Times may be a-changing, but one Baltimore group sees continuing value in collecting, preserving and interpreting the area?s industrial and technological past.

“We exist to interpret the industrial history of Baltimore and the larger Maryland community,” said Roland Woodward, executive director of downtown?s Baltimore Museum of Industry, “particularly 19th- and early 20th-century industries ? many of which are no longer here ? that were largely responsible for the region?s dramatic growth.”