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Selfie Museum 'The Spotlight' Opens At Mall In Columbia

A selfie museum called The Spotlight has opened at the Mall in Columbia.

According to the owners, The Spotlight is the first chain of selfie museums in Maryland.
According to the owners, The Spotlight is the first chain of selfie museums in Maryland. (David Allen/Patch)

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — A selfie museum called The Spotlight has opened at the Mall in Columbia.

According to the owners, The Spotlight is the first chain of selfie museums in Maryland.

Katoriae “Tori” Brown-Harding, a Baltimore native currently living in Pennsylvania, started the business during the pandemic. Her husband Brian is a photography. Brown-Harding told The Daily Record she came up with the idea for The Spotlight after she and her children visited a selfie museum on a trip to Florida.

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In addition to providing photo backdrops, the business offers in-house professional photography. Packages run from use of the backgrounds for $25 per person for 30 minutes or $45 for an hour; a professional photo session starts at $100, the newspaper reported.

The business has locations on the first floor of the Mall in Columbia and the third floor of Towson Town Center Mall, according to its website.

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Last year, Take A Shot opened as Baltimore’s first rooftop selfie museum. It's located at 901 Fell St.

For more information on the mall museums, visit thespotlightlive.com.

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