Vote for National Aquarium Best Aquarium A walk through the National Aquarium, located in a beautiful Baltimore waterfront park, takes guests on a journey around the world. Australian exhibits showcase crocodiles, fruit bats, snapping turtles and venomous snakes, while the tropical rain forest habitat houses sloths, tamarins, tarantulas and a variety of colorful birds. The aquarium is in the process of launching the nation’s first sanctuary for bottlenose dolphins. VOTE HERE
Help get Port Discovery Children’s Museum into top 10 and Vote for Best Museum for Families Families visiting the Port Discovery museum in Baltimore will find three floors interactive and educational exhibits designed for children ages birth through 10. The 80,000-square-foot facility opened in 1998 and features permanent exhibits like Adventure Expeditions, where kids travel back to Egypt circa 1920, and KidWorks, a three-story “urban treehouse” meant for climbing, crawling, jumping and sliding. Infants and toddlers have their own dedicated space, called Tot Trails. VOTE HERE
More Than Meets the Eye Researchers now know that the white-and-black splotches that give spotted eagle rays their common name form a pattern unique to each individual animal! This was determined using photo identification, which has also been used to show the individual qualities of humpback whales’ flukes and great white sharks’ dorsal fins. READ MORE Upcoming Events 22 FEBRUARY 22, 2017 • 6:30 PM – 9 PM Member Evening 25 MARCH 25, 2017 • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Project Clean Stream at Masonville Cove 1 APRIL 1, 2017 • 9 AM – 2
Another season of the Read to Reef book club with Enoch Pratt Free Library started March 1! Read to Reef Returns The Read to Reef program offers free admission to the Aquarium for participating Baltimore children up to fifth grade with a Pratt Library card. Children read five aquatic-themed books to gain free admission to the Aquarium for themselves and up to three guests! START READING LEARN+MORE Baby Cockatiels in Australia! Three cockatiel chicks have hatched in our Australia: Wild Extremes exhibit! Weighing just two grams at birth, the chicks are now close to 90
Healthy First Saturday Saturday, March 4 | 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Learn More Exercise your mind and body at Port Discovery’s Healthy First Saturday event! With spring right around the corner, it’s a great time to get kids active and playing in a healthy, fun way! Join us on Saturday, March 4th and take part in yoga for kids, learn about health and wellness with the UMBC Health Fair, and get Kinderfit! with the Kindersinger! Also learn about asthma with hands on activities from the Johns Hopkins University Asthma Study, visit with service
All Aboard! Join Port Discovery for our annual Play It Forward Gala! Ride the rails of adventure at our signature fundraiser featuring fabulous food and fun activities with all the bells and whistles. Honoring Dr. Jay Perman President, University of Maryland Baltimore with the Great Friend to Kids Award Thursday, April 6, 2017 | 6PM – 10PM 35 Market Place, Baltimore, MD 21202 Purchase Tickets Tickets: $95 per person | Purchase by March 21, 2017 $45 of each ticket purchased is tax-deductible as a charitable contribution. This is an event for Adults 21 & Over.
Harbor Park Garage is pleased to announce our official parking relationship with Soundstage. Located steps from the front door, Harbor Park Garage offers secure, safe, lighted parking. WEBSITE To prepay for your inner harbor parking, simply click on the Prepay For Parking buttons you see across the site or follow this link – https://goo.gl/mDibI9. Have fun at the event! Wednesday Mar 1, 2017 Power Trip Iron Reagan, Concealed Blade, Genocide Pact Doors: 7:30 PM Show: 8:30 PM All Ages TICKETS Thursday Mar 2, 2017 Wild Child Pressing Strings Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 8:00 PM All Ages
