The museum’s sixth annual Annual Holiday Marketplace will take place at the museum on Friday, November 29 and Saturday, November 30 from 10am-4pm. Jewelry, fiber, books, oyster art, wooden toys and more will be displayed.
The museum shop will be filled with new holiday gifts and decorations including free standing santas, jewelry, paper placemats, pillows, puzzles, hostess towels and cocktail napkins and unusual gifts.
A Christmas ornament of the steamer Potomac, individual tins of white, milk and dark chocolate with photos from the museum’s collection and the “Northern Neck” poster applied to wood and offered as a sign, postcard, journal and magnet will be included in the collection of unique gifts Past year’s popular holiday gifts including a vintage style map of the Chesapeake Bay showing steamboat ports presented on a 72” x30” scarf and small ceramic watermen’s boots, including paints, will return to the Marketplace.
A silent auction including artisans’ work, posters and other fun pieces will run the first two days of the Marketplace and will end at 4pm on Saturday, Nov 30.
The Marketplace will also be open on Saturday December 7, 14 and 21 from 10am-4pm. It takes place at the museum which is located at 156 King Carter Drive, Irvington. Proceeds support the museum.
For further information please call the museum at 438-6888.