The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is hosting three free workshops for educators this summer. The first workshop, from 10am–3:30pm Wednesday, July 11, invites educators to follow the blue crab from the Bay to the table in the hands-on Chesapeake’s Best Crab Cakes Educator Workshop. The program is designed to complement CBMM’s […]
Continue ReadingFrom 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 and advanced registration needed. Christian Benefiel, sculpture artist and Shepherd University Professor, will lead these public workshops, guiding participants through […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 process began in mid-2017, under the leadership of President Kristen Greenaway. “CBMM’s Master Plan is a vision for CBMM’s campus […]
Continue ReadingYouth groups can now reserve fall dates for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Lighthouse Overnight Adventures program. Dates include select Fridays and Saturdays, Aug. 31 through Oct. 27, 2018 with advanced reservations needed. Under the guidance of a museum educator, adventure participants can travel back in time to explore the life of a late-19th-century lighthouse […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday, June 2, 2018 from 10am–noon, join Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum President Kristen Greenaway for a morning paddle on the Miles River and a demonstration of how to use a Greenland paddle. Born and raised in New Zealand, Greenaway spent part of her youth with her parents and two siblings living aboard a 32-foot […]
Continue ReadingFor 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 immediate families from Memorial Day weekend, May 26, 2018 through Labor Day, September 3, 2018. Blue Star Museums represents a […]
Continue ReadingThe schooner Sultana will be at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. beginning on Sunday, May 13, and continuing through Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Sultana returns to CBMM on Friday, June 29, and continues through Sunday, July 1. While docking at CBMM, Sultana will be hosting students in an under-sail environmental science […]
Continue ReadingThe St. Michaels Art League will showcase original artwork created exclusively by League members during the month of May at the St. Michaels Library. The show will be judged by Laura Era, co-owner of the well-known Troika Gallery of Easton, Maryland. Laura is best known for her commissioned portraits and her work hangs in collections […]
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This Father’s Day weekend, more than 60 juried maritime artists and craftspeople from around the country will be showing and selling their beautiful works of art along the Miles River and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. The June 15-17 Arts at Navy Point is part of the 31st Annual Antique & […]
Continue ReadingThe thrill of log canoe racing—four to 18 people in choreographed motion, balancing the strain on the rig, calling out puffs and lifts, eyeing the competition, sailing low on the water with enough horsepower to exceed theoretical hull speed in optimum conditions—is an experience seldom equaled, and one that is explored in a new book, […]
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