Use your Pastport to travel through time and discover the real stories of the people who built and shaped Prince George’s County. At each museum you visit, explore exhibits, programs, and tours — all for FREE — and discover how the past connects to your present.
From the marvelous natural wood patterns to the mastery of different finishes, the Chesapeake Woodturner’s artists will have you asking, “how do they do that?”
Ticket Price: Free, donations are welcome.
Welcome spring and delight in the sights and sounds of nature, art, and history at this fun festival for the entire family, hosted by Montpelier Arts Center and Montpelier House Museum! Explore the vendor Marketplace, relax to...
Join our educators at this hands-on activity table where creativity takes flight! Perfect for budding engineers and aviation enthusiasts, this interactive program allows visitors to design and build their own creations. Whether you’re constructing airplanes, airports, or inventing something entirely new, Saturday STEAM Hour encourages you to...
Ticket Price: Free
Join our educators at this hands-on activity table where creativity takes flight! Perfect for budding engineers and aviation enthusiasts, this interactive program allows visitors to design and build their own creations. Whether you’re constructing airplanes, airports, or inventing something entirely new, Saturday STEAM Hour encourages you to...
Ticket Price: Free
Join the Riversdale Kitchen Guild over the open hearth as they prepare a spring brunch using 19th-century cooking techniques.
Ticket Price: Free
Explore the College Park Airport up close! Enjoy a tour of the airport’s tarmac while learning about the many “firsts” that happened on the airfield and how the airport is used today. This tour lasts about one-hour, takes place outdoors, and requires visitors to traverse paved asphalt, grass, and slightly uneven gravel.
Ticket Price: $10 for residents, $13 for non-residents
Dinosaur Park Open Houses are a free public program on the first and third Saturday of every month and the second Sunday in the summer. Join us and learn more about fossils, including the dinosaurs who used to call Maryland home.
Ticket Price: Free. No reservations required.
Take an engaging tour of the 1926 B&O Caboose exhibit and imagine riding the rails while listening to stories about railroad and train history.
Ticket Price: $4 Resident, $6 Non-resident
Join University of Maryland College Park Professor Dr. Richard Bell for an illuminating presentation of his new book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World.
Ticket Price: $10/adult, $5/Seniors, $5 children/students with ID. Non-Resident: $13/adult, $7 child/student with ID.
Explore what herbs were grown in colonial Maryland and how they were used in recipes, household products, and as medicine.
Ticket Price: $15 per person
Join us for a powerful day dedicated to honoring and preserving the voices, struggles, and triumphs of minority communities.
Ticket Price: Free
Celebrate mom with an afternoon filled with history. Learn about the history of the mothers and mother figures who lived and worked at this former plantation.
Ticket Price: $ Mothers receive free admission. Adults: $5; Seniors: $4; Students: $2; Children 4 and under: Free
Join the Riversdale Kitchen Guild over the open hearth as they highlight 19th-century favorite recipes of mothers.
Ticket Price: Free
Dinosaur Park Open Houses are a free public program on the first and third Saturday of every month and the second Sunday in the summer. Join us and learn more about fossils, including the dinosaurs who used to call Maryland home.
Ticket Price: Free. No reservations required.
Learning about architecture and history, active engagement, walking, and staying fit.
Ticket Price: $$10 Residents & Members of Montpelier House Museum, $20 Non-resident
Join us for a bilingual (Spanish and English) reading of "Avioncito" by May Clerici. After the story, little learners can fold their own paper planes and test them out on our paper plane launcher!
Ticket Price: Free
Dinosaur Park Open Houses are a free public program on the first and third Saturday of every month and the second Sunday in the summer. Join us and learn more about fossils, including the dinosaurs who used to call Maryland home.
Ticket Price: Free. No reservations required.
Please join Annmarie Buckley for a hands-on presentation to learn about herbs for food and medicine, and how women, free and enslaved, used herbs and tea.
Ticket Price: $5/county resident & $7/non-county. Free for children under 12 years old.
Falling can help us learn to soar! Join us for a special reading of "After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again)," by Dan Santat, the inspiring story of Humpty Dumpty’s journey to overcome his fears. After the story, little learners can fold their own...
Ticket Price: Free
Join our educators at this hands-on activity table where creativity takes flight! Perfect for budding engineers and aviation enthusiasts, this interactive program allows visitors to design and build their own creations. Whether you’re constructing airplanes, airports, or inventing something entirely new, Saturday STEAM Hour encourages you to...
Ticket Price: Free
Experience the thrill of being a combat pilot and walk in the footsteps of those who flew from 1909 to 1970. This tour is led by a military historian clad in authentic, Vietnam War-era flight gear.
Ticket Price: $10/adult, $5 children/students with ID Non-Resident: $13/adult, $7 child/student with ID
Health and wellness, fostering community engagement, building trust, and learning diverse perspectives and inclusive history.
Ticket Price: $$5 Residents; $7 Non-Residents; Free for Members of Montpelier House Museum
Join us for a Memorial Day tour as we interpret the history of the people who lived and worked at this former plantation.
Ticket Price: $ Free for Veterans; Adults: $5; Seniors: $4; Students: $2; Children 4 and under: Free
