MUSEUMS IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY

Special Sources:

Maryland's Historical & Cultural Museums Directory, Maryland Historical & Cultural Publications, Crownsville, MD, June 1993, ISBN: 1-878399-52-7, pp. 19-23, Prince George's County Museums. SEE ALSO ARCHITECTURE, AVIATION, BLACK HISTORY, FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY, HOUSES, MILITARY, MUSEUMS, HISTORICAL SITES, TECHNOLOGY, TOWNS

Note: Much of the following list is taken from the above-mentioned publication, 1993-94 ed.

Airmen Memorial Museum
5211 Auth Road
Suitland, MD 20746
Museum Director: George E. Hicks, (301) 899-8386
Hours: MF 8:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Facilities: Military museum, library, work room, oral history tapes, archives, storage room Collections: WWII color photography exhibit; reproduction of 1950s orderly room; William S. Phillips aviation artwork; WWI uniforms, personal items, memorabilia, broad sides, posters, journals.

Belair Mansion & Belair Stable Museum
2835 Belair Drive
City Hall
Bowie, MD 20715
Mailing Address: 2614 Kenhill Drive, Bowie, MD 20715
Director: Stephen L. Penn, (301) 262-6200
Hours: Open Sundays during May, June, September and October, 1-4 p.m.
Facilities: historic site, historic house, stables, gift shop, storage room
Collections: horse-racing artifacts and memorabilia, historic structures and furnishings, personal artifacts, tools and equipment, printed ephemera, photographs, rare books, archaeological items, artwork.

Calvert Mansion (Riversdale), M-NCPPC
6005 48th Avenue
Riverdale, MD 20737
Mailing address: 48111 Riverdale Road, Riverdale, MD 20737
Manager: (301) 864-0420
Hours: Sunday afternoons and other times by appointment; archives open by appointment M-TH 9a.m.-4p.m.
Facilities: historic house, gift store, archives, work room
Collections: structures, furnishings, printed ephemera, photographs, manuscripts and documents, oral tapes, archaeological items.

Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum
Mears Avenue & C Street
P.O. Box 783
Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732
Hours: May-Sept., daily 1-4 p.m. April-Oct., Sat-Sun only 1-4 p.m.
Collections: railroad and amusement park memorabilia, photographs, railroad equipment, railroad car, personal and recreational artifacts.

College Park Airport Museum, M-NCPPC
6709 Corporal Frank Scott Drive
College Park, MD 20740
Museum manager: Karin Thiessen, (301) 864-1530
Hours: W-F 11a.m.-3p.m.; Sat. & Sun. 11a.m.-5p.m.
Facilities: historic site, airfield, park, library, meeting room, temporary exhibit space, gift store, archives, storage room.
Collections: personal artifacts, oral history tapes, transportation, artifacts, tools and equipment, 5,000 photographs relating to the history of College Park Airport, printed ephemera, aviation books, aircraft parts, instruments, textiles, artwork.

Darnall's Chance, M-NCPPC
14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Museum Manager: Mary Haley Amen, (301) 952-8010
Hours: Sundays, noon-4p.m.; weekdays by appointment
Facilities: historic hours and site, burial vault, meeting room, rental space, exhibit areas, gift shop. Collections: historical structures, 18th century archeological artifacts.

Fort Washington Park
Fort Washington, MD
c/o National Capital Parks, East
1900 Anacostia Drive, SE
Washington, D.C. 20020
Museum Manager: Sharon Molineaux, (301) 763-4600

Greenbelt Museum
10-B Crescent Road
P.O. Box 1025
Greenbelt, MD 20768
Museum Manager: Lee B. Shields, (301) 474-1936
Hours: Sundays 1-5 p.m.
Facilities: historic hours, workroom.
Collections: 1937 Greenbelt period furniture, Harlequin ware, 1930s dolls, games, skates and toys, artwork, architectural drawings, household items, original plans and specifications of the building of the town of Greenbelt.

History Division, M-NCPPC
4302 Baltimore Ave.
Bladensburg, MD 20710
(301) 779-2011
TTY: (301) 779-5321

Howard B. Owens Science Center
9601 Greenbelt Road
Lanham-Seabrook, MD 20706
Supervisor: Winnie S. Wooley, (301) 577-8718
Hours: MF 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Facilities: garden, nature center, nature trail, planetarium, classroom, science laboratory, Challenger Learning Center (a simulated space environment).
Collections: science equipment, natural history materials, artifacts, aviation history prints.

Laurel Historical Society
Ninth and Main Streets
Box 774
Laurel, MD 20707
Vice President: Elizabeth L. Compton, (301) 776-6933
Hours: Call for schedule information.
Facilities: historic hours, park, nature center, nature trail, conservation laboratory, library, research laboratory, meeting room, temporary exhibit space, oral history tapes, archives, storage and workroom.
Collections: structures, personal artifacts, tools and equipment, local history books, photographs, artwork, costumes and textiles.

Marietta Mansion, M-NCPPC
5626 Bell Station Road
Glenn Dale, MD 20769
PGCHS Headquarters, 301-464-0590
Museum Manager: Susan Wolfe, (301) 464-5291
Hours: March-December, Sundays noon-4p.m.; and by appointment FDML open Saturdays noon-4:00 p.m.
Facilities: historic hours, library, meeting room, gift store, oral history tapes.
Collections: 19th to 20th-century paintings/etchings/photographs, family photograph portraits, Chinese Export Porcelain, early 19th- century to late 19th-century furniture. The library houses 2,000 19th to 20th-century books on Maryland state and county history, 19th to 20th-century framed portraits and a clothing/textile collection.

Montpelier Mansion, M-NCPPC
4302 Baltimore Avenue
Bladensburg, MD 20710
Museum Manager: (301) 953-1376

NASA/Goddard Visitor Center and Museum
Code 130
Greenbelt, MD 20771
General Manager: Kathy Pedelty, (301) 286-8981; TDD (301) 286-8103
Hours: Daily 10a.m.-4p.m. Closed Christmas, New Year's and Thanksgiving.
Facilities: auditorium, permanent and temporary exhibit space, gift store, teacher resource laboratory, oral history tapes, snack bar, picnic area.
Collections: space equipment, photographs

National Colonial Farm
Accokeek Foundation/Piscataway Park
3400 Bryan Point Road
Accokeek, MD 20607
Director of Operations: Stephen Colton, (301) 283-2113
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Facilities: colonial farm, American Chestnut program, Robert Ware Straus EcoSystem Farm, nature trail, wildlife pond, museum shop.
Collections: 18th-century tools and household furnishings, heirloom seeds, photographs and videotapes.

Prince George's County Hall of Fame
P.O. Box 1513
Upper Marlboro, MD 20773
Vice Chairman: Susan G. Pearl, (301) 952-3521
Hours: MF 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Facilities: Hall of Fame display at Prince George's County Courthouse.
Collections: portraits.

Surratt House Museum & Visitor Center, M-NCPPC
9118 Brandywine Road
Clinton, MD 20735
Historian: Laurie Verge, (301) 868-1121
Hours: March thru mid-December, 11a.m.-3 p.m.; Sat & Sun, noon to 4 p.m.
Facilities: Civil War-era house, herb garden, library, changing exhibits, gift store, archives, storage room.
Collections: structures, furnishings, family memorabilia (1800-1880), Victorian-era costumes (1850-1870), textiles, photographs relating to the conspiracy against Lincoln, his assassination and the flight of John Wilkes Booth, self-contained photographic display "Baltimore in the Civil War."

W.H. Duvall Tool Museum, M-NCPPC
Patuxent River Park
16000 Croom Airport Road
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772-8395
Park Naturalist: Jean Tierney, (301) 627-6074
Hours: Tuesday-Sat by reservation; Sundays 1-4 p.m.
Facilities: historic house, historic site
Collections: historic structures, tools and equipment, archival records, personal artifacts.

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