SEATTLE – On Oct. 13 at 2 p.m., David Williams, executive director of the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Kent, Wash., discusses his new book, A Race To Freedom: The Mira Slovak Story. In 1953 [Read More]
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SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight presents a special collection of costumes and properties used in the making of Universal Studio’s blockbuster movie First Man. Both the movie and the exhibit, Behind the Scenes of [Read More]
On Saturday, October 27, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St Michaels, Md. will host two live stages of music and an oyster stew competition as part of OysterFest. Oyster stew competitors include Sunflowers and [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s newest waterfowling exhibition will travel to the 48th annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Md. on November 9-11, 2018, before returning to CBMM’s Waterfowling Building through March 2019. Festival ticket holders [Read More]
Cincinnati, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center received recognition for achievement in marketing and advertising at the Ohio Travel Association’s RUBY Awards presentation held Wednesday, September 26, at the 2018 Ohio Conference on [Read More]
CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is now accepting applications for the 2019 Youth Docent program sponsored by and in collaboration with the Cincinnati Chapter of the Links, Incorporated. The program provides [Read More]
CINCINNATI, OH — The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will open its doors free of charge to all Museum Day ticketholders on Saturday, September 22, 2018, as part of Smithsonian magazine’s 14th annual Museum Day, [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., recently held an ice cream social for docent and greeter volunteers to kick-off the fall tour season. Fourteen new volunteers recently completed a five-week-long training course, [Read More]
A portfolio of fine art photographic prints of George Washington’s Headquarters has been acquired by Morristown and Morris Township Library for their North Jersey History and Genealogy Center. The photographs were selected from a collection [Read More]
[ANNAPOLIS, MD] – Norwegian Viking ship, Draken Harald Hårfagre (Draken), today announced St. Michaels, Maryland as the next stop official stop on its Expedition America: East Coast Tour 2018 presented by Highland Park Single Malt [Read More]
The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) has been awarded a $275,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant was given in support of the MMA’s reinstallation of its permanent collection and [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting a two-day Introduction to Rigging workshop on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 & 14, when participants will join CBMM Shipwright Apprentice Sam Hilgartner to learn more about the [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation are inviting the public to see and climb aboard the skipjack Stanley Norman during her Oct. 15-18 stay at CBMM in St. Michaels, Md. On [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the Living Classroom Foundation are inviting the public to climb aboard the pungy schooner Lady Maryland during her Oct. 21-25 stay in St. Michaels, Md. On Sun., Oct. 21, [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight offers free admission on Saturday, Sept. 22, with the presentation of a Smithsonian Museum Day ticket. The Museum Day ticket provides free admission for two people, and is only [Read More]
Sam Hilgartner of Baltimore, Md., has joined the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum as a shipwright apprentice. Hilgartner comes to CBMM from the Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding in Sausalito, Calif., where he was both an [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight joins thousands of Star Wars Reads Day celebrations around our planet on Oct. 13. Star Wars activities at the Museum include family arts and crafts under the Blackbird spyplane, [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is inviting experienced and novice woodworkers to its Open Boatshop program on Wednesdays, Sept. 26, Oct. 17, Nov. 7, and Dec. 12. The program runs from 5:30-8:30pm., with participation limited [Read More]