The Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons Island, MD, is nearing completion of a permanent exhibit featuring the USS Calvert. Part of the plan and investment for the exhibit was the commissioning of a display model of the USS Calvert.
If you plan to visit, helpful information is available on the museum’s website, here.
Museum location is 14200 Solomons Island Rd S, Solomons, MD 20688. Google map view here.
Permanent exhibit, as of September, 2020
Appreciation to Mark Wilkins, Curator of Maritime History, Calvert Marine Museum, for these photographs. And appreciation to Robert Hurry, Museum Registrar, for the close-up photograph of the completed display model.
Temporary exhibit, late 2018 to early-2019
About the USS Calvert exhibit
The article below was published in the Fall 2019 edition of the Calvert Marine Museum’s Bugeye Times newsletter. The full newsletter is available here.
About the Calvert Marine Museum, Solomon Islands, MD
The Calvert Marine Museum has a sizable collection of artifacts, documents and photographs related to the USS Calvert, her crew, Calvert reunions and the Calvert Associates.
Most of these materials donated to the museum were provided by John Cole, the original author, compiler, and publisher of the Calversion as well as the original organizer for the USS Calvert reunions. At the 1981 USS Calvert reunion, Atlanta, GA, the Calvert Associates approved the Calvert Marine Museum as the official repository for USS Calvert materials.
The museum manages the USS Calvert archive as a “dynamic collection” with volunteers actively cataloging, digitizing and archiving the thousands of photographs and documents.
If you have USS Calvert related materials, and you don’t know what to do with it, please consider sending your materials to the Museum and they will care for it for future generations. Contact me with questions and I will connect you with the appropriate staff contacts at the museum.
USS Calvert Associates reunion group’s visit to the Museum, October 2015
As part of the 2015 Baltimore reunion event, attendees were welcomed by the Calvert Marine Museum staff and Calvert County officials at the Calvert County Library. At the museum we were able to get close up to selected items from the museum’s ever growing collection of USS Calvert memorabilia. The library hosted a temporary exhibit of the USS Calvert in advance of the Museum’s long-term plans for the permanent exhibit as shown above.
Here are several photos from the 2015 visit to the Museum and library.