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]
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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]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., has announced five summer internship opportunities in 2019 for current graduate and undergraduate college students. The internships are available in the curatorial, communications, development, and education [Read More]
On Tuesday, Feb. 19 and continuing Thursday, Feb. 21, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering a Krenov-style plane-making workshop that runs from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. each evening, with each participant going home [Read More]
SEATTLE – The annual Yuri’s Night 21+ dance party at The Museum of Flight is April 12, and this year it offers a preview of the new traveling exhibition, Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, [Read More]
CINCINNATI, OH. (January 30, 2019) – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center announced the museum will be open seven days a week year round beginning January, 28. The operating hours will remain Sunday – Monday: [Read More]
Guests visiting the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on Sunday, Feb. 17, will have the opportunity to watch teams of experienced U.S. handler/dog teams train on campus, in addition to the chance to see CBMM’s numerous [Read More]
Iver C. Franzen Maritime, LLC, an Annapolis-based firm specializing in historic vessel naval architecture services, has been chosen by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum to design the newest iteration of 17th century pinnace Maryland Dove. [Read More]
Please join us as we celebrate the opening of Konstantin Simun: The Sacred in the Profane, presented in partnership with the Fitchburg Art Museum. The Sacred in the Profane, curated by Fitchburg Art Museum Curator [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will be hosting programs introducing participants to basic woodworking and rope splicing this spring. Both workshops will be held in CBMM’s Shipyard, and advanced registration is required. Intro to Woodworking [Read More]
The 8th annual Eastern Shore Sea Glass and Coastal Arts Festival in St. Michaels, Md. will now have a larger, waterfront location at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. The festival takes place at CBMM on [Read More]
Join Fitchburg Art Museum Curator Lisa Crossman for an engaging look at the art of Konstantin Simun in his latest exhibition The Sacred in the Profane. In his work, Simun poses the question “trash or [Read More]
Farewell Tour, Corncobs to Cosmonauts Saturday, January 26, 1:00pm Free with Admission Join Registrar Laura Garrity-Arquitt for a special farewell tour of the special exhibition From Corncobs to Cosmonauts: Redefining the Holidays in the Soviet [Read More]
The Grey House by Mariam Petrosyan. This bestselling and first novel by Petrosyan tells the story of physically disabled students living in the House, overlooked by the Outsides. The House, a hulking old structure that [Read More]