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Johns Hopkins Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Friday 9:00 am
Recommended for G & J Division

Facilities for mineralogy and crystallography include two transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) and modern specimen preparation laboratories. The transmission electron microscopy laboratory houses instruments capable of both high-resolution imaging at the atomic cluster scale and X-ray microanalysis of areas a few tens of nanometers in diameter. Campus facilities include instruments for single-crystal, X-ray diffraction and focused ion-beam milling (FIB) for site-specific, TEM sample preparation at the nanometer scale.

In 1800, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, offered his son a generous wedding gift — $10,000 to build and furnish a place in the country. Charles Carroll Jr. spared no expense and overlooked no detail in the construction of Homewood, an expression of his family's tremendous political, social and financial stature. Located on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, Homewood is one of the finest examples of the neoclassical architecture of the period. It is renowned for its elegant proportions, fine workmanship and extravagant details, including intricately carved woodwork, stylish faux finishes, and ornate plaster ceiling ornaments. Homewood’s welcoming interior spaces and brightly colored rooms are filled with objects contemporary to or associated with the Carroll family, including superb examples of Baltimore furniture.

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The Baltimore Museum of Art is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 90,000 works of art—including the largest holding of works by Henri Matisse in the world. Throughout the Museum, visitors will find an outstanding selection of European and American fine and decorative arts, 15th through 19th-century prints and drawings, contemporary art by established and emerging artists, and objects from Africa, Asia, the Ancient Americas and the Pacific Islands. Two beautifully landscaped gardens display an array of 20th-century sculpture that is an oasis in the city.

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is internationally renowned for its collection of art, which was amassed substantially by two men, William and Henry Walters, and eventually bequeathed to the City of Baltimore. The collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Deco jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces. Beyond the specific holdings – especially in Italian painting, one of the more significant in the Americas – this collection owes its renown to installations that re-create the domestic settings in which such art was initially displayed. These feature a knight’s hall in France around 1500, the galleries of Italian Renaissance and Baroque palaces, intimate spaces of a wealthy Dutch merchant’s home around 1700, and three rooms of a Flemish nobleman’s residence in the 1600s – a hall of arms and armor, a private study with Renaissance bronzes, jewels and intriguing antiquities, all leading to a chamber of wonders. This room, with its hundreds of natural history wonders displayed with marvels of human ingenuity from all corners of the world, offers an unparalleled opportunity to experience the excitement of the Age of Exploration in Europe. As an authentic re-creation of a chamber of wonders, this installation is unique in the Americas.

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Home of the Star Spangled Banner, the Maryland Historical Society is the state's oldest cultural institution. It houses the most extensive collection of objects and artifacts in the state of Maryland, and one of the largest collections of Americana in the world. The Maryland Historical Society's Museum Division houses an incredible collection of treasures. From 18th and 19th-century paintings and silver to 20th-century objects of everyday life, the museum collection celebrates Maryland's rich and diverse history.

The Museum collection is international in scope and covers a wide variety of clocks, watches, tools, and other time-related items. The main focus of the collection is on nineteenth-century American clocks and watches. However, additional collections include early English Tallcase clocks, Asian timepieces from Japan and China, and timekeeping devices from Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Russia. Chronologically, the exhibits take you on a tour through the entire history of timekeeping technology from early non-mechanical devices to today's atomic and radio controlled clocks. The museum is recognized as the largest and most comprehensive horological collection in North America.

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The Quilt & Textile Museum's permanent collection showcases quilts produced by Amish women in Lancaster County between the 1870s and the 1940s. The former Esprit Collection, what many scholars consider to be the finest collection of authentic late 19th-20th century Amish Quilts indigenous to this region, will be accompanied by other Amish artifacts. The result is one of the largest collections of its kind anywhere to be presented in context with the stories of south-central Pennsylvanians. The variety and intensity of the collection will leave an indelible imprint on those who view it. You will learn about the history of the Amish, defining characteristics of Lancaster County Amish quilts, and the process of making a quilt. The museum is housed in a grand Beaux Arts building, originally owned by the Lancaster Trust Company, a once prosperous community bank that failed during the Great Depression. Constructed in 1912, this building has stood empty for much of its life.

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• William Paca House and Gardens

Home to a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a governor of Maryland, this estate was built between 1763 and 1765 and restored by Historic Annapolis. The five-part structure is composed of a central block, flanked symmetrically with hyphens and wings. The house tour offers a glimpse of life during Annapolis’s “Golden Age.” Enjoy wine and cheese as you take a stroll through the garden.

•Hammond-Harwood House, 1774

The Hammond-Harwood house was owned and inhabited by generations of old Annapolis families who kept the interior in near-original condition. Its superb collections of decorative arts-furniture, paintings, and artifacts from the late 18th and early 19th century, gathered from American and some European sources during the past 60 years, are showcased in the period rooms. The first floor room displays reflect the early Georgian period and the second floor tells the stories of the Annapolis families who occupied the house in the post-Revolutionary period.

Maryland's first museum house and one of the oldest and finest examples of colonial Georgian architecture in the city, Mount Clare is a 1760 colonial Georgian home built by one of Maryland’s leading patriots and first state senators, Charles Carroll, Barrister. The museum has one of the finest privately owned decorative arts collections in the country, most of which belonged to the Carroll family. It is renowned amongst scholars and collectors alike. The collection consists of English and Chinese export objects as well as many regional objects and furnishings from Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. On exhibit are 16 family portraits by notable artists such as Charles Willson Peale and Robert Edge Pine.

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