Geppi’s Entertainment Museum

This museum located right in camden yards is completely awesome if you are a comic book lover It literally covers the entire history of comic books and doesnt cost much. Great place for a date or family day out

Every time a family member or friend comes to visit me, I always take them to Geppi’s. Who doesn’t love a walk down memory lane in nostalgia?! A museum full of fun culture and «throwbacks»! Each door has a time period of years for all the items found inside.
I really enjoyed taking my dad to this place a couple of years ago. Of course I went through the doors from his days. He’s a 1950’s baby boomer generation. I started there then worked my way up to 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. It was fun and cool to hear his childhood stories and different life experiences for each time period. I learned something about my own family history. My 80’s and 90’s childhood items are in this museum too.
Another point to consider is that the further you go back in time, the more you will see how much society and American culture has changed from racist to way better representation in film and art. You will see «Tar-​Baby», a movie poster for Birth of a Nation and villain depictions of African Americans in posters and other items that stirred up racism for centuries.
For the comic book nerds, there is a room filled with comics every whereeeee. I really like the gift shop also. Also there’s an upstairs that has a small section. I really like the downstairs though.

Took a lady friend here on our first date and she enjoyed it as much as I did. Great collection of classic comics and other nerd memorabilia throughout the decades.

This place is an absolute gem! The price for admission is low, the enjoyment value is sky high. Employees are very helpful and knowledgeable which makes the experience even better. The gift shop was soo cool– lots of neat things for all ages. Going through the rooms and talking about the old days, seeing the toys we played with as kids brought back so many great memories. I firmly believe more than one visit is necessary– you can’t see everything in one trip. Can’t wait to go back.

Really cool museum! Strolling though brought up good conversation about the toys of our youth. They have an impressive comic book collection. I think it’d be neat to have the estimated value of each book as part of the display. Even though this is a museum of comics and toys I wouldn’t bring small children. They can’t interact and I don’t think they’d appreciate. I’d recommend for children over the age of 9.

This place is interested. The frond desk employees was so friendly and welcoming. I was so excited for the fist time visit to the museum. I tried to guess the riddle at the frond dest before paying a ticket $ 10 each to eater the museum .
Grap a map before you head inside, the suggested walking plan is pretty helpful especially if you want a chronological look at the evolution of entrainment
There have 8 rooms, if you are the first time in there, they will show you which one you should explore first.

Went here on Valentines day and found it because of a groupon and it was a pretty good find! Lots of memorabilia, and it is pretty well organized by time period. Brought back lots of memories, and I could see older people loving this place as well! The gift shop is really fun to browse through also! They have comic books, figurines, and lots of other fun trinkets.
Great weekend activity!

Geppi’s Entertainment Museum is a must see for anyone who is a comic book fan, pop culture fan or wants a trip down nostalgia lane. On the second floor of a building, one walks up a flight of stairs that have paintings and posters of comic book characters and toys from a different era.
My wife and entered and was met by a very nice girl wearing a Nostromo outfit (from the movie «Alien») who took out admission fee and explained the museum and how to visit the rooms. The first was a room filled with a large collection of comic books and a selection of Big Little Books. Other rooms included various toys and collectibles from different eras. One room had a collection devoted to Baltimore and Steve Geppi (the man whose collection gave birth to this museum).
There is also a museum store that sold comics and collectibles. There we met the same girl that greeted us at the beginning. She also told us that she had a facehugger to go with her outfit but we didn’t see it. Since it was Halloween, she showed us comics that were available for free for Halloween ComicFest. That was a nice surprise.
If you ever visit Baltimore, I suggest you visit this place. It is near the Orioles baseball stadium.

It’s important for Baltimore to have a museum as expansive as this one preserving it literary legacy and one of American’s original art forms. it’s a great time for yourself and the the entire family and the staff is very friendly helpful and nerdy

Definately a cool place to geek out! I got to DJ The UnilocalCon party here and enjoyed the atmosphere of having comics/​memorabilia all around. Each of the exhibit rooms have different themed style genre. Staff were friendly and overall enjoyed walking through the exhibits.

This place is amazing. From the moment you step inside the sports museum (which is the first floor, below Geppi’s), you’re faced with a decked out elevator decorated with pop culture icons and comic book heroes. The boyfriend and I stayed in the elevator for a good couple of minutes geeking out and taking pictures of the inside.
In the main lobby, the front desk employee was so friendly and welcoming, excited for our first visit to the museum. We tried (and failed) to guess the riddle at the front desk before paying a cheap entrance fee of $ 10 each to enter the museum. Grab a map before you head inside; the suggested walking plan is pretty helpful, especially if you want a chronological look at the evolution of entertainment.
There are about 8 different rooms to visit and there’s so much to look at. There are figurines, comic strips, interesting trivia, and statues all over the museum. You’ll find the most nostalgic pieces of entertainment history on these walls. Each room also shows you how current events influenced the trends in pop culture. One room focuses on the ‘heroes’ of Baltimore, with blurbs about our doctors, athletes, actors, etc. I love how Baltimore pride managed to wiggle itself into the museum!
There’s also a «Special edition» room with a specific focus on different topics. When I went, they had an exhibit on Black characters in comic books.
The last stop to make before you leave is the gift shop/​comic book shop. The boyfriend and I bought a couple magnets and comic books before we left and we had a great conversation with the very knowledgeable shop workers about cool comics we’ve read or need to read. You don’t need to pay a museum fee if you’re coming just for the comic book store, just FYI!
This museum is definitely a hidden gem in Baltimore and a must-​see for comic book nerds.

Geppi’s Entertainment Museum is a pretty cool collection of comic books and related pop culture related artifacts and things (toys, posters, lunch boxes, puppets and so on and so forth). The comic book collection is pretty massive and impressive. There are tons of posters too. Basically, the place is full of a lot of cool stuff. I don’t think I’m a big enough comic book fan (or nerd, if you will) to fully appreciate everything they had but it is cool to look through. If you are a causal comic book reader you’d probably think the place is pretty cool. If you were a big comic book fan, this would be a must visit type of place. If you are just an average joe, you won’t have your mind blown but I think you will still find it all interesting and be hit with a bit of nostalgia when you hit the portion of the display that relates to your childhood.
Comic book or pop culture nerd? This is a must see for you.
Everyone else, worth a detour if you have the time.

Hosted a social event for our conference at Geppi’s. The space is perfect for cocktail-​style and the various pop culture-​themed rooms offer plenty to talk about. We hired a DJ and had enough space for a «dance floor». It’s definitely a nice gem of Baltimore everyone should explore at least once!

First off, Geppi’s museum is on the 2^nd floor of the baseball museum, the tickets are sold upstairs, and the parking lot they recommend, Google navigation doesn’t know how to get to.
Next, it’s not really an «Entertainment Museum» it’s a cross between a comic book museum, a pop culture museum, and a ‘look at me I’m awesome and so is Baltimore museum’.
There are several rooms that are big on comic book history, displaying a number of comics that I assume are important for some reason, but you’re never really told why. Each room has a number of plaques describing things in the room (e.g. «The Golden Age of Comics») but they’re at a generic level, describing overarching themes. You’re then presented with a wall of several hundred comics, which you don’t know anything about that you can’t learn from the cover. Why are these comics the ones you chose to display to illustrate this concept? Are they extra important? Did they introduce key characters? You won’t learn anything about the specific comics on display, it’s just not presented in any way shape or form. The generic plaques provide you interesting information on the history of comics, when you can find them (it looks like they were purposefully designed to be the same color as the wall).
There are some rooms dedicated to general pop culture stuff, of which I have the same beef. Why is th. is specific item in the display? What’s important about it? That looks like a sherriff’s badge from a TV show, but from what show? The museum provides you no context for the individual items on display.
Then there is also the Geppi/​Baltimore room, which just seems out of context. It reads as an advertisement for Baltimore (I’m already here Mr. Geppi), and Baltimore Magazine, which doesn’t exactly overlap with the demographic which is present at the museum. It does have some interesting facts about Baltimore, but it doesn’t really flow with the rest of the museum.
Overall, I learned a fair bit about comics, but I feel like I could have learned everything I did in a more interesting manner by watching the movie they were playing in the video room (but it was 3 hours long and I was hungry by the time I got there). I felt like the comics on display were just a storage mechanism, they didn’t teach us anything additional.

Really cool place. Came here for a work related social event where they had a DJ and catered food. Loved their collection of comic books and cartoons that go way back. Only got to explore their 2^nd floor unfortunately, but I would definitely want to go back!

When I went to Baltimore for a convention I would have never thought I would find a gem of museum like Geppi’s. The museum is housed in an old train station with wooden floors and rooms filled with pop culture past and present. Each room in the museum is separated by different decades. They have everything including copies of the first comic books. If you want the ultimate classic comic book, classic toy to the most current cartoon figures, you’ve got to plan a visit! I would visit Geppi’s again and bring as many people as possible to enjoy this beautiful museum along with me.

If you know a comic book fan, this is a fun place to explore. I’d also recommend it for tweens/​teens. It was a bit too much reading for my 5 and 8 year old. The staff was kind and enthusiastic, and we did get to show our kids all sorts of pop culture icons from our own childhoods. It was a good outing, but not one I want to repeat.

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I thought it was an exhibit of comics but it was waaaaaay more than I expected!
It’s an exhibit of pop culture from yesteryears till the present. This museum is on the second floor of the sports museum. The admission is $ 10 and you’ll be provided a map that will start you off in the room that is filled with comics, which after you can stroll through the different rooms.
Being that I grew up in the 80’s, I got a kick out of seeing my favorite characters and some of the games and albums I grew up with.
The best is the superman displays on opposite ends of the hall. The building itself is beautiful and whoever arranged this pop culture museum did a very outstanding job. I love the signs that you can view before entering the room because it lists the inventions and other fun facts of that era.
If you are visiting Baltimore or if you are a local and never checked it out-​please check it out… it brings you down memory lane and realizing how quickly technology has changed our world.

Very, very cool look through American pop culture through the eyes of cartoonists, satirists, and graphic artists.
The chronological and genre-​driven layout makes the presentation easily digestible. The space is large and welcoming, with the high ceilings and available vertical areas well used with lithographs, posters, and classic memorabilia.
You don’t have to be a fanboy to enjoy this spot. In fact, it provides an opportunity for those of us who are unrepentant geeks to show off why we are fans of this subculture. The wide range of sub-​genres represented, and the variety of media types and characters considered are a testament to curatorial love and care. This is a spot to show off why geek culture is smart, talented, and just damn fun.

This place is a must for any comic or toy geek. Located right by Camden Yards, this second story museum is packed with old comics, toys, posters, and plenty of other pop culture treasures.
I was here for a wedding reception (just like Sarah… hi Sarah!) and I have to agree that the space is awkward for a large party. The rooms are filled with large displays and the hallways are long and narrow, which made it a little tough to navigate through the crowds. For small parties, I think this museum makes for a unique and fun event space.
As for their exhibits, it doesn’t get much better than this if you’re into comics. You can gawk at the issues featuring the first appearance of Superman, Bat Man, Spider-​Man, etc. and plenty of other landmark issues in comic book history like the «end» of the Phoenix saga in X-​Men #137 or John Byrne’s reboot of Superman in the «Man of Steel» mini-​series.
Their collection of toys, while not a comprehensive collection of any one genre, is a good mix of old and fairly new items — everything from Howdy Doody to Barbie to Star Wars and Transformers. They even have some old McDonald’s Happy meal toys and packaging on display. It’s really an impressive collection that shows the history and evolution of toys through the years.
From what I could tell, there’s one room that features temporary exhibits, but everything else is permanent.
One thing they could do to make the museum better (if they had the space) would be to have some sort of signage for most of the comics indicating why that issue is significant (e.g. the first appearance of a character, a death of a major character, a major change in the storyline, etc.). It would be a good way to educate people as to why that issue is worthy of being displayed.