With the Annapolis Maritime Museum at the waterfront, one can learn how to harvest oysters or how to climb a workboat. Sailing and boating are the key to Annapolis’s modern identity and can be learned about and explored at the Museum. The Annapolis Maritime Museum is just across from the Naval Academy, sharing the area’s maritime history.

For 300 years, the maritime industry here centered in Eastport. Originally, tobacco was the most lucrative business in Annapolis, which shifted to seafood after the Revolutionary War, centering on fishing, crabbing and oyster shucking. The Museum is the site of the last remaining oyster packing plant in the area, McNasby’s, which today provides the Annapolis area with a state-of-the-art waterfront learning and cultural facility.

Annapolis Maritime Museum, 723 Second Street, Annapolis, MD 21403, Phone: 410-295-0104

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