Calvert Marine Museum

The Calvert Marine Museum is a maritime museum located in Solomons, Maryland.

Calvert Marine Museum

Drum Point Light in October 2012
Established	18 October 1970 (1970-10-18)
Location	P.O. Box 9714200 Solomons Island Road, Solomons, MD 20688, USA
Type	marine museum
Accreditation	Calvert County Historical Society
Key holdings	Drum Point Light, Wm. B. Tennison historic boat, J. C. Lore Oyster House, aquarium and the North American river otter habitat
Collections	regional paleontology, estuarine life of the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay, maritime history
Visitors	87589 (2018)[1]
Founder	Daniel Barrett Jr., William Dovel, Alton Kersey, Joseph C. Lore Jr., LeRoy Langley
Director	Sherrod Sturrock
Curator	Carey Crane (exhibits), Richard Dodds (maritime history), Stephen Godfrey (palaeontology), Perry Hampton (estuarine biology)
Website	http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/

The museum has three main themes:[1]

• regional paleontology,
• estuarine life of the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay,
• maritime history.

William B. Tennison historic boat before overhaul (2003)

Among its exhibits are the Drum Point Light, the bugeye Wm. B. Tennison, and the J. C. Lore Oyster House; the latter two are National Historic Landmarks. It also houses artifacts from the old Cedar Point Light, and maintains the Drum Point Light and grounds.

The museum also features several aquatic exhibits including an outdoor habitat for the North American river otter, and indoor aquarium exhibits for the sting ray, skates, the non-native lionfish, and numerous other species native to the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.[2]

From 2018 there is a new exhibit Dinosaurs of Maryland which showcases the diversity and history of Maryland fossils from the age of dinosaurs. The exhibit is a collaboration between the Calvert Marine Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Prince George's County Government, and local fossil collectors.[1]