Are you interested in exploring Foods and Recipes of the past? Would you like to learn historically accurate cooking techniques? Does cooking on an open fire appeal to you? ​ Then sign up today for this Hands-On Workshop and learn how to cook like our ancestors! Recreate recipes from 17th, 18th and 19th century sources. Taste everything you make in class. Class size is limited so sign up early. $185 per participant (includes all materials) Pre-registration required. Space is limited. Ages 16+

This month we'll join the northward migration of Maryland's songbirds. Join us as we explore their journeys, lives, and habitats through observations and games. ​ $8 for member children ages 6-12 (become one today!​) $10 for non-member children ages 6-12

This month we'll join the northward migration of Maryland's songbirds. Join us as we explore their journeys, lives, and habitats through observations and games. ​ $8 for member children ages 6-12 (become one today!​) $10 for non-member children ages 6-12

Exhibition curator John Verdi will provide insights on visionary and outsider artists in his lecture “Art Without Irony.”

In this family-friendly activity, participants will join a tour of the house and learn how animals symbolize different things in paintings, chairs, and everyday objects. Children will go on an Easter egg hunt in the garden of the Hammond-Harwood House and then paint the wooden eggs they find. Space is limited (10 children), for reservations, please call 410-263-4683×10 or email [email protected]

Join us on select Tuesday mornings for storytime and fun activities in the William Paca Garden, a secret treasure in the Historic District of Annapolis. Each program is designed for little ones (3-7 years) with a book reading, song, craft/art project, and free time in the garden. This Week's Book: Night Catch Military families often deal with a parent who may deploy or receive an assignment taking them away from their families. This book shares the story of a soldier who helps his son with a creative way to deal with an upcoming...

Actor, writer, and historian, Annapolis' own, Chris Haley, will read poems by renowned poets such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phyllis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay and Audre Lourde.  African American literature has existed and flourished throughout our nation's history. In spite of living through often oppressive and racially violent times, people of color penned their stories of love, loss, joy and pain, and the challenge and fight for equality. Haley, a nephew of famed author Alex Haley, will deliver poems which exemplify these themes as penned by some of America's...

Join members of the Mitchell Gallery Book Club for a discussion of Welcome to Marwencol by Mark Hogancamp and Chris Shellen, led by curator John Verdi. Free. Registration required. Contact the gallery for book purchase. Location to be announced.

Join us for a tour of Annapolis’s historic district, where early American painter Charles Willson Peale’s world has been preserved. The tour starts at the Old Treasury Building on the grounds of the Capitol.  Participants will also receive a half-price admission to the Hammond-Harwood House, which includes the special exhibition ”Ambition: Charles Willson Peale in Annapolis” featuring Peale’s Annapolis commissions chronologically with twenty-five portraits, including nine loans.

Join us on select Tuesday mornings for storytime and fun activities in the William Paca Garden, a secret treasure in the Historic District of Annapolis. Each program is designed for little ones (3-7 years) with a book reading, song, craft/art project, and free time in the garden. This Week's Book: Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn “Lola, Lola how extraordinary, how does your garden grow? With flower seeds and shells and beads and happy friends all in a row!” After Lola reads a book of garden poems, she desires to create her very...