Since its founding, Peerless Rockville has gathered information and objects relevant to the development of Rockville as a community and as the seat of Montgomery County, Maryland. Initially collecting for preservation activities, Peerless Rockville now utilizes these resources for general and academic research, and other educational purposes. Items in our collections are often used to interpret historic sites, present exhibits, and to share information on historic people, places and events.

The Peerless Rockville Collection includes documents, photographs, and objects collections. The archives consist of unpublished manuscripts, maps, family and business papers, and oral histories. Objects include books, artifacts, and historical memorabilia. Our extensive photograph collection contains images from professional and amateur photographers and family historians.

The Peerless Rockville Collections is comprised of an Archives and Museum Collection.  The archives consist of unpublished manuscripts, maps, family and business papers, oral histories and graphic arts.  The Museum Collection contains more than 7,500 objects dating from pre-Colonial times to the present and includes photographs, books, decorative and fine arts, archeological artifacts, and historical memorabilia.

The Collections’ strengths include building histories, photographs, maps, oral histories, black history, cemeteries, and the evolution of local government.