Maritime Museum Educational Programs

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The Maritime Museum offers a variety of tours and outreach programs, which can be tailored to your group, its needs, interests, and curriculum. Would you like to organize a group tour? Then please call us at (410) 939-4800 and plan a memorable and educational visit to historic Havre de Grace. We can even bring a program to you; just let us know your needs.

Our community outreach program, also known as the Road Show, was very active this past festival season. The Maritime Museum participated in several summer shows, demonstrating boatbuilding skills and increasing community awareness of the Maritime Museum.

During summer, Maritime Museum staff members are often invited to provide museum outreach educational programs for summer camp groups. We provide hands-on programs on Archaeology, Native Americans, Fishing, and Boat Building. In the past few months, we have also given lectures on maritime history to several community organizations.

Susquehanna Flats Environmental Center

The Susquehanna Flats are the shallow waters along the Chesapeake Bay shoreline that support the lush grass beds that provide food and habitat to fish, crabs, oysters, and waterfowl. The Museum, with its participants, explores the historical background and natural diversity of the Chesapeake as well as the responsibilities and challenges of living by and using its rich environmental resources.

The Maritime Museum has undertaken a long-term project to restore the grounds that the museum leases from the City of Havre de Grace. Specifically, we are eradicating invasive plant species which are choking the landscape and replacing them with native plant species to the shorelines of the Chesapeake Bay. This will encourage and provide better habitat to the numerous indigenous wildlife.

Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builders School

• Basic Wooden Boat Building
• Antique Canoe Repair & Restoration
• Model Ship Building
• Wooden Boat Repair & Restoration

The school preserves the tradition of wooden boat building by teaching this essential maritime skill to apprentices in weekly class sessions. The cooperative agreement between Harford Community College, the Havre de Grace Maritime Museum, and the Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builders supports this goal. The school is for both young and old. A special Teen Boatbuilding School, held in the summer, tutors twelve teens through building their own canoes in one week!

Other students are all very interested amateurs who are looking for building instruction, so they can build their own craft. Generally, there are about 40 men and women working on building and repairing wooden boats and models every Tuesday evening from 7-9 p.m.

Havre de Grace Maritime Museum Maryland
100 Lafayette Street Havre de Grace MD 21078

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