets $15-45

From the creators of H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum!, a new immersive experience from Submersive Productions. Participants are invited to unravel the mysteries of a centuries-old secret society and their uncanny methods for re-visioning new histories heretofore untold. Each experience runs 30-45 minutes for a group of about five people. For Episode One, we join Harriet Tubman at a crucial juncture to ask “How does one prevent catastrophe?” 

New extended evening hours!

An old-fashioned pocket watch with the words Have you considered Time Travel?
Time Travel is coming in September!

To coincide with the opening of Episode One of the Institute of Visionary History and Archives of the Deep Now, we are delighted to announce new, extended visiting hours at the Peale through September 30th:

  • Thu, Fri, & Sat 7-10pm
  • Sunday 9am-5pm

Enjoy the Peale Gallery, Shop, Escapement Time Travel Agency, and the Architecture/Baltimore exhibition (from September 16) before or after visiting the Archives.

One night only at the Peale! “Wasted” 7 September


Friday, Sept 7 | 8pm (doors 7:30pm)

Wasted 

Tickets $25/$20 

Presented by Baltimore Center Stage in partnership with the Peale, Wasted explores consensual sex and what can happen when lines, and memories, are blurred. Award winning Irish writer and director Kat Woods presents a completely original theatrical experience like no other play that you will see in Baltimore this fall.

Tickets now on sale for Submersive’s new production at the Peale!

13-30 September | Thu-Sat 7-10pm; Sun 2-5pm 

Tickets are now on sale for the Institute of Visionary History and Archives of the Deep Now, the latest experience devised by Submersive Productions for the Peale Center!

Each experience runs 30-45 minutes for a group of about five people. The Archives of the Deep Now have been recreated by Submersive from instructions left behind by The Institute of Visionary History before they mysteriously vanished in 1997. Each box from The Archives contains an experiment designed to conjure visions of the past in order to ask a specific question. For Episode One, we join Harriet Tubman at a crucial juncture to ask “How does one prevent catastrophe?”

New episodes will be explored in September, October, and November of 2018. We will begin with guided experiences as we discover together the mysterious forces at work in theArchives of the Deep Now. Later in the Fall, guests will have the opportunity to explore and choose their own experiments from The Archive. We will be selling tickets a few weeks at a time, and unveiling new episodes as we gather and incorporate data from our guests.

More details here…

Follow the project’s brand-new Facebook page!

September 9th build a bee house in the Peale’s pollinator garden!

Solitary Bee House Construction Workshop

12:30-3pm Sunday, September 9, 2018
$25 per adult includes materials

Led by Ashley G. Kidner

Learn how to build bee houses and motels for our native bees and wasps, and take home your own solitary bee house!

15 participants are required for the workshop to run, with a maximum of 25. Children under 16 attend free with a ticketed adult. Get your tickets here!

Some may be surprised to learn that most bees do not live in hives; each has its own solitary nest. Solitary bees are are not aggressive and rarely if ever sting unless attacked or stepped upon, and even then their stings are not painful compared to honeybees.

With bee populations in decline, any help we can give them in the form of dry and safe homes for their eggs helps contribute to the survival not just of the bee species, but to all the trees and plants they pollinate as well – not to mention those of us who depend on this crucial ecosystem. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to build a solitary bee house before the Autumn weather sets in, helping a new bee emerge in the Spring to carry on their important work as pollinators.

Materials including nesting tubes (cardboard and organic), wooden blocks, a limited amount of wooden boxes and tools for construction will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring their own wooden boxes such as wine and/or cigar boxes which could be suitable to convert into bee houses.

About the instructor: Ashley Kidner is a Baltimore-based land artist and designer of the Peale’s pollinator garden. Kidner also runs International Landscaping & Design, specializing in pollinator, wildlife and rain gardens.