Maryland Day Events
Friday, march 21, 2025
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ALL EVENTS $1 OR FREE
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Where in Annapolis?
The Official Mobile App Guide to Maryland Day 2025.
This interactive mobile app guide has up-to-the-minute information for all events.
Download it for free in the Apple App store or Google Play store.
Click here: https://whereinannapolis.com/
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Annapolis Maritime Museum and Park - Museum Campus
10am - 3pm Free
723 Second Street, Annapolis, 21403
https://amaritime.org/
Come join our craft table, where you will learn about the wide variety of wildlife found in the Chesapeake Bay and how they impact life in Annapolis. Create your own creature from reusable materials to take home with you.​​
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Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks
Sunrise to Sunset Free
Explore Anne Arundel County's Natural and Cultural Heritage Parks and Sites during the Maryland Day Celebration weekend.
Historic Parks and Heritage sites:
Hancock’s Resolution
Historic Linthicum Walks
Historic London Town and Gardens
Farmhouse Museum at Kinder Farm Park
Hot Sox Field
Natural areas:
Bacon Ridge Natural Area
Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary
Magothy Greenway Natural Area
Patuxent Oxbow Area
https://www.aacounty.org/recreation-parks/parks/natural-cultural-areas
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Banneker - Douglass - Tubman Museum
10 am - 4 pm Free
84 Franklin Street, Annapolis MD 21401
https://bdmuseum.maryland.gov/
The museum dedicated to the history and culture of African Americans, notably Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
And in the main gallery join BDTM for a dive into the powerful work of artist Jabari Jefferson as he brings Maryland's Black history to life through transformed discarded materials and digital technology in an exhibit titled 'Sacred Spaces'.
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Blacks of the Chesapeake
Virtual presentation
​https://blacksofthechesapeake.wildapricot.org/
Join us as we honor the incredible contributions of Black Watermen and Women of the Chesapeaks Bay's maritime and seafood processing industries. Our virtual experience will feature a series of videos and posts that highlight their vital role in shaping our history and communities. We will also highlight our late founder and CEO, Vincent Leggett, Admiral of the Chesapeake, and demonstrate how his vision continues through us as we advance the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation forward.
Event link here: Celebrate Black Watermen & Women this Maryland Day Weekend! | Facebook
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Chase Home - Chase-Lloyd House
11 am - 5 pm Free
22 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21401
Tours of this historic home and hear the story of the Chase Home's dependency (kitchen annex) as well has the Slave History, architecture and archeology. Learn about the life of Samuel Chase and the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette's final tour when he visited the Chase Home on December 19th, 1824.
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​​Historic Annapolis - Waterfront Warehouse
10am - 5pm Free
Waterfront Warehouse – 4 Pinkney Street Annapolis, MD 21401
https://www.annapolis.org/about-us/properties/
Visit a rare surviving example of a small Annapolis waterfront warehouse from the 18th century. Today
you’ll discover the model of our city, circa the late 18th century, featuring a birds-eye view of the historic
landscape.
Historic Annapolis - William Paca Garden
10am - 5pm $1 Admission
William Paca Garden, 186 Prince George Street Annapolis, MD 21401
https://www.annapolis.org/contact/william-paca-garden/
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Visit the William Paca Garden and explore a secret oasis of natural beauty nestled in the heart of Annapolis. This colonial garden, hidden behind the William Paca House, has been reconstructed to its original design featuring a terraced landscape with formal parterres, naturalistic wilderness, and practical kitchen and medicinal gardens.
Historic London Town and Gardens
10am - 4pm Free
839 Londontown Road, Edgewater MD 21037
www.historiclondontown.org/marylandday
Immerse yourself in the past and take in the spring splendor of our gardens this Maryland Day weekend at Historic London Town & Gardens. Join in tours to hear stories about the colonial port town and learn about the variety of plants that grow in our 10-acre woodland gardens. Meet with living history interpreters dressed in colonial clothing, explore our exhibit space and participate in family friendly activities.
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Maryland Federation of Art
11 am - 5 pm Free
18 State Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401
MFA is offering 10% off any artwork by a Maryland artist. Come to Circle Gallery to see the current exhibition. For online purchases, please call Circle Gallery at 410-268-4566 and we will process the sale over the phone to give you’re the discount.
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Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
Friday @ 2 pm - 3 pm tour the Maryland State House 3 - 6 Open house Free
MDCVEF Office, 30 West St Ste C, Annapolis, MD 21401
Come to the MDLCVEF office at 30 West Street and walk to the Maryland State House for a guided tour and open house from 3 - 6 pm afterward at the at the MDLCVEF office.
Registration suggested: https://www.marylandconservation.org/event/celebrate-maryland-day
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Maryland State House
8:30am - 5pm Free
100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdstatehouse/html/home.html
Visit the oldest state capitol in continuous legislative use. With many exhibits, memorials, historic documents related to the Continental Congress and notable Americans all possible through the Maryland State Archives
Pride of Baltimore II
2 pm UPDATE! 3 pm to 7 pm Free
Susan Campbell Park at Annapolis City Dock
pride2.org
At 2 pm Pride ll will arrive off Annapolis with a cannon salute!
​​Enjoy deck tours and learn of the rich maritime history of the Baltimore privateer vessels and their role in the War of 1812.
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St. John's College - in the Mitchell Museum
60 College Avenue, Annapolis MD 21401
(event list below)
​Nature's ReadyMades Exhibit
2:30 - 7:30 Free
​Is there art in nature? Nature's Readymades presents an extraordinary selection of gongshi (scholars’ rocks or viewing stones) drawn from the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, D.C. Carved by nature and relished by Chinese literati as early as the Tang dynasty (7th c.), these paradoxical objects are worlds in miniature, presenting the vital energy of the universe in a hardened, static form.
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Oracle Hysterical Concert - featuring composer Majel Connery - McDowell Great Hall at St. John's College
7:30 pm - Free
Oracle Hysterical in Concert - Part band, part book club, Oracle Hysterical transforms great books into concert experiences. The event features performer-composers Majel Connery (vocals, keys), Elliot Cole (vocals, keys) and twin brothers Doug and Brad Balliett (viola da gamba and bassoon).
​Majel Connery is a composer, vocalist and roving musicologist combining the beauty of Classical music with the power of modern technology. Her voice has been called "superb" by the New York Times and her compositions "thoroughly Schubertian" by the Wall Street Journal. Connery’s environmental compositions have been performed around the world, including her own recent premiere of Elderflora at Seattle Symphony/Octave 9, and the 2023-24 tour of “The Rivers are our Brothers” by Grammy-winning choir Chanticleer. An educator working at the intersection of arts and scholarship, Connery has created incubator classrooms and productions with artists like Caroline Shaw and Ken Ueno on campuses like Stanford, UC Berkeley, Wellesley, and Princeton. In radio, Connery hosts the NPR/CapRadio podcast A Music of Their Own and Reverberations with New Amsterdam Records. She holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Chicago and an A.B. in music from Princeton.
https://events.sjc.edu/event/Oracle-Hysterical-in-concert
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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center - SERC
647 Contees Wharf Road Edgewater, MD 21037
8 am - 4:30 pm Free
https://serc.si.edu/
​Get in to Maryland Day weekend and get out into nature by hiking SERC’s multiple miles of woodland trails, including along the Rhode River and Muddy Creek. Explore the trails at SERC all three days 8-4:30!
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Unity Gardens
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
All day - Free at participating sites with a Unity Garden sign!
This event occurs all over Annapolis and Anne Arundel County
Enjoy participating in the Unity Gardens, 'I Spy' Scavenger Hunt Photo Contest. Tag your Maryland Day Facebook photos with UNITY GARDENS and your Maryland Day location.
Then make sure a 'Unity Gardens' yard sign is in the picture. On Instagram tag with #NativesofAnneArundel.
The winner of the contest will receive 4 tickets for an Annapolis Maritime Cruise aboard the Wilma Lee skipjack.
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MD DAY locations include:
Michael E Busch Annapolis Library - AACPL
AnnapolisMaritimeMuseum
Captain Avery Museum
Chase Lloyd Home
Chesapeake Children's Museum
Galesville Heritage Society
Hancock's Resolution
Historic Baldwin Hall
Historic London Town and Gardens
Jug Bay Wetlands​​
*Unity Gardens is an Anne Arundel County nonprofit organization that supports the building of community partnerships through the creation of greening projects, environmental enhancements and education. Check out some of the many gardens with plants native to Maryland!
See their event here on Facebook:
https://facebook.com/events/s/i-spy-a-unity-gardens-sign-mar/653167427107431/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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Visit Annapolis and Anne Arundel County - Visitors Center AND City Dock Kiosk
10 am - 5 pm Free
26 West Street, and Annapolis City Dock
Make our Visitors Center on West Street or our Visitor Information Kiosk at City Dock your first stop for everything you need to know about the events happening throughout Annapolis and Anne Arundel County during Maryland Day Weekend. Our trained volunteer information specialists can answer your questions, make recommendations, provide you with Maryland Day literature, and help map out an itinerary that's perfect for you!
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