Their Last Passage:
The Robert H. Burgess Collection
A showcase for the newly acquired Robert Burgess Collection, this exhibit weaves stories of the passions of collecting through highlights of Burgess' treasure-trove of carving, steamboating, sailing ships, and sailmaking objects and images. Visitors can enjoy the most beautiful, most historically significant, and most surprising of Burgess' finds, and experience vicariously the thrill, devotion, and even obsession of the collector's passion.

Marshes: The Disappearing Edens
June 29 - December 16, 2007
A stunningly beautiful collection of 40 exquisitely detailed color photographs by William Burt provide windows into the textures, hues, vistas, and inhabitants of marshes from the Chesapeake Bay to Bear Lake, Utah, and Saskatchewan, Canada. Burt is a professional photographer whose images are seen in Smithsonian, Audubon, National Wildlife, and others, and a companion book to the exhibit has recently been published by Yale University Press. The exhibit is coming to CBMM directly from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and will continue on to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, upon leaving St. Michaels. The exhibit has previously shown at the Connecticut River Museum, Essex, CT. Sponsored in part by grants from the Town Creek Foundation and Verizon Maryland. For related programming, click here.

Chesapeake Icons
October 6, 2007 - June 2008
When you think of the Chesapeake Bay, you picture oysters, skipjacks, lighthouses, blue crabs, and waterfowl. How did these and other familiar images come to symbolize the Chesapeake Bay? Used by artists, writers, and salesmen of all types, these representations of the Bay make up much of the collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. This exhibition will showcase these iconic artifacts-from oyster cans and seafood marketing materials to fine art and models of skipjacks. Family activities will explore how these icons came to be used as well as provide opportunities to create new representations of the Chesapeake.

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