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Enjoy live music, dancing, hors d'oeuvres, and spirits to celebrate the holiday season. Participate in the optional wine pull fundraiser to take home a festively decorated surprise bottle of wine. All money raised goes towards museum operations and our community-based programs. What is a wine pull? Guests pay $20 to select a mystery bottle of […]
Families are invited to the mansion for a morning of holiday stories and crafts as celebrated in the Hammond-Harwood House. Children will enjoy story-time in the holiday-décor of our elegant ballroom. After stories, children will be invited to our activity classroom to create holiday decorations and learn some early Christmas traditions. Tickets are required for […]
Celebrate the season with a holiday tour of the William Paca House! Bring family and friends to enjoy the elegant decorations, learn about 18th century Maryland holiday traditions, and hear stories of Christmases past. This guided, one-hour candlelit tour highlights how the Paca household prepared for their holiday guests. The historic home is ready to […]
Welcome the holidays with a walking tour of Annapolis by Watermark. Stroll through Maryland’s state capital, trimmed in greenery, with your period-attired guide. Hear holiday traditions of times past as you walk by colonial mansions, Victorian homes, and quaint shops. The Hammond-Harwood House is the final stop on your tour. There, enjoy authentic, colonial, holiday […]
Join us for the Rising Sun Inn’s Historic Candlelight Holiday Tour on Saturday, December 9, 2023, at the Rising Sun Inn located at 1090 General’s Highway, Crownsville. Tours will be conducted between 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., with the last tours starting at 8:30 p.m. The Rising Sun Inn, with a history spanning four centuries, […]
Explore the Hammond-Harwood House’s collection of nine elaborate clocks from the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. The tour begins with an in-depth history of timekeeping from sundials to Chinese water clocks. The invention of the pendulum in the 17th century modernized horological devices and a rising artisan class created clocks for elite and middle-class […]
Celebrate the season with a holiday tour of the William Paca House! Bring family and friends to enjoy the elegant decorations, learn about 18th century Maryland holiday traditions, and hear stories of Christmases past. This guided, one-hour candlelit tour highlights how the Paca household prepared for their holiday guests. The historic home is ready to […]
The global dimensions of the American Revolution are nowhere more evident than in India. The subcontinent had long been the target of British land grabs, and Indian rulers tried to use the distraction of American secession to push Britain out of Asia entirely. Consider Haidar Ali, the ruler of Mysore. He swung into action in […]
Do you know about one of Maryland's most precious natural wonders? "It starts as a whisper near the four corners of Maryland, where Montgomery, Frederick, Howard and Carroll counties converge. It's little more than a meandering brook winding its way through farmland, but when it completes its 110-mile journey to Southern Maryland, the Patuxent River […]
Annapolis’s favorite holiday activity makes its return for the 2023 holiday season! On weekends throughout December, Miss Anne will be adorned with reindeer spirit for an intimate 45-minute “sleigh ride” including hot cocoa, holiday music, and good cheer. Captain Santa is at the helm during this festive evening cruise on Spa Creek. Blankets will be […]
Celebrate the season with a holiday tour of the William Paca House! Bring family and friends to enjoy the elegant decorations, learn about 18th century Maryland holiday traditions, and hear stories of Christmases past. This guided, one-hour candlelit tour highlights how the Paca household prepared for their holiday guests. The historic home is ready to […]
Join us for a candlelight tour to the ca. 1760 William Brown House as we learn about how 18th century residents celebrated winter holidays, followed by glasses of warm chocolate port and other "greatest hits" drinks from the year. Afterward, you'll have time to play games, make pomanders, and other festivities. Tickets are $30 for […]