Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Climb an 1879 screw-pile lighthouse and watch shipwrights restore wooden Bay boats on a St. Michaels waterfront campus.

213 N Talbot St · St. Michaels, MD

About Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

This 18-acre waterfront campus in St. Michaels tells the story of the Chesapeake Bay through its boats, watermen and communities. The Hooper Strait Lighthouse, an 1879 screw-pile light barged here in 1966, anchors a site of more than 30 buildings and a floating fleet of historic vessels. In the working shipyard you can watch the restoration of the Bay's historic boats, and river cruises run aboard the Patriot. Admission is good for two days.

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