Family Holiday Weekend at the Steamboat Era Museum

The Steamboat Era Museum is hosting special activities for children and families during the July Fourth Holiday Weekend. On Thursday, June 29, the museum will offer extended hours for a special viewing of the new exhibit Children’s Lives Around the Northern Neck: 1880’s to 1930’s. Visitors will learn about what

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Friday Morning Kids Activities Begin at the Steamboat Era Museum

Friday morning children’s activities will begin June 24 at the Steamboat Era Museum. Kids from 4-12, accompanied by an adult, will learn about the history of how steamboats impacted the communities around the Chesapeake Bay. They will have fun imagining what being a child over a century ago was like.

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Kids make steamboats at the Steamboat Era Museum

18 kids from Chesapeake Academy, Northern Neck YMCA and museum visitors make a wood steamboat as part of the regularly scheduled Friday morning kids’ activities at the museum. For more information please call. 438-6888

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Friday Morning Kids’ Activites Begin June 28 at the Steamboat Era Museum

On Friday mornings a special children’s program is open to children age 4 and up accompanied with an adult. The activities include a presentation about the Steamboat Era, a tour of the museum and, new this year, a look into the Potomac Pilothouse! Children make a steamboat and then test

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