SEATTLE, March 12, 2019—Over 400 students will attend the Museum’s March 21-22 Women Fly 2019 program for middle school and high school students. The annual program invites students to participate in a day of motivational [Read More]
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The public is invited to attend Easter Sunrise Service on the Miles River at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. Coordinated and led by Bay Hundred Covenant Churches, the service is scheduled [Read More]
Katelyn Kean of Newtown, Conn., has joined the staff of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum as the registrar for its collection of more than 70,000 Bay-related objects. In this role, she will help to maintain [Read More]
The pilot house of the tug Huntington recently returned to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum after extensive metal refurbishing and repair. All restoration work was performed by E. H. Harvey Metal Working Co. of Easton, [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) and the Ohio Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) are giving guests a look at one of the nation’s most biodiverse regions through the photographer’s lens and the researcher’s [Read More]
Acclaimed Baltimore-based artists Elissa Blount Moorhead and Mina Cheon talk about their video-making practices through the lenses of collaboration, power, and family, on Thursday, February 28 at 7–9 p.m. Moderated by artist Lee Heinemann of [Read More]
CINCINNATI – There is much other museums can learn from Cincinnati Museum Center’s two-and-a-half-year effort to move out, move back in, overhaul two museums and save a National Historic Landmark. So many, in fact, the [Read More]
Two educational opportunities are returning to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., this April—Homeschool Day and Family Day. With activities designed for school-age audiences, both programs encourage guests to experience CBMM’s waterfront [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering guests the chance to learn about traditional iron casting in St. Michaels, Md., this March through its Apprentice for a Day Shipyard Programs. The public is first invited [Read More]
An exhibition showcasing many roles of women both in maritime industries and beyond will open at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., this spring. On Land and On Sea: A Century of [Read More]
Enjoy groovy hors d’oeuvres, far out cocktails, and mod music. Fab attire encouraged. Can you dig it? Be there or be square. A Night at the Museum provides support for FAM’s education initiatives, exhibitions, and [Read More]
Jane Sinclair, apprenticeship navigator for the Division of Workforce Development & Adult Learning with the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation, recently paid a visit to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, [Read More]
A new exhibition in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Waterfowling building, Deconstructing Decoys: The Culture of Collecting, will open to the public on Saturday, April 13, 2019. What makes a decoy “collectible”? How do you [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency have earned the non-profit museum a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator. This is the third consecutive [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Attention inventors, tinkerers, hackers and mad scientists! Cincinnati Mini Maker Faire is back at Union Terminal. Cincinnati Museum Center’s family-friendly showcase of imagination, design and ingenuity will once again take over Union Terminal [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum was honored on Jan. 31, 2019, by the Maryland Historical Trust’s Board of Trustees at its 44th Maryland Preservation Awards. CBMM’s Edna E. Lockwood restoration project was one of 11 [Read More]
SEATTLE – On Feb. 16-17 the Museum hosts the region’s largest exhibition of scale models, the 2019 NorthWest Scale Modelers Show. The exhibit takes over the floor of the Museum’s Great Gallery with hundreds of [Read More]
SEATTLE – On Feb. 9 two perennial favorites provide a wonderland and a haven for young geeks when the Popsicle Stick Bridge Building Contest and the Engineering Fair return to the Museum. The remarkably rambunctious [Read More]