On May 25, 2016, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s staff, members of the board, and numerous volunteers participated in the annual “Spring Spruce Up” day on campus.
As part of an overall effort to refresh and restore CBMM’s 18 waterfront acre campus and numerous exhibition buildings, the day’s volunteers gave the At Play on the Bay exhibition building a fresh coat of paint, and touched up the Small Boat Shed by washing the walls and cleaning the historic Chesapeake boats on display there.
The At Play on the Bay building, CBMM’s largest permanent exhibition, is home to objects and stories from the past 100 years of Chesapeake history as the Bay transitioned from a place of work to a place of play. The two-story building, located on Navy Point’s waterfront, offers extensive views of the surrounding landscape and new perspectives of the Miles River, St. Michaels Harbor, and Fogg’s Cove.
The Small Boat Shed is home to skiffs and other small craft that were used around the Chesapeake Bay for fishing, oystering, and crabbing. Most of the displayed boats were locally built, with designs that were suited to available materials, water conditions, boatbuilding techniques, and local preferences. The original 1890’s freight terminal was relocated from Claiborne, Md. and rebuilt on Navy Point in 1933 to be used as a cannery warehouse by the St. Michaels Packing Company. CBMM acquired the building in 1971 and converted it to exhibition space.
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