Begin your visit to Historic St. Mary’s City at our Visitor Center.

The Visitor Center is a complex of blue barns where one can buy tickets, grab a visitor guide/map, learn a little history, and find out what activities are happening at the museum. A ten-minute introductory video provides background on the significance of Maryland’s first capital as well as all there is to see and do at our museum. Once you purchase your tickets you can either go directly out onto the historic landscape or you can choose to begin inside and tour the “Once the Metropolis” exhibit housed in the Visitor Center structure. At this exhibit you can learn about some of Maryland’s first colonists as well as get a quick and easy
overview of how St. Mary’s City came to be.