Tours

Important things to know about tours:

Dates, times, and accessibility notes will be posted soon. AGM registrants in the Attendee and Companion categories may purchase tours as part of AGM registration. If space remains, tours may be opened to Attendees’ non-registered traveling partners in late summer.

Tours must meet minimum headcounts in order to run. If a tour is canceled due to low enrollment, you will be given a full refund.

We are offering a variety of tours, but every tour may not be suitable for every person. Please read descriptions and accessibility notes carefully.

Shuttles for Self-Guided Tours, on JASNA-Chartered Buses

All Day Thursday

Includes: Shuttle bus wristband only. Entrance fees to destinations at the stops are not included in the shuttle fee.

Buses will run on two loops from the hotel. Registered participants will be issued a wristband that will allow them to hop on and off the buses on either route at any of the stops. The “Sense” route will stop at Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Park, the Sagamore Pendry Hotel, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Flag House, Mount Vernon Place (Washington Monument, Walters Art Museum, and the Maryland Center for History and Culture), and the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The “Sensibility” route will stop at the American Visionary Art Museum, Fort McHenry, and the National Aquarium.

Black History Guided Bus Tour

1/2-Day Thursday and Sunday

Includes: Bus transportation, professional guide

This bus-only tour features Baltimore’s rich Black history, including the Orchard Street Church, the Eubie Blake National Museum and Cultural Center, Billie Holiday Park, and sites important to Thurgood Marshall and Frederick Douglass. Note that the guide will speak and participants will view sites from the bus, with no admission to the sites.






Goucher College’s Jane Austen Collection

1/2-Day Monday

Includes: Bus transportation, snacks, access to Goucher exhibit
Afternoon tour also includes play.

Goucher College is the home of JASNA’s archives and has many rare, first, and translated editions of Austen’s novels. Visitors will be able to view selections from the rich collection, as well as the scrapbooks of Alberta Burke, whose bequest founded the college’s Austen collection. Burke collected a wide variety of Austen books and ephemera in both England and the United States. Her husband, Henry, was one of the founding members of JASNA.

Homewood Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art 1, With Lunch

3/4-day Thursday

Includes: Bus transportation, museum admissions, lunch

The Homewood Museum, built as a home in 1801, is an outstanding example of Federal-style Palladian architecture. The tour features 11 rooms and intertwines the histories of both its past owners and the enslaved people on the estate. The Baltimore Museum of Art’s comprehensive collection contains 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century American art, the largest collection of Matisse works in a public institution, and objects from ancient Egypt, Oceania, the ancient Americas, and Europe. The Thursday tour includes lunch at Gertrude’s Chesapeake Kitchen.

Homewood Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art 2

1/2-day Sunday

Includes: Bus transportation, museum admissions

The Homewood Museum, built as a home in 1801, is an outstanding example of Federal-style Palladian architecture. The tour features 11 rooms and intertwines the histories of both its past owners and the enslaved people on the estate. The Baltimore Museum of Art’s comprehensive collection contains 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century American art, the largest collection of Matisse works in a public institution, and objects from ancient Egypt, Oceania, the ancient Americas, and Europe.

Ladew Topiary Gardens

1/2-day Sunday

Includes: Bus transportation, admission, afternoon snack

Across 22 acres of gardens, Ladew has more than 100 topiaries as well as “rooms” that feature a wide variety of plants and flowers. The 18th-century Manor House showcases hunting enthusiast Henry Ladew’s extensive collection of equestrian art and English antiques—and more items shaped like foxes than you can imagine.

Nevermore Poe Guided Tour

1/2-day Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday, and Monday

Includes: Bus transportation, museum admission

This bus tour focuses on the life and legacy of Edgar Allan Poe. Stops at the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum and the Westminster Burying Ground, site of his tomb, will be featured.








Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library Tour

Full day Wednesday and Thursday

Includes: Bus transportation, museum admission, lunch

The Winterthur Museum collection contains more than 90,000 works of art, pieces of furniture, and objects collected by Henry Francis du Pont. The 60-acre naturalistic garden, which can be explored on foot or by tram, focuses on color and design. The library contains rare books, ephemera, and photographs, including the 1816 Philadelphia edition of Emma. A box lunch will be included in the tour.

Walking Tours in Fells Point

Fells Point, located about ½ mile from the hotel, is an historic waterfront neighborhood featuring cobblestone streets, historic architecture, and a multitude of restaurants and bars.


Fells Point Pub Crawl

Evening Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Includes: Professional guide, tastings

This walking tour will fill participants with the area’s history and tastings at three drinking establishments. The tour will start and end at the hotel.

Ghost Tour

Evening Thursday and Friday

Includes: Professional guide

This walking tour, which will start and end at the hotel, will take participants through the ghostly past—and present—of Fells Point.