The Museum holds a more than 11,000 objects, ranging from fine and decorative arts, to miniature houses and furniture, to artifacts native to the Shenandoah Valley. The latter collection is notable for baskets, ceramics, furniture, paintings, silver, textiles.
The Founders Gallery presents rotating exhibitions featuring objects from the collection of European and American fine and decorative arts, and the Changing Exhibitions Gallery displays temporary exhibitions throughout the year.
The 214-acre campus includes the Glen Burnie Manor House (c.1794) (see separate listing) where, along with a display of a collection of decorative objects, interpretive panels tell the story of the house and the people who have lived in Glen Burnie over the generations.