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waterfront. They’re all interconnected
through this channel.
“It’s interesting when you look
at everything,” Marzolf said about
Baltimore’s workers and industries
represented at BMI. “I don’t see
just one industry on its own. I see
several that are connected, almost
like a spider web, and they all come
together around one thing — and
that’s the water.”
BALTIMORE MUSEUM
OF INDUSTRY
AT A GLANCE
Year Founded: 1977
Leadership:
Anita Kassof, Executive Director;
Beth Maloney, Director of
Curatorial Affairs;
Curtis Durham, Collections &
Exhibitions Manager;
Maggi Marzolf, Archives Manager;
Address: 1415 Key Highway,
Baltimore, MD 21230
www.thebmi.org
Helen Delich Bentley
(courtesy of BMI Archives)
multi-year initiative, inspired by the
impact of the Key Bridge collapse
and what that means,” she said. “But
then, really continuing to keep the Port
and the kinds of jobs it supports in the
public consciousness.
“Ultimately, we’d also like to create
a school curriculum for our field trips
that come to the museum to expose
more students to the story of the Port
and familiarize them with the kinds of
d
jobs that Port businesses provide and
d
the skills they would need to succeed
in them.”
Honoring the
Port’s ‘Godmother’
BMI plans to devote more space to
the dockyard, but it already has a
strong direct connection to what was
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renamed the Helen Delich Bentley
Port of Baltimore in June 2006.
A longtime journalist and
advocate for Maryland’s maritime
industry before she entered public
service, Bentley joined BMI’s Board
of Trustees in 2003 and remained one
of its most active members until her
death in 2016. No one is associated
with the Port more than Bentley,
whose impact is well represented at
BMI with more than 600 reels from
her 1950s-1960s TV program, “The
Port That Built a City.”
“We recently had that collection
digitized,” BMI Archives Manager
Maggi Marzolf said. “There are early
videos of the Harbor Tunnel right
when it opened, and you can see the
surrounding area.”
Marzolf said BMI recently acquired
Bentley’s Congressional papers and
other items as well. She looks forward
to a Port exhibit in the future, but said
a small collection and the view from
BMI’s Decker Gallery already make
the link clear.
“You can see it right out the
windows as you look onto the harbor,”
Marzolf said. “You can see how
everything is interconnected. We have
Domino Sugar unloading off its ships,
and we see all the docking areas and
Workshop Services & Specialty Products
industries along the waterfront. And
Ship & Industrial Equipment Repair
the ones that used to be along the
★ Hull ★ Piping Systems ★ Cargo Gear ★ Ramps ★ Welding ★ Machining ★
★ Cranes & Rigging ★ Main Propulsion & Auxiliary Machinery ★ Underwater Services ★