On Sunday, August 12, 2018, the 9th annual Watermen’s Appreciation Day comes to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., featuring a spirited boat docking contest, steamed crabs and other regional food, live [Read More]
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Due to weather, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has rescheduled its June 2 Paddle with the President to Thursday, June 21 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. The program includes an afternoon paddle on the Miles [Read More]
SEATTLE – On April 25 Peabody award winning author Christian Davenport talks about his new book “The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos.” Drawing on years of investigation [Read More]
SEATTLE – On April 21 Netflix comes to the Museum with Seattle’s only big screen showings of its epic new Lost in Space series. The premier episode will screen in the William M. Allen Theater [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has officially announced its next major shipyard project—a restoration of the 1912 tug Delaware. The restoration will begin with lofting this winter—following the launch of the 1889 bugeye Edna E. [Read More]
The public is invited to join the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum at its St. Michaels, Md., campus on Friday, June 1, from 5–7pm to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition, Lines of the Floating [Read More]
For the 8th consecutive year, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. is participating in the national Blue Star Museums program to offer free, general admission to all active-duty military personnel and their [Read More]
NEW CANAAN, Conn. (April 10th, 2018) – The Glass House continues our ongoing commitment to architecture and the arts with the replacement of the entire ceiling of the iconic structure. The Glass House, completed in [Read More]
BALTIMORE, MD (April 9, 2018)—The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents Meleko Mokgosi: Acts of Resistance, an exhibition that includes a suite of new paintings by the artist that examines the idea of resistance, defined [Read More]
CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will honor Mavis Staples with the Everyday Freedom Hero Award on Friday, April 20 at 6:45 p.m. at Memorial Hall. Ms. Staples is a singer, actress [Read More]
Through ShoreRivers’ coordination and as part of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay’s Project Clean Stream, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum hosted a team of volunteers on Saturday, April 7, to clean up “Heron Haven”—a [Read More]
Construction crews have completed extensive structural work on the mezzanine level and are preparing the lower level lobby and new “avenue,” paving the way for the Duke Energy Children’s Museum to reopen on May 4. [Read More]
SEATTLE – April 14 is droid day at the Museum as The Pacific Northwest R2-D2 Builders Club and their robot friends attend their first Museum Expo. The robots will roaming the galleries from 10 a.m. [Read More]
The Cartoon Art Museum, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit, kicks off its most ambitious and intensive online fundraising campaign to date starting April 4, 2018 through the nonprofit crowdfunding platform YouCaring. The fundraiser aims to finish [Read More]
Christa Clarke, a specialist in historic and contemporary African art, is senior curator, Arts of Global Africa, at the Newark Museum, where she has organized numerous exhibitions on topics ranging from Nigerian modernism to men’s [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the RPM Foundation for the second straight fiscal year. This grant supports CBMM’s shipwright apprentice program, specifically RPM [Read More]
CINCINNATI, OH. – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will host Behind The Color of Money with John W. Jones Saturday, April 7 at 1:30 p.m. The program is in conjunction with Confederate Currency: The [Read More]
What is a miraculous icon and the “powers” that believers feel the icons possess? Docent Michael Popik answers these questions, discusses the role of miraculous icons in daily life, and offers examples of miraculous icons [Read More]