The Museum is closed for the season from November 2019 until Saturday May 2, 2020.

The Museum will have special open hours Saturday and Sunday during Christmas in St. Michaels Weekend December 14-15, 2019.

Walking Tours

The following Walking Tours can be arranged by appointment during November 2019. The following dates and type of tours are available by reservation:
Frederick Douglass Walking Tour: Saturdays 11/2, 11/16, 11/30.
Historic St Michaels Walking Tour: Saturdays 11/9 and 11/23

The tours begin at the St Michaels Museum. 201 E Chestnut St at 10:00. No tours will be scheduled if there are no reservations.

Special tours may be arranged November 2019 to May 2020 if tour guides are available.

For tour reservations call Kate at 410-745-4323, or by email at [email protected].

Information about our tours and the museum can be seen by visiting our website: www.stmichaelsmuseum.org.

St. Michaels Museum
Walking Tours
Saturday, August 3 & 17 at 10:00 am
“Frederic Douglass, as a Slave, in St. Michaels 1833-36”

This tour is given as a 90-minute walking tour on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. The tour gives a view of the early life of St. Michaels’ most famous 19th century resident and the most important African American Abolitionist in the Civil War. The cost for the tours is $10 adults, $5 youths (6-17). St. Michaels Museum is located at 201 E. Chestnut St, St. Michaels, MD. For information call 410 745-9561 or check the website at: www.stmichaelsmuseum.org

St. Michaels Museum
Walking Tours
Saturday, August 10 & 24 at 10:00 am
“Historic St. Michaels: its People, Places and Happenings”

This tour is given as a 90-minute walking tour on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays. It highlights St. Michaels during the 19th Century. Stories will be told by viewing many restored structures from that era and describing lives of famous and typical residents of these times including Frederic Douglass. The cost for the tours is $10 adults, $5 youths (6-17). St. Michaels Museum is located at 201 E. Chestnut St, St. Michaels, MD. For information call 410 745-9561 or check the website at: www.stmichaelsmuseum.org.

Our new exhibit about Historic St Mary’s Square is open. St Mary’s Square has a long history covering two hundred and forty-one years. It was the center of a 1778 town plan put together by English factor James Braddock during the American Revolution. Braddock’s plan featured the Square surrounded by twenty lots, a market house and two entrances gates, a north gate and south gate. It was the center of the early town with St. Michaels 1^st Methodist church, Sardis Chapel, and schools including the 1880 High School, now the location of St Michaels Museum.We are located at 201 E. Chestnut St, on historic St. Mary’s Square, in St Michaels where there is usually plenty of street parking. The St. Michaels Museum is open Fridays from 1-4, Saturdays 10-4, Sundays 1-4. For more information call 410-745-9561 or check the website at www.stmichaelsmuseum.org.

St. Michaels Museum
Walking Tours
Saturday, July 6 & 20th at 10:00 am
“Frederic Douglass, as a Slave, in St. Michaels 1833-36”

This tour is given as a 90-minute walking tour on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. The tour gives a view of the early life of St. Michaels’ most famous 19th century resident and the most important African American Abolitionist in the Civil War. The cost for the tours is $10 adults, $5 youths (6-17). St. Michaels Museum is located at 201 E. Chestnut St, St. Michaels, MD. For information call 410 745-9561 or check the website at: www.stmichaelsmuseum.org

St. Michaels Museum
Walking Tours
Saturday, July 13th& 27th at 10:00 am
“Historic St. Michaels: its People, Places and Happenings”

This tour is given as a 90-minute walking tour on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays. It highlights St. Michaels during the 19th Century. Stories will be told by viewing many restored structures from that era and describing lives of famous and typical residents of these times including Frederic Douglass. The cost for the tours is $10 adults, $5 youths (6-17). St. Michaels Museum is located at 201 E. Chestnut St, St. Michaels, MD. For information call 410 745-9561 or check the website at: www.stmichaelsmuseum.org.

St Michaels Museum will sponsor its traditional Independence Day Celebration at the Museum on the corner of East Chestnut Street and St. Mary’s Square.  Events will start at 10 AM with a Children’s Parade.  Children and parents should arrive at 9:30 AM. We encourage festively dressed participants with decorated bicycles, tricycles, wagons and pets. Uncle Sam will lead the parade followed by the St. Michaels Fire Dept.’s Antique Fire Engine, Maggie. The emphasis is having a good time and showing off for your parents, grandparents, neighbors and friends.  The parade starts at St. Michaels Museum and the route is East Chestnut west to Talbot, Talbot north to Willow (just past Christ Church), Willow to Church, Church to Mulberry, Mulberry to St Mary’s Square and back to St. Michaels Museum.  There will be no floats or vehicles other than the fire departments antique fire truck ‘Maggie’ leading the parade.It is a special event for children.

At 11AM the Traditional Program will begin with Boy Scout Troup 741 raising the flag and leading a Pledge of Allegiance at the Flag Pole in front of the Museum.  A formal program will follow on the new Teetotum Porch with a benediction, patriotic and folk songs by the Royal Oak Musicians, and featured speaker CBMM Curator Pete Lesher will speak on “All Created Equal”. Music will be provided by the Royal Oaks Musicians.  Following the program, the magician John Dodge will perform for everyone.  The Phillips Wharf Fish Mobile will be available to entertain and educate children. St Michaels Museum will be open with free admission. Refreshments will be available from the St. Michaels Fire

Department. St. Michaels Museum 201 E. Chestnut St, St. Michaels, MD 21663, www.stmichaelsmuseum.org.

Plan a visit to St. Michaels Museum to learn about the history of St. Michaels including the War of 1812, the life of Frederick Douglass when he lived in the town as a slave, and the commercial development of this busy town. In June a new exhibit about Historic St. Mary’s Square will open. St. Mary’s Square has a long history covering two hundred and forty years. It was the center of a 1778 town plan put together by English factor James Braddock during the American Revolution. Braddock’s plan featured the Square surrounded by twenty lots, a market house and two gates, north and south. It was the center of the early town and featured over the years Sadis Chapel, the early St Luke’s Church, several schools both public and private, and now the location of St Michaels Museum.

In addition to the new exhibit the museum has the following schedule of Walking Tours:

Docent-led walking tours – Saturdays from May through October 26, 2019

The walking tour of the town begins at the museum at 10:00, $10 adults, $5 youths (6-17), private tours for $50 Minimum. Other days and times can be arranged by calling Kate Fones at 410-745-4323.

“Frederick Douglass, as a Slave, in St. Michaels 1833-36”, First and Third Saturdays of Each Month

This tour is given as a 90-minute walking tour. The tour gives a view of the early life of St. Michaels’ most famous 19th century resident and the most important African American Abolitionist in the Civil War.

“Historic St. Michaels: its People, Places and Happenings”, Second and Fourth Saturdays of each Month

This tour is given as a 90-minute walking tour. It highlights St. Michaels during the 19 th Century. Stories will be told by viewing many restored structures from that era and describing life of famous and typical residents of these times including Frederick Douglass. The St. Michaels Museum is open Fridays from 1-4, Saturdays 10-4, Sundays 1-4. More information is available at https://stmichaelsmuseum.org/.

“Historic St. Michaels: its People, Places and Happenings”

This tour is given as a 90-minute walking tour on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays. It highlights St. Michaels during the 19 th Century. Stories will be told by viewing many restored structures from that era and describing lives of famous and typical residents of these times including
Frederic Douglass. The cost for the tours is $10 adults, $5 youths (6-17). St. Michaels Museum is located at 201 E. Chestnut St, St. Michaels, MD. For information call 410 745-9561 or check the website at: www.stmichaelsmuseum.org.