The Annapolis Maritime Museum seeks to connect the richness of the maritime heritage of the Annapolis area with our local youth and adults.The Museum operates from a waterside campus on the shores of Back Creek, with unequaled views of Annapolis Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay.

The Museum campus is the site of the last remaining oyster packing plant in the area, the McNasby's Oyster Packing Company. The McNasby building was severely damaged by Hurricane Isabel in 2003, but has been restored, thanks to community support, as the Bay Experience Center -- an interactive facility like no other. We are preparing for a new exhibit! Our exhibit room will be closed until April 2010 in preparation for our new, signature exhibit, "Oysters on the Half Shell." Programming, such as our popular winter lecture series, will continue throughout the winter and spring in the Bay Room.

The Museum's activities have continued and grown through sheer determination, first in our other campus building, the 650 square-foot Barge House, restored t hrough volunteer efforts and in-kind donations. It is the Museum's "one-room schoolhouse," hosting meetings, lectures, concerts, and children's activities. The Barge House is also the launching point for the Museum's tours to the iconic Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse -- the most famous symbol of the upper Chesapeake Bay.

With a great deal of community support, the Museum has continued to do great things -- full steam ahead! We have accomplished much and there are big plans in the offing. Join us. Participate in history and in keeping history alive.