Reviews of Annapolis Maritime Museum (Museum)

Tony Hicks

Kid friendly

Fatima Thioune

AMAZINGGGG and ACCOMMODATING PLACE to hold a party at. We had our company party here and the space was absolutely beautiful and right on the water. Gorgeous and spacious! Staff and event coordinators are super easy and friendly to work with. We used BE MY GUEST from their catering list choices and Omg they were fantastic. They made hosting an event sooo relaxing. We did not stress one bit! I HIGHLY HIGHLYYYY recommend Be My Guest catering!!

J. Gaston Doucet

Nice, small, historic place.

Rui Gong

nice

Michael Kennedy

Annual Eastport Oyster Roast and Sock Burning! Awesome

SA Kleiner

Nice review of local fishery history.

John Hanou

Nice place to visit if you are in Annapolis.

Ian Furlong

Worth a visit.

Suzanne Vaughn

Art gallery, Chesapeake Bay educational displays and programs and excellent lectures. A wonderful place for a family visit.

Kiesett Newton

The exhibit on oyster packing in early Annapolis was interesting.

Kathy Ginevan

Nice events, street limited parking. Kayaking launch

RON GLOCKNER

Great little historical museum. The staff was great too. A must see, will not take much of your time.

Parveen Sikand

A peep into the history of East Port

Tammy Z

Great place!!!

Joanna Bradshaw

We were in the area for the band festival with over 25 bands. So much fun. Really enjoyed our time there.

Virginia Fannin

This is a really great museum that used to be an oyster packing facility years ago. There are three vintage wooden oyster & crab harvesting boats outside and a couple inside. Plenty of history & photos here about the Chesapeake Bay oyster harvesting industry that peaked a long time ago.

Margaret Radford

Wonderful! This museum is not to be missed when visiting Annapolis!

Patrick Ostrye

This is a good place to get married.

NANCY O'DONNEL

Amazing place! Great for kids and "old kids" young at heart.

Robert Rounds

I really enjoyed the docent, as he took the time to show us around

Chris Hoover

Scenic, beautiful facility.

Cecil Hawkins

Had a nice time fishing there

Andre Boger

Muito legal o Museu e o complexo da Navy.

erika prophet payne

It is not fair to people in the community that have been living here for years not to be able to go to a public beach, because of a wedding. The beach is not apart of the Maritime.

Denise Robinson

Wonderful history of the water/watermen of the Chesapeake

Eugene Schaffer

A great local and often overlooked museum. The local flavor and knowledgeable staff are supported by a great location and rich history. Some have noted the opportunities for parties and wedding receptions as well. Many historical sites have included this in their work and the Maritime Museum have been very accommodating.

Mark B.

A gem of a museum! Inside the museum there are exhibits showing how the oysters were harvested and then canned with tons of photos.The "exploded" boat (maybe 'sawed in half' would be a better description) with a list of the parts is very cool, it lets you see just how the oyster boat is constructed. Then there are two boats outside that are very interesting as well. One is a draketail and it just looks like it is built for speed. Can't imagine working from its deck with an oyster tong in my hands... The other outside boat is a bugeye sailboat, if memory serves. Just a beautiful craft. Plus there is a very nice shaded dock area with views of the marina and creek with the bay in the background. Great place to visit! It is free, but hit the Donation jar at the entry if you can!

Ben Swann

Former Home to McNasby Seafood & Oyster Company, the museum has permanent and rotating exhibits and host many special events, including the summertime 'Tides & Tunes' concerts as well as daily tours. The museum is host to a variety of Maritime exhibits including historic boats, scale model of Thomas Point Lighthouse, art gallery, fish tank, and the main focus Oyster harvesting and processing with a special exhibit of cannon used in the "oyster wars". Volunteers such as myself are proud to give tours about the culture and economy of Eastport Annapolis and Chesapeake Bay Heritage.

John Curran

Went to a special event food and service was excellent. Definitely worth trying

Susanne Vaughn

The museum was small but interesting.

Mark Allen

Take the kids

Smiley Harris

Very informative. Museum is surrounded by water and boats. Quaint.

Sean Sheya

It was awesome!

linthoms

Always a pleasure to visit. Beautiful museum by the water.

Melissa Giusti

My husband and I had a courthouse wedding earlier this year but still wanted to celebrate with our family and friends at some point. We went to a rehearsal dinner at the Museum a couple of years ago and I fell in love with it. So, when we decided we wanted to have the celebration in Annapolis (my husband's hometown) I only looked at one venue. The Museum is just so unique, low-key, and genuinely Annapolis. I also loved giving our venue money to a Museum and good cause. Once we met Paige to tour the venue and knew our date was available, we were set. Paige was very responsive to our request to set up a meeting and flexible with our limited availability to meet (we do not live in the area). Since we were already married we did not have a ceremony at the Museum, just a December reception for 126 guests starting at 6pm. When you tour the space, it seems like the capacity of 150 would be tight, but we ended up having plenty of room. It was also daylight when we toured the space, so were bummed that it would be dark by the time our guests arrived and they wouldn't really get the water views, but the venue looked GORGEOUS at night. We went with all white tables, chairs, tablecloths, plateware, etc and gold accents (framed pictures, table numbers, vases, votives, etc) and white and green bouquets and it looked amazing. We had two heaters outside on the tented deck and guests loved being out there for the raw bar, drinks, apps, dessert, etc. I loved that we didn't have to worry about weather - it was nice that it didn't rain/snow for outdoor pictures prior but it would not have put a damper on the main event at all! I could go on and on about how perfect the venue was. So many guests asked us how we found it. The only downsides (which I'm not going to dock any points for since we knew all of this going in) were that the party has to end by 10pm and that buses can't get all the way down to the venue. Could not recommend AMM more!!!

Rob Dovi

Not very interesting. I room with a few pictures and a dissected boat.

Barb

Best wedding ever!

Bunky Dog

Great educational museum connecting the past Chesapeake Bay culture with our modern day needs to maintain the health and function of the bay ecosystem.

Ronnie Aurello

Great small museum.

Rick Sarmento

Great fun. Summer concert series is a blast Food trucks, beer, wine, and music all on the water. What more do you need?

Jamsé Bönd

even on an Overcast Day, the view

derek rhind

Great place for z wander along the front and soak up some history

Bill Krafft

An incredible venue for a special celebration. Any other place wouldn't have provided the experience we had for our wedding.

Carol Wass

Nicely done ,.perfect spot on a nice day .Friendly staff on hand.

Renato Aranha

Cool

Jessica Ostrye

Beautiful venue for a wedding, well kept facilities and friendly staff. Thank you for a great time!

James Bunk

Went for a wedding reception. It was very nice and had a nice outside deck

Leslie Levitt

Beautiful and informative museum.

Jeanne Kingsland

A really wonderful public space with a small historic informational Museum, and waterfront views, educational programs, and it is an amazing outdoor music venue.

Barbara Warner

This area of Annapolis is called East Port. We were doing a self guided tour using an app called "Whereigo" that a fellow Geocache had created as part of the 2018 Cache Across Maryland geocaching event. This tour took us where we had been but we're not aware of it's special community history.

Aldo O. Gallese

(Translated by Google) Small but interesting (Original) Piccolo ma interessante

Robert Hale

Awsome

Amanda Rae Noss Smith

Love this spot. So many things to see. On Thursdays there's live music. A lot of other event ago on here too!

Ministerios Mahanaim

Nice place

Bill Murphy

Neat info

Steven Norris

Great history lesson of boats on the bay.

Tim Pracher

Small but interesting museum. The one staff person was very friendly.

Stacy Lancaster

Nice little museum. Very small but worth seeing! We went to an event here. They have a large room which is great for a small group gathering.

Rob Lewandowski

Great wedding venue!

Abhinav Nigam

A small museum which was used as oyster shucking place before. Not much to see but the view from outside deck of the bay is pretty good.

BriasRocks

Amazing beautiful love it

gabrielle martinez

Black History?.... missing the WHOLE story.

Ron Roebuck

Great band

Joe Eberly

Great place for public water access - two piers out into back creek for fishing, crabbing, bird watching, photography, etc. You can see the Bay Bridge and Chesapeake Bay from here. Inside you will find fun history from the waterman days of Eastport. It is also a great place to host an event. There are 3 historic boats on the premises. Don't forget to check out Wild Country Seafood closeby.

Cindy Zick

Great little museum! Very informative about the oyster industry. Very interesting.

Forest Platt

Great little gem of a museum on the local commercial history and on the bay ecology.

Travonne Crayton

Great venue for a wedding. Beautiful views

Ron Ricketts

Great venue for events... an Eastport treasure

JUDITH MODLIN

This welcoming little museum greets you with a small free parking lot and a tiny outdoor park with sturdy wooden bench, historic work boats on display, piers to view the bay, and a free public canoe launch. Inside the museum building you'll find a large aquarium you can "step into" (behind glass) with handy touch screen information, a boat kids can climb board, and interesting displays about the creatures of the Chesapeake Bay and the historical seafood industry in Annapolis. Includes nice public restrooms, a tiny gift shop, and a large rentable events room lined with regional art photography.

Tim Watts

Well done shows history small parking lot difficult to find a space.

Brigid Mires

cute little museum

Charles Hill

Great location very clean and pretty

Susan Arnett

Great bay views, interesting exhibits, good art shows, friendly staff

Raleigh Lemon

Great place to work and to relax That's where you want to be.

Stephon Green

Cool place to spend about an hour. Not much parking though.

Edward Nead

Very interesting but very small. A person could view all the exhibits in roughly 15 minutes.

John Wright

Great place for a wedding, reception, party, get-together......

Ryan Brown

Very nice. Staff was friendly and knowledgeable. History of the academy was very interesting.

Darlene Fox

Beautiful model ship collection from English builders from as far back as 1400's.

Mike Moyer

Extremely friendly staff. I took a work group there and they couldn’t have been more accommodating. I would recommend having a wedding reception at this romantic spot!

Lindsay Fisher Gallagher

I have to take a moment to thank the awesome team at the Annapolis Maritime Museum for being such all stars both during the wedding planning process on our big day. My husband and I fell in love with the museum at our first visit with Cindy. It's just a special, super neat space. We loved the more industrial feel and it was definitely the "Annapolis", non-hotel, waterfront location that we were looking for. It was the first venue we looked at the one we compared all other site visits to. Even though the space is relatively compact space, it definitely works for a big event. We had 150 guests plus a band and sit down dinner and were able to make the number work comfortably by breaking down a few tables after dinner to give us some breather room for dancing. The newly tented deck is gorgeous. And despite the fact that it ended up snowing on our wedding day in April(!!!), we were able to bring in space heaters at the last minute and it made the space completely usable all night even with temperatures in the 30s (note: that took three industrial space heaters, rented through Absolute Party Rental who were also great!). I will admit that I was a higher maintenance bride. I think I made at least 10 visits to the museum pre-wedding and that's being conservative. The patience, kindness and partnership extended to me by Cindy and Paige was absolutely amazing. They made me feel like our day was important in the midst of the hundreds of other events and activities going on at the museum. They were such a pleasure to work with and our trust in them was well deserved. When it was all said and done, our wedding day was perfect and flawless and I couldn't thank these ladies enough for that. I would highly recommend the Annapolis Maritime Museum as a fantastic wedding venue and look forward to going to many other events there in the years to come!

Kim B.

Great homeschool field trip experience. Knowledgeable and friendly staff educators!

Enrique Alonso

Great place, friendly staff!!!

Rose Garrett

It was very interesting.

Marion

The museum itself is excellent and the Thomas Point Lighthouse tour is AWESOME!!

Robert Weinstein

A small museum in a great spot on the water, lots of interactives for the young at heart

Powers Drift

Awesome

Adam Pierce

The gentleman working here on the day we went was amazing. He spent so much time talking to us about the ecology of the bay and the history of the area.

Joshua Feeheley

Beautiful place to hold a wedding reception

Ricardo Lobato

Very small museam.

John Bertinatti

Great little museum. Worth the trip if you're in Annapolis.

Caitlin Hall

A wonderful little museum tucked into Eastport. A definite must see! Wonderful staff, docents and gorgeous views

Kenneth Page

Neat small museum specializing in the history of the oyster industry on the Chesapeake Bay. The building is an old oyster canning factory. We had a wonderful docent who had great passion for his subject. Takes about two hours to see and read everything.

Pat Floyd

No air conditioning on July 5th

Huang Harvey

Friendly staff here. Told us some interesting stories about the ships back then. And it's free.

Kenneth Kaye

This small museum is a gem. There is not only the story of oysters as an important economic influence, but the numerous hands on exhibits of the boats used to harvest them. They also have local art displayed. From their dock you will get a great view of Back Creek, the towers on Greenbury Point, and Chesapeake Bay. Unique place to have a picnic.

Lauren M

Very nice museum and venue for events. I often attend their concert series on Thursday nights during the summer. Great view of the Chesapeake Bay. Easy to pull into by boat and enjoy the music on the water.

현서정

Nice place for short- time vacations. Wonderful Explanations of stuff. And most importantly, very friendly staff.

Deb Leonard

Free... very quick self guided tour if you want. There was a gentleman there if you had any questions, and they have a small selection of souvineres for purchase.

Natalie Phillips

Great event space, and interesting exhibits!

Amanda Burgess

This museum was very cute, nice small museum to visit. It seemed to be more about oyster harvesting/canning on the bay than it did about boats in general.

Deborah Sholtes

A special place to learn about life on and in the Chesapeake Bay.

Lance Curran

Great place to take the family

Justin Schoeberlein

Museum brings conservation awareness of the Marine environment to children in a fun way .

Drake Carpenter

Interesting piece of history and can't be the price.

Sovit Tulachan

Small yet insightful!

Barbara Vasquez

Never been there went for a wedding reception small and No Parking

Pam Smith

Avery nice unique venue for a wedding. Parking is limited.

John Williams

Great management great events

Nina McGarry

Nice outdoor venue for weekly neighborhood music listening

Jasmine Jones Hopewell

Nice, small venue. Perfect for a small class field trip. Beautiful scenery right by the water.

Judy Billage

Great venue for a party

Shea K

Well certainly not what we were expecting, but nice if you are interested in the Trumpy family history and oyster harvesting. I think we thought it was going to be more like the US Naval Academy's museum. Just know before you go that it’s focus is oysters. I will say the gentleman who greeted us was so sweet and he is a great painter.

Ramaciandra Carta

Great place, I recommend a visit

Gregory Gaskill

I really enjoyed the slice of Maryland history this museum shared with me. Can't wait until the new boat exhibit is ready.

Shahad Abdulrahman

Great venue for events. Right on the water. Beautiful setting. It does smell like an old building though!

Claudia Gemmer

I loved the trip to the Thomas Point Shoals lighthouse. The docents were very informative and knowledgeable

Rhonda Baldwin

Interesting displays about the oyster industry of the Chesapeake, a beautiful location and a decent lecture hall but very small museum.

Brett Chatfield

We went for the oyster festival and loved it!

Paul Santini

Great trip to the Thomas Point Shoal LIGHTHOUSE. Friendly helpful staff, great displays of Chesapeake Bay marine life

tair swepston

They have a great display of Annapolis' maritime, oyster history. I take my students for their fieldtrips 2 times per year. Wonderful program with dedicated staff and vlounteers.