Museum of the Shenandoah Valley

Explore the Glen Burnie Historic House

The Museum's Glen Burnie Historic House is open for tours March thru November.

Built in 1794, the Glen Burnie Historic House has been home to generations of Wood and Glass families for more than two centuries. The house is presented as furnished by the last family member to live here, Julian Wood Glass Jr. (1910-1992). It presents the objects Glass inherited including Valley pieces dating to the earliest Wood/Glass families along with the notable eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century furniture and fine art that Glass purchased for his ancestral Valley home. House tours are docent-led. The house is surrounded by six acres of spectacular gardens which are also open March through November. A short walk from the house and gardens, the Museum is open year-round. All are open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and closed Monday.

Tours of the historic house are free to MSV Members. For all others, house tour fees are $8 for adults and $6 for seniors and youth (7–18), with additional fees required to tour the MSV galleries.