OysterFest, a celebration of the Chesapeake’s favorite bivalve, will return to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. The event features live music, an oyster stew competition, boat rides, retriever demonstrations, oysters [Read More]
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With days beginning to shorten and fall approaching, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s marine railway service season will soon be coming to a close. Led by Shipwright James DelAguila, and with the hard work of [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is offering three sessions of its Family Boatshop program this fall. Participation is limited, with advanced registration needed. Held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., recently received a $100,000 grant from the Grayce B. Kerr Fund, an Easton-based philanthropy that supports educational achievement and growth. “The Grayce B. Kerr Fund is [Read More]
Rare Art, Artifacts, Manuscripts and Currencies Will Illustrate the Black Experience in America CINCINNATI, OH –The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center announces its upcoming exhibition schedule today, featuring The Kinsey African American Art & History [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Model Guild is offering a beginner’s model boatbuilding workshop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 21 and 22, with limited participation and advanced registration needed. The weekend workshop [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., begins its Fall Speaker Series on Oct. 18 and continues on select dates through Dec. 6, 2017. All of the sessions from the four-part series will [Read More]
Through a grant from the Miles River Yacht Club Foundation, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will be addressing boater safety at its September 2 Charity Boat Auction by providing free life jackets with boats auctioned [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will host a four-day Timber Framing Workshop this fall, running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, September 28, to Sunday, October 1. In this workshop, participants will learn about [Read More]
Dominic Marinucci of Ridgely, Md., has joined the staff of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., as a Seasonal Boat Cleaner with the Charity Boat Donation Program. CBMM’s Charity Boat Donation Program [Read More]
Angela Susan Anton, president of the board of trustees of Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., announced that Charles A. Riley II, Ph.D. has been named director of the Museum. Dr. Riley’s [Read More]
Winners to be Recognized for Contest Sponsored By Toyota Summer 2017 CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has announced the winners of the third annual 2017 Toyota Picture Freedom Art Contest and [Read More]
Screening of THE FARTHEST–Voyager in Space in advance of PBS premiere SEATTLE – This is the 40th anniversary of the launch of the twin Voyager spacecraft, humankind’s first messengers to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and [Read More]
Swing back in time as Cincinnati Museum Center’s 1940s Day lands at Lunken Airport August 12 CINCINNATI – Grab your dancing shoes, put on your red lipstick and travel back in time to the 1940s [Read More]
Homeschool students and their chaperones are invited to St. Michaels, Md. and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum for a Homeschool Day on Thursday, September 21. Programs will be held at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., [Read More]
CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is hosting Community Conversations: Locked Up for Justice on Thursday, August 17, at 6:30 p.m. The conversation features biology and chemistry professor David Fankhauser discussing the [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. is hosting an evening Girls’ Woodshop program, running Monday, August 21, to Wednesday, August 23, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. each day. Over the course of [Read More]
NEW GALLERY INSTALLATION “LIFE IN THE ADIRONDACKS” AT ADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE PROVIDES AN IMMERSIVE, INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION OF ADIRONDACK HISTORY, CULTURE, AND PEOPLE New permanent exhibition celebrates 60th anniversary of indoor/outdoor museum BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE, NY… Adirondack [Read More]