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Financial Donations

You can help ensure the Museum’s success and vitality by making a donation to our “Full Steam Ahead” annual fund.

It's been an incredible year! One look at the Annapolis Maritime Museum campus and you'll see that we have been running "full steam ahead!" In order to keep the momentum growing, we need your help -- especially now that the newly renovated McNasby Oyster Company building is proving to be a valuable asset to the community. I'm writing today to ask you to help ensure the Museum's success and vitality at this critical time by making a donation to our "Full Steam Ahead" annual fund.

Thanks to your support this past year, we've completed the renovations of that historic structure, the last vestige of a once-thriving – but now vanishing -- oyster industry. The McNasby building is even now fulfilling its promise to provide Annapolis with a state-of-the-art waterfront educational facility, including classrooms, an exhibition gallery, and an assembly hall that can be used for classes, lectures, concerts, and community meetings. Our docks are available for visiting by boat, for water taxi service from City Dock, and for fishing, crabbing, or enjoying the million-dollar view where the Severn River meets the Chesapeake Bay.

And while we've been rebuilding the Museum campus, we've been building our services to the community. This past year alone, we've:

• Served more than 2,000 school children in our educational programs
• Launched an initiative to expand our innovative "MUDDY FEET" ("Maritime Unbounded Damp & Dirty Yucky Fun Environmental Education & Training") program to all public schools in the City of Annapolis over the next three years
• Hired new full-time education director, Charlotte Rich, who is 100% committed to achieving that goal
• Partnered with NOAA and the Maryland Association of Environmental Outdoor Education (MAEOE) to become a certified "green" facility and to help area schools become certified
• Produced two exhibitions based on our unique maritime heritage, "Over the Bridge: The History of Eastport at Annapolis," and "Legacy of the Bay: the Hartge Family and the Chesapeake 20"
• Completed our third season of public tours to the Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse
• Produced our popular "Winter Maritime Heritage Seminar Series"
• Hosted the "Summertime Maritime Concert Series" enjoyed by more than 2,000 visitors

In 2010, we intend to continue to serve the community in an even more robust way, while at the same time staying focused on bringing the McNasby building back to life with exciting new programs, events and exhibitions. I can't wait to show you the plans for the new "Oysters on the Half Shell" exhibit that will open in April, with its 800-gallon oyster reef aquarium. It's a big job for a small staff to accomplish -- that's why we need your help!

The Annapolis Maritime Museum is a 501(c)(3) organization.

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