Port Discovery Overnight

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Join us for a scout overnight at an awesome children's museum!
  • When: Saturday, January 28, 2023, 5:30 - 10:30 pm/Overnight
  • Where: Port Discovery Children's Museum (website)
    35 Market Pl, Baltimore, MD 21202 (map)
  • Cost: $60 per person (scout or chaperone) + $3 for paypal fee- all youth MUST have a chaperone, NO Dropoffs. Scholarships are available.  
  • Signup/Payment Deadline: January 20th, 2023
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Contact: Bonnie Calabria - bonniewithxoxo@gmail.com and Rabia Chaudhry Helu - rabiahelu@gmail.com

Key Documents
Required Waivers/Releases ​General Info
Plan to arrive between 5:45-6:00pm to park and check-in. Port Discovery staff will provide an orientation and the rules and have special activities in addition to access to the entire interactive museum. Please review the program with chaperone expectations, an anticipated agenda, and gear to bring. If you choose not to stay overnight, please leave before lights out at 10:30pm. Pack 275 will be including a dinner at the beginning of the program. Port Discovery will provide an evening snack and breakfast for each person. You may bring additional non-perishable snacks. 

This is not a private event; another pack will be having an overnight at the same time. Please have your scouts wear their Pack 275 shirts and stay with the group for dinner and orientation.
Review the Guest Code of Content Guest Guidelines & Code of Conduct | Port Discovery Children's Museum

Other Info
All attendees will be required to complete the Port Discovery release form and Scout forms (BSA informed consent and medical release forms) linked above (we will have copies on site if you forget to do this).

Parking at Harbor Park Garage will be discounted for all guests attending.  Discounted parking tickets can be picked up at the Port Discovery Guest Services Station.  In order to receive the discount you must park at Harbor Park Garage.

To Come to this great event
Step 1:  RSVP Here ...
Then ...
Step 2: Pay attendance fee
It's $63 per person (incl. 3% handling)
  • Pay via cash, check (to BSA Pack 275) or online below (Choose 'Add to Cart' then update number of  people in the cart.)​

​Scholarships are available. Contact  our cubmaster@pack-275.com) or treasurer@pack-275.com for details.
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​Below is an overview of some planned activities, info, rules and more.  Download and review the Info Packet linked in Key Documents above for more details.

Approximate Schedule:
  • 5:45pm: Check-in, Orientation/Welcome/Dinner
  • 6:30pm - 10:30pm: Evening Activities
    • Open Exploration of exhibits​
  • 10:30pm: Lights Out/Closing and Departure

Activities:
  • Take part in exclusive interactive experiences throughout Port Discovery Children’s Museum
  • Adventure through our bigger, bolder, better – and even more fun exhibits, including a giant four-story SkyClimber and a multi-level, interactive Port Exhibit.
  • Explore the inner-workings of ships and the Port of Baltimore, develop problem-solving skills and confidence while climbing to new heights, adventure through Ancient Egypt, experiment with water, make believe in a pretend diner, get creative in an art studio and theater space, and much more!
  • Enjoy evening pizza party as well as discounted parking at the Harbor Park Garage

Directions: (map)
  • Take 95 North all the way to Baltimore, do not use 395 in the DC area.
  • Take 95 to 395-Baltimore (Downtown/Inner Harbor) past Camden Yards Stadium (on your left) to Pratt Street. Make a right onto Pratt Street. Follow Pratt Street past the National Aquarium to Market Place. Make a left on Market Place. Cross over Lombard Street, Harbor Park garage will be immediately on your right.

Parking:
Discounted parking is available in the Harbor Park Garage located next to Port Discovery (map to garage). This garage offers a special discounted rate for Port Discovery  participants (you must enter after 5:00 pm and leave before 10:00 am in order to get this rate). Please bring your garage ticket to the museum, where a staff member will provide you with a coupon to use when you leave the next morning. You do not pay at Port Discovery. The clearance in the Harbor Park garage is 6’ 6”. Large conversion vans will not fit in this garage.

Rules:
  1. Masks are required - all attendees MUST agree to wear masks at all times other than when eating in the Pier cafeteria area.
  2. Practice safe distancing and be mindful of other guest waiting to explore the exhibits.
  3. Use hand sanitizer when you enter the Museum and between leaving/entering new exhibits.
  4. If someone in your group cannot attend the program, you may substitute another member from your organization. Registration fees may also be transferred to another group/troop in your organization. Adults may be substituted for children, and vice-versa.
  5. Parents/Chaperones/Children are not permitted to leave the building after the program begins.
  6. Campers are to be chaperoned at all times.
  7. No food or drink is permitted inside the exhibit areas. Food and drink must be consumed in designated areas only. Port Discovery will provide an evening meal. You may bring additional non-perishable snacks. Please call ahead if concerned with food allergies.
  8. Port Discovery is a smoke-free facility.
  9. No alcohol or drugs are allowed at any time when visiting the museum. Smoking is not permitted outside after 7:00 pm.
  10. Port Discovery reserves the right to ask any individual or group not adhering to these polices to leave without a refund.
  11. Shoes must be worn at all times, except The Sky Climber which requires socks.

For emergencies, or if you get lost are are running late:
An emergency phone number to use is: 410.864.2700. This will connect directly to the Security Office.