Wooden and fiberglass classics, vintage racers, and other antique and Chesapeake Bay-related boats are returning to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum beginning Friday, June 17, for the 34th Antique & Classic Boat Festival and the [Read More]
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On Wednesdays May 4–June 1, join the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and singer/songwriter Janie Meneely for a virtual songwriting workshop. Held each evening from 7–7:45pm via Zoom, songwriting sessions will include examples and discussions about [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering several kayak paddles this spring and summer to help people get out of the house and on the water. Registration is required for all paddles, with a list [Read More]
BALTIMORE, MD (April 6, 2022)—The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) today announces Jessica Bell Brown has been named as Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art. In this role, she will lead a department comprising [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and Eastern Shore Yoga are offering multiple sessions of outdoor yoga this spring and summer. On Tuesdays in May and June from 5:30–6:30pm, Jenn Swaine, owner and certified yoga instructor [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) announced today the hiring of its new Curator of Photographs, Prints & Media. Arabeth Balasko brings 18 years of experience to CMC’s collections of more than one million photographs, [Read More]
CINCINNATI – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has again been voted one of the country’s top three history museums. USA TODAY announced the results of their 10Best Readers’ Choice awards today, revealing that the [Read More]
Families are invited to join the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Workshop Education team for a hands-on workshop from 10am–noon Saturday, April 23. Held in CBMM’s Workshop Annex, families will be able to build a small [Read More]
Chris Dietze and Asma Naeem to guide museum during its transition period following Christopher Bedford’s departure in June 2022 BALTIMORE, MD – The Board of Trustees of the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced today [Read More]
Homeschool students and their chaperones are invited to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., for a Homeschool Day on Thursday, April 14. Programs will be held at 10:30am and 1pm, with individual [Read More]
Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center have again achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, the highest national recognition afforded the nation’s museums. CMC first received accreditation in 2012 [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight’s popular, pre-pandemic Free First Thursday program resumes in April. Beginning on April 7, every first Thursday of the month the Museum will extend its hours until 9 p.m., with [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is pleased to announce that it will soon open another new exhibition, Dove Tales, scheduled to be on display from April 21–Dec. 31, 2022, in its Steamboat Building. Dove Tales [Read More]
Kristen Greenaway, President of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, will be honored at the 11th annual National Maritime Awards Dinner at the National Press Club on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Wednesday evening, April 27, [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Few individuals can stake such a long list of firsts in American legal history as Macon Bolling Allen, including, most notably, the first African American licensed to practice law. And while Allen may [Read More]
CINCINNATI – “A piece of this young basalt is completely separated from its mother. Its brothers and sisters lie nearby. Let’s call him Bok.” So begins the story of one intrepid rock and its journey [Read More]
On Saturday & Sunday, March 19–20, from 10am–4pm, experienced woodworkers and beginners alike are invited to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum to learn the basics of nameboard carving. CBMM’s Shipyard Programs Manager Jennifer Kuhn will [Read More]
On Saturday, April 2, and Sunday, April 3, the Eastern Shore Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival will return to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. The festival, now in its 10th [Read More]