What's New at the HDG Maritime Museum?

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What’s New at the Museum: CAPITAL CAMPAIGN & IMPROVEMENTS!!!!

The museum’s Board of Directors and staff have been busy developing the Strategic and Long Range Plans to carry the museum successfully through the next five years. Two years ago in December 2006, the museum launched its Capital Campaign to complete the facilities as laid out in the museum’s original master plan. Improvements planned include 1) building out the ground floor to house the museum’s permanent programs - the Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builder’s School and the Susquehanna Flats Environmental Center, 2) completing the museum’s gallery to include a Bay Life Discovery Room, and temporary and permanent exhibits related to the Upper Bay ecology, boat building, and significant historical events, and 3) constructing a second floor to house our Collections Preservation Center and a Maritime Library and Resource Center. The museum has been successful in obtaining both a 2007 State Bond Bill and state and federal grants to help begin to fund the museum’s plans. However all grants, no matter the source, require matching funds from private sources. In fact it is imperative for the museum to raise more monies from the greater community in order to fulfill our goals.

In the last 6 months the museum has been alive with construction activities. In July we began our improvements by building a mezzanine to care and conserve our growing maritime collections. We also began the plans to provide access to all three of the museum’s levels by building an elevator shaft. In order to prepare for the museum gallery improvements, the Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builders School has been temporarily relocated to the Seneca Cannery, while it awaits its permanent home on the ground floor of the museum. This phase of construction activities has just begun. Meanwhile staff and exhibit designers have been developing the plans for both temporary and permanent exhibitions. We hope to have the ground floor and first phase of exhibits completed in the spring.

How Can You Help? In order for the museum to complete its plans, it needs your involvement. From volunteering time, in-kind donations, to capital contributions, we could use your help. After all, our mission states that we are preserving the irreplaceable maritime heritage of the Upper Bay for you as well as for future generations to understand and appreciate the unique history, ecology and quality of life we all know and have come to love. In order to accomplish this we must have the requisite space to carry out the museum’s programs to preserve collections and traditions and educate the public about our past, present and future. Please contact the museum if you can contribute in any way. [Phone: (410) 939-4800; Email: museum@comcast.net ]

WE GRATEFULLY APPRECIATE ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ~ IT REALLY TAKES A COMMUNITY TO STEWARD AND PRESERVE ITS HERITAGE! Special Thanks to the following individuals and organizations who have been indispensable to our progress thus far: Cecil Hill, Allen Fair, Ned Colburn, John Smack and Travis Holman of Vulcan Materials Company, Bill Kirby of Jerry Preston Hauling, Doug Gruber of York Building Products, Steve Goetz of JSG, Heron Harbor LLC, Bill Klunk of Aberdeen Mason Contractors, Red’s House of S&G Concrete Company, Stuart and Robin Shane of Shane Custom Metal Fabricators, and Garrett Pensell of Tidewater Marina.

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ANNUAL GIVING AND MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL

This is the time of year that we are all making many decisions about giving. We decide what to give family and friends, and what to give to charities. We hope you know how important your support to the museum is. Please remember The Havre de Grace Maritime Museum when you are making all of those giving decisions. Remember to renew your membership to ensure you keep all your benefits and special discounts coming. Don't forget to updat your e-mail address with us too. For more details on ways to give, please go to our donations section of this website.

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100 Lafayette Street Havre de Grace MD 21078

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