Upcoming Events
Public Tours 1st Saturday of each month, weather permitting.
Tours are offered the 1st Saturday of each month at 11:00am and 1:00pm. Tours last approximately 1 hour. Participants should enter the Burying Ground at the corner of Fayette and Greene Street. Please dress appropriately; a portion of the tour is held outside. Tours include the Burying Ground and Catacombs.
Fees are $5.00 for adults, children 4 and under FREE. Please bring exact change. If your group has more than 10 individuals, please contact us for arrangements. For tour information and date confirmations, contact 410-706-2072 or email info@westminsterhall.org. If a tour is canceled, it will be posted on our website.
Edgar at the Hippodrome, October 3, 2026, beginning at 5:00pm
Ballet 5:8 brings The Curious Life of Edgar Allan Poe to Baltimore for one performance at the Hippodrome Theatre on Saturday, October 3 at 5:00 p.m. The full-length story ballet explores Poe’s life, imagination, grief, love, and the experiences that shaped some of his most enduring work. The performance arrives during Baltimore’s International Edgar Allan Poe Festival weekend. For more information visit: The Curious Life of Edgar Allan Poe | Ballet 5:8 at Harris Theater | Ballet 5:8.
Edgar Allan Poe's History of Mystery at Westminster Hall
October 1st - 4th
Celebrating 185 Years of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and the Invention of the Detective
Before Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Nancy Drew, Columbo, Scooby-Doo, and every brilliant investigator who ever faced an impossible case, there was C. Auguste Dupin. First introduced in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” in 1841, Dupin became literature’s first detective, and Poe’s tale became the first great locked-room mystery: a brutal crime, a baffled police force, and one strange genius able to see what everyone else had missed.
Poe did more than invent the detective. Across “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” “The Purloined Letter,” “The Gold-Bug,” and “Thou Art the Man,” he helped create the machinery of modern mystery: the eccentric investigator, the loyal narrator, the clue hidden in plain sight, the puzzle solved through reason, the cryptogram, the false trail, and the final revelation.
Poe Baltimore, The Poe Museum (Richmond,) Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the NSA's National Cryptologic Museum present a new exhibit celebrating Poe’s invention of the detective and his lasting influence on mystery, crime-solving, codebreaking, and popular culture. Led by The Poe Museum, the exhibit brings together first printings, rare artifacts, interpretive panels, and interactive experiences that invite visitors to follow Poe’s clues across the stories that launched a genre. For more information visit Poe Baltimore here.
Self-Guided Tours of the Burying Ground, weather permitting.
The Burying Ground is open daily from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; if there is ice or snow the grounds close. If the main cemetery gates are locked during these times, please call 410-706-6882 for University of Maryland, Baltimore campus security to unlock.
Stone/Grave Rubbing is not permitted in the Burying Ground. Stone Rubbing is the practice of creating an image of surface features of a stone on paper.
To enter the Burying Ground, use the gates at the corner of Greene and Fayette Street. Self-guided tours are free to the public; tour guides are not available. If you are filming or plan to host an event at Westminster Hall or in the Burying Ground, please contact 410-706-2072 or email info@westminsterhall.org. There are no restrooms on site. Limited street parking is available, or visitors can park in the Baltimore Grand Garage located at 5 North Paca Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. Please note, the Catacombs are not open for self-guided tours.
Baltimore Heritage Tours
Westminster Hall partners with Baltimore Heritage to bring additional tours of the Catacombs. Baltimore Heritage is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving historic buildings and revitalizing neighborhoods. Baltimore Heritage and its partners celebrate the historic places that tell the stories of families, neighborhoods and Baltimore City as a whole.
Registration for Baltimore Heritage Tours are made through Baltimore Heritage.
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