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A Place Tattooed In History

Getting a tattoo: the main attraction at the Baltimore Tattoo Museum. Artist David Sobel works on a client.

For those who enjoy interactive museums, the Baltimore Tattoo Museum is probably as hands on as they come, since the main attraction involves having ink embedded into your skin with a needle through hundreds of rapid injections.

Located on Eastern Avenue in Fell's Point, the museum is a cross between a tattoo parlor and an art gallery.

Patrons to the museum can view not only tattoo art and artifacts on the walls and in glass cases, but also real people getting tattooed through cubicle windows.

Admission to the museum is free.

Tattoos cost $50 at minimum, but the final cost can run into the hundreds, even thousands of dollars, depending on size and completion time, says co-owner Bill Stevenson. 

 

 

 

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Photos and text by Fanen Chiahemen
Published Friday, May 9, 2003


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