Taking place annually in early May, the Calvert Marine Museum celebrates Southern Maryland traditions with the Solomons Maritime Festival.

Building on the successful Chesapeake Antique Boat and Marine Engine Show, the festival will takes place on the museum’s scenic waterfront campus. The Antique Boat and Marine Engine Show features exhibits from over 60 collectors of antique and classic boats, and vintage marine outboard and inboard engines.

The Solomons Maritime Festival comes alive with the sights, sounds, and smells of Southern Maryland traditions. Taste traditional foods, learn how to pick crabs and shuck oysters like the pros, enjoy local gospel and old time music, hear world class water fowl calling, see Chesapeake Bay retriever trials in action, watch model boats skim the waters of the boat basin, talk with traditional crafts people as they demonstrate their skills. For the kids, there will be traditional games, races, ice cream making, toy boat building and more.

As part of the Solomons Maritime Festival, the marine engines and vintage boats will be on display in front of the museum and in the parking lot.