It houses a exhibition on Baltimore's cultural and architectural history, and changing exhibits from the museum's collection. The Pier Six Concert Pavilion on Pier Six, just east of the National Aquarium on the Inner Harbor, hosts outdoor concerts from May to September. When you cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from Annapolis to Maryland's Eastern Shore , you enter another world where historic towns and fishing villages carry on a slow paced life dating back to America's Colonial era. The Chesapeake Bay is Maryland's major natural resource. Please see Tom Horman's article for information on some of the fine restaurants in Baltimore.
Train rides are available on weekends.
Harborplace with The Gallery across Pratt Street contain almost 200 specialty shop and sixty restaurants. Part of the City Life Museum complex, the 234 foot high Shot Tower was built in 1829 for the manufacture of lead shot ammunition. Molten lead formed into nearly perfect spheres when poured from the top of the tower. All trains travel to Washington's Union Station. Most stations are open until midnight, Monday through Saturday.