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The Calvert Marine Museum exhibits explore a wide range of topics such as river transportation, trade, shipping, boatbuilding, commercial fishing, military engagements, community life, and recreation. This permanent exhibit tells the story of human activity along the Patuxent River from the seventeenth-century colonial period to present. Featured are over five hundred artifacts and photographs including a twenty-eight-foot three-log canoe, a tobacco press used to pack tobacco for shipment, a steam engine, an underwater mine and torpedo from World war II era testing in the river, and a 1956 Cruise-Along power boat built at the M. M. Davis & Son Shipyard in Solomons. Also on display are tools used in the shipbuilding trades, scale models of steam and sail vessels, gear for harvesting and processing seafood, and many documents, maps, photographs, and paintings.
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