This summer, CBMM offers a training program that will prepare volunteers to work with the public, either as greeters welcoming guests to CBMM or as interpreters. Participants will learn the content and skills necessary to [Read More]
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CINCINNATI – Engineers, steelworkers and welders recently completed necessary repairs to steel on Union Terminal’s mezzanine level as part of the building’s first full structural restoration. Cincinnati Museum Center released a video detailing the meticulous [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has announced the addition of two new members to its full-time staff; Elizabeth Bourdin, and Jamaal Henry. Bourdin joins CBMM as its Human Resources Generalist & Payroll Accountant. She will [Read More]
SEATTLE – After 26 years of open storage at Paine Field, Everett, the Museum’s 1959 Boeing B-52 bomber will be moved to the Museum’s West Campus at Boeing Field in Seattle. Not flight worthy, the [Read More]
CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center announced today that it will be open on Sundays throughout the summer, Noon to 5:00 p.m., beginning May 27. The museum will also be open to [Read More]
From Tuesday, July 24, through Saturday, July 28, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., will offer two bronze casting workshops in its boatshop. Participants must be 16 or older, with class-size limited [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Attention inventors, tinkerers, hackers, mad scientists and makers! Cincinnati Mini Maker Faire is back. Cincinnati Museum Center’s family-friendly showcase of imagination, design and ingenuity will once again take over the Hamilton County Fairgrounds [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight recognizes Memorial Day with an 11 a.m. performance by the Boeing Employee Concert Band, followed at noon with a special ceremony commemorating fallen U.S. service members. The keynote speaker [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering two kayak paddles this summer to help its guests get out on the water. Registration for both is required to cbmm.org/paddles. The first offering is scheduled for 9am–1pm [Read More]
CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has named Jacqueline K. Dace as its new deputy director effective June 11, 2018. Dace is currently the director of internal affairs at the National Blues [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is inviting the public to a Community Forum on Tuesday, June 19, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium, when CBMM will host a community conversation and share more [Read More]
SEATTLE – On May 17, Town Hall Seattle and The Museum of Flight host a lecture and book signing with space experts, Alan Stern and David Grinspoon, who will share insight from their new book [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., has announced the completion of a new Master Plan, which will create increased space for CBMM’s core museum offerings—including exhibitions, education, and Shipyard. CBMM’s Master Plan [Read More]
Ta-Nehisi Coates—author of Marvel Comic’s Black Panther series, National Book Award winner, and national correspondent for The Atlantic—talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford on alternative futures unapologetically rooted in black culture and technology. This is [Read More]
This Labor Day weekend, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting the 21st annual Charity Boat Auction on Saturday, September 1. More than 100 donated boats and watercraft—ranging in size and performance from luxury boats [Read More]
Florence, Italy – The basilica of San Miniato al Monte, a Romanesque masterpiece established a thousand years ago as a basilica by Bishop Ildebrando, celebrates its millennial anniversary with the meticulous restoration of its Chapel [Read More]
As part of the festivities during the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Community Day on Sunday, May 20, student participants in CBMM’s Rising Tide Program will launch two newly built Smith Island outboard skiffs. Rising Tide [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) is inviting people to reconnect with their favorite exhibits and fall in love with the Duke Energy Children’s Museum all over again when it reopens May 4. After a [Read More]