HOURS VISITOR SERVICES Open daily Group Tickets: For CALVERT 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. groups of 10 or more, Closed New Year’s Day, call 410-326-2042 ext. Thanksgiving Day, & 41 between 8:30 a.m. MARINE Christmas Day and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday to MUSEUM ADMISSION schedule a visit at a special rate. Tickets purchased valid all day. We accept Facility Rental: The cash, VISA, MasterCard, museum is available Discover, and traveler’s after hours for special checks. Call 410-326- EXPERIENCE events, meetings, IT’S A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE YOU’LL NEVER FORGET 2042 for recorded and receptions. For The Calvert Marine Museum is a public, non-profit, information or visit Explore how our prehistoric past, natural DISCOVERY ROOM BEACONS ON THE BAY information and rates, educational, regionally oriented museum. Our mission our website at www. call 410-326-2042, ext. environments, and maritime heritage come Our Discovery Room encourages children of all The Drum Point Lighthouse is a cottage-style, is to collect, preserve, research, and interpret the calvertmarinemuseum. 17. ages to dig for real fossils, climb a lighthouse, hoist screwpile lighthouse that dates from 1883. cultural and natural history of Southern Maryland. We com. together to tell a unique story of the Chesapeake Relocated to the museum site in 1975, it is the are dedicated to the presentation of our three themes: a sail in our seaworthy skiff, meet amphibians Handicap Access: Bay. Come touch twenty-million-year-old fossils only fully furnished lighthouse of this style on regional paleontology, estuarine life of the tidal Patuxent PARKING and reptiles in our highlight habitats, and touch a The museum is fully horseshoe crab, diamondback terrapin, or sea star the bay. Visitors can climb to the lantern room to River and adjacent Chesapeake Bay, and maritime history The museum offers taken from Calvert Cliffs; discover the ever changing accessible, with the examine the fourth order Fresnel lens and enjoy a of these waters. ample free parking in our touchtank. exception of the world of the Chesapeake Bay; learn how humans on site and overflow beautiful view of Back Creek. historic lighthouses. parking for special Wheelchairs and worked its waters for survival and profit, changing events. Built in 1828, the Cove Point Lighthouse is strollers are available at and shaping the landscape over time. Maryland’s oldest continuously operating no charge. Just ask at lighthouse. Located 10 minutes from the main MUSEUM STORE the admissions desk. campus, it guides ships up the bay. Find unique gifts in Cover photo by Tim Reese our Museum Store. No Photos courtesy of John admission required. For Douglass, CMM Staff/ information call 410- Volunteers 326-2750. Simply Extraordinary www.calvertmarinemuseum.com RIVER TO BAY: GET IN ON THE ACTION REFLECTIONS AND CONNECTIONS BECOME A MEMBER Enjoy unlimited free admission for one year, store Celebrate the amazing diversity of life found in our discounts, and a variety of other member benefits. local waterways. Move from the ‘Deep Open Waters’ Join online at www.calvertmarinemuseum.com or to the ‘Sheltering Shallows’ to the ‘Tidal Tributaries’ call 410-326-2042 ext. 16 for more information. and meet the marine animals that live there. Chain dogfish, sea horses, catfish, jellyfish, an octopus, and the beautiful, but highly invasive lionfish will entice MARITIME PATUXENT: WATER AND WATERMEN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES and delight you. A RIVER AND ITS PEOPLE We offer programs for all ages, from Little The J.C. Lore Oyster House, built in 1934, tells the Minnows to Road Scholar programs for seniors. For Explore the story of people who settled along the story of oysters and the people who made their CLUES IN THE CLIFFS information on outreach, school field trips, field Patuxent River. Learn about the colonial planters living by harvesting, processing, and distributing experiences, summer camps, and distance learning, COME VISIT Experience the ancient Miocene environment who packed their tobacco for shipment by water. them around the world. Open May through October. visit the website or call 410-326-2042 ext. 41. that existed in this area eight to 20 million Trace the Patuxent River route used by the British The Calvert Marine Museum years ago. See the recreated shark skeleton of to burn the nation’s capital during the War of 1812. CHESAPEAKE WORKBOATS P.O. Box 97 megalodon, a 37.5’ super predator. Move your Follow the entrepreneurs, watermen, packing 14200 Solomons Island Road Take a leisurely cruise up the Patuxent River on the VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES finger along the geologic time line to watch house workers, and craftsmen as they reshaped Solomons, Maryland 20688 Wm. B. Tennison, a log-built Bugeye built in 1899. The museum depends on over 370 active continents crash together and split apart over the economy of this region through the seafood 410-326-2042 FAX 410-326-6691 Scheduled cruises run Wednesday – Sunday, May volunteers who work behind-the-scenes, with the the millennia. See hundreds of fossils from and shipbuilding trades. Step up to a Cruis-Along MD Relay for Impaired Hearing or Speech: through October. Or sign up for a summer public animals, as docents and interpreters, assisting in the famous Calvert Cliffs and learn what these powerboat and discover how the Patuxent has Statewide Toll Free 1-800-735-2258 sail aboard the skipjack, Dee of St. Mary’s, also the store, and every other facet of museum life. ancient clues can teach us about our prehistoric become a river of recreation. www.calvertmarinemuseum.com used in the museum’s Chesapeake Bay Field Lab Call 410-326-2042 ext. 19 to learn how you can get past. educational programs. involved today. DIRECTIONS JOIN A CLUB From Washington’s Capital Beltway (I-495), take Route 4 East into Calvert County. It’s a great way to meet new people who share your From the Baltimore Beltway (I-695), take I-97 interests. Check out our South/665, to Route 2 South into Calvert County. website for the many clubs Calvert Marine Museum is located on Solomons the museum sponsors for Island Road South in historic Solomons, members. Maryland.