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]
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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]
With warm weather and clear skies, nearly 260 crew are working outside, inside, above and below Union Terminal every day. As work wraps up in one area it begins in another, with multiple projects ongoing [Read More]
On Saturday, October 7, and Sunday, October 8, 2017, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will host one of the nation’s largest gatherings of small boat enthusiasts and unique watercraft at the 34th annual Mid-Atlantic Small [Read More]
Youth groups can now reserve fall dates for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Lighthouse Overnight Adventures program. Dates include select Fridays and Saturdays, Sept. 1 through Oct. 28, with advanced reservations needed for groups of [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum recently received two TripAdvisor 2017 Certificate of Excellence awards. These awards celebrate excellence in hospitality and are only given to establishments consistently achieving great traveler reviews on TripAdvisor. In addition [Read More]
Most of us may be living in shorts and flip flops, doing our best to stay cool during the summer but it’s never too early to start the countdown to the holidays. This year you’ll [Read More]
Author, astronomer and artist Tyler Nordgren shows history of the solar eclipse SEATTLE – On July 29, author, astronomer, artist, and professor Tyler Nordgren describes how different cultures interpret eclipses through a series of accounts [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is adding an August 16-17 Maryland DNR-approved boater safety course after demand exceeded capacity for its July course. The education program takes place from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. each [Read More]