The Coolest Art Museum

I took the kids to the American Visionary Art Museum in downtown Baltimore.  It was free as part of the Blue Star Initiative and was the most unique art museum I have ever seen.  It defines visionary as the following: (taken from their web page)

• Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself." In short, visionary art begins by listening to the inner voices of the soul, and often may not even be thought of as 'art' by its creator. 

They don't allow pictures in the museum, but these are the cool ones outside.

 The museum is immediately adjacent to Federal hill park with a playground on top and a great view of the entire Inner Harbor.  We had a lot of fun rolling and climbing down the hill.

  It also has the coolest gift shop around. With items like the ones we bought. It also had a great book section but I can't look at books with 4 kids playing around me. For now we just got cool toys and I will definitely go back.

PS.  If you ever go make sure you check out the Fart Machine on the lower level between the bathrooms.  It was my son's favorite part.