The Annapolis Maritime Museum is dedicated to promoting and preserving the maritime heritage of the entire Annapolis region.
They do all this from a waterside campus on the Back Creek shoreline. This location gives you a picturesque view of the Chesapeake Bay and Annapolis Harbor that's unequaled to any. The site of the Museum campus is also the location of the McNasby's Oyster Packing Company, which happens to be the only remaining oyster packing plant in Annapolis.
The McNasby building suffered severe hurricane damage in 2003, but the Board of Directors of the Museum along with volunteers are raising funds to restore it. Their goal is to create the Bay Experience Center, which will be an interactive facility like they could only imagine. The Annapolis Maritime Museum wants to make a place that can be enjoyed by both adults and youth, while showing them the great heritage provided in Annapolis. Individuals of all ages can come here to learn about the town and its history.
The Museum has also spent time and money to restore the Barge House, the 650-square foot one-room schoolhouse, which was also destroyed in the hurricane. Right now, the Barge is used for concerts, lectures, meetings and children's activities, but is the starting point for the tours of the Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse. This lighthouse is the most well-known landmark symbolic of the upper Chesapeake Bay. The whole goal of the Annapolis Maritime Museum is to protect, preserve and promote the maritime heritage of Annapolis.
