Dollar (or less) Days at Baltimore attractions

This past weekend--December 9 and 10, 2017--I visited most of the attractions during the 

National Great Blacks in Wax Museum--
I think Mary McLeod Bethune looked the most life-like.

Dollar Days :

Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum
Geppi's Entertainment Museum
Jewish Museum of Maryland
Maryland Science Center
National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Star-Spangled Banner Flag House
Top of the World (27th floor of pentagon-shaped building at the inner harbor with good views of the area)

Star-Spangled Banner Flag House--The dog is a nut cracker operated by raising and lowering the tail with
the nut in the mouth. I forget what the box on the right is for, maybe soap.

I didn't have time to get to the Historic Ships in Baltimore (which I've seen before), National Aquarium, and Port Discovery Children’s Museum. The Aquarium had long lines. When I walked by on Sunday around 11 am, the line extended almost to the USS Constellation, but at least the employee said that all of those in line could get in. I encountered no waiting at any of the places I visited, which was information I was looking for earlier this fall. 

Geppi's Entertainment Museum

Geppi's Entertainment Museum--
When I was a kid I watched the re-runs of the black-and-white Lassie and the color-version when she was on her own.

Dollar Days is especially great for families with little income. The Aquarium's usual prices are Adults: $39.95 and Children (3-11): $24.95. The Science Center's are Adults: $24.95 and Children (3-12): $18.95. So I will send thank you notes to the sponsors and participating sites. 

Jewish Museum of Maryland--quotes from people who lived in surrounding Lombard Street neighborhood. 

I'm not sure how to rank these. From my perspective I suppose I'd place the Babe Ruth

Maryland Science Center--
Feet on the pad at this end, head on pad at top.
After you lie down on the plastic, the employee raises
the nails that go up through holes in the plastic layer.
I could feel the points, but it doesn't hurt at all.

house at the bottom, except that it's interesting to see the rather small size of the rooms and living conditions of people near the start of the 20th century. My favorite part of the Science Center was the bed of nails. Geppi's seems more focused on comic books but with some OK exhibits on pop culture objects. What mainly interested me at the Star-Spangled Banner House was being in a house from the late 1700s/early1800s and seeing objects passed down through the generations from then. As for the wax museum, I like its uniqueness and focus but wish that more of the figures were doing something other than standing. The absence of one for Frederick Douglass surprised me, and I was told his is in the works for next year, the 200th anniversary of his birth.

In Reginald Lewis Museum

I couldn't attend Dollar Days last year, when the Baltimore Streetcar Museum and the Maryland Historical Society (which was free) took part. According to a 2015 Baltimore Sun article, in that year the sites were the same except that also included were the Carroll Mansion/Phoenix Shot Tower and the Washington Monument (Baltimore's) but not the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum.

View of the USS Constellation from the Top of the World

View of the harbor from the Top of the World. Pyramids at bottom left are the National Aquarium;
hill to the right with trees on top is Federal Hill.