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  2. Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is located in St. Michaels, Maryland, United States and is home to a collection of Chesapeake Bay artifacts, exhibitions, and vessels. This 18-acre (73,000 m 2) interactive museum was founded in 1965 on Navy Point, once a site of seafood packing houses, docks, and work boats.

  3. Virginia Aquarium - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.virginiaaquarium.com. The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, formerly known as the Virginia Marine Science Museum, is an aquarium and marine science museum located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, just south of Rudee Inlet. The exhibits at the museum are contained in over 800,000 US gallons (3,028,000 L) of fresh and saltwater ...

  4. List of museums in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Steamboat Era Museum: Irvington: Lancaster: Chesapeake Bay: Maritime: website, history of the steamboat era on the Chesapeake Bay from 1813 until 1937 Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Chantilly: Fairfax: Northern: Aerospace: Part of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - located at Washington Dulles International Airport: St. James' House ...

  5. Virginia Institute of Marine Science - Wikipedia

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    The William J. Hargis, Jr. Library with 88,000 marine science volumes. Visitor Center with aquaria and life-sized models shows how VIMS research benefits Chesapeake Bay and the ocean. Nunnally Ichthyology Collection [7] features more than 350,000 specimens in 316 fish families from Chesapeake Bay and surrounding waters.

  6. List of maritime museums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Morro Bay, California: Morro Bay Maritime Museum: California: Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Maritime Museum: Y California: Oxnard: Channel Islands (Ventura County) Maritime Museum: California: Port Hueneme: US Navy SeaBee Museum: California: Richmond: Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site: California: Samoa: Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum ...

  7. Tilghman Watermen's Museum - Wikipedia

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    The idea of creating a museum specific to Tilghman Island arose in 2007, when a group of residents became involved in an effort to preserve the Kathryn, a Chesapeake bay skipjack. [7] One result of this work was an increased awareness of the historical record of the local area.

  8. Chesapeake Bay - Wikipedia

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    The Chesapeake Bay (/ ˈtʃɛsəpiːk / CHESS-ə-peek) is the largest estuary in the United States. The Bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula, including parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and the state of Delaware.

  9. Virginia Living Museum - Wikipedia

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    Two-story indoor exhibit of a cypress swamp at the museum. The main building features animals living in several exhibits that depict the many environments of Virginia, including the coastal plain, a 30,000 US gallons (110,000 L) Chesapeake Bay exhibit, the Piedmont, an Appalachian Mountain cove, a cypress swamp, and underground, as well as a gallery of nocturnal life.