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  • The museum is closed for the season. Come visit us in the spring when we reopen with a new exhibit.

    Please call 410-886-1190 or 410-886-2930 for information.

  • Spring on Tilghman

  • Featured Artist…Bill Cummings

    Bill Cummings was a Tilghman native whose art recalls a time lost on Tilghman. Painting from only his memory, his images show us a Tilghman many of us have never seen. While we highlight six of his prints below, 20 prints are available for sale in our Shop. His self written biography… I was born […]

"Tilghman is just a place that gets up
and goes to work" - Gary Fairbank

From the "Growing up on Tilghman" DVD
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Tilghman Island's men and women

Earning a living on the water.

Watermen images

Get a taste of the island’s history

Explore the island’s proud history.

Learn About Tilghman

Explore the museum's new home

See the history of the Lee House

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Put Thursday, March 16thon your calendar!That’s when Lance Morris and Jeff McGuiness will bring to life the eleven years Frederick Douglass lived in bondage in Talbot County and his triumphant return to the county in the closing decades of his life. Their program features Morris’s moving oratory using the words of Frederick Douglass against the backdrop of stunning imageryfrom McGuiness’s 284-page photographic essay, Bear Me Into Freedom: The Talbot County of Frederick Douglass,published by St. Michaels Museum.  Please join us at 6:30 PM for coffee and cookies at the Sherwood Church Hall. The program will begin promptly at 7:00 PM.

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