Costumed interpreters demonstrating 18th-century crafts at the Hogshead Trades Museum in Annapolis, a living history site operated by Historic Annapolis.

Hogshead Trades Museum

History Comes to Life in Annapolis, A Museum Without Walls™

GET HANDs-ON with HISTORY at HOGSHEAD TRADES MUSEUM.

Have fun discovering the sights, sounds, and stories of the working-class people of colonial Annapolis at the Hogshead Trades Museum.  Visitors of all ages will enjoy talking with interpreters in historic attire as they share details of the daily tasks, meals, and family life of a tradesperson. You might meet a shoemaker, a baker, a seamstress, a printer, or an apothecary! Visitors will also enjoy hands-on activities including reproduction artifacts. 

Location

43 Pinkney Street
Annapolis, MD 21401
410.267.7619

Hours

Open April through November

Friday – Saturday: 11 am – 3 pm
(and select Sundays)

ADMISSION FEES

Daily Admission to Hogshead is pay-what-you-wish (special events may have an associated admission fee).

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Your donations support the interactive living history programs at Hogshead, as well as HA’s exhibits and educational outreach. Thank you for helping us to bring history to life!

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Exterior view of the Hogshead Trades Museum in Annapolis, a preserved 18th-century home showcasing daily colonial life and crafts.
Interpreter dressed in 18th-century attire demonstrates colonial baking inside Hogshead Museum in Annapolis.
Visitors engage in hands-on learning with an interpreter demonstrating colonial writing and trade skills at Hogshead in Annapolis.
Costumed interpreter welcomes visitors outside Hogshead Trades Museum along the cobblestone streets of historic Annapolis.
Families meet Revolutionary War reenactors outside Hogshead Trades Museum, learning about colonial life and history.
Interpreter in 18th-century dress shares stories of early Annapolis trades and daily life with museum visitors inside Hogshead.
Children and families explore colonial tools and crafts during an educational program inside Hogshead Trades Museum.
Costumed interpreters stand outside Hogshead Trades Museum in Annapolis, sharing colonial stories with visitors.
Interpreters demonstrate woodworking and trade tools from the 18th century inside Hogshead Trades Museum in Annapolis.
Interpreter and visitor recreate an 18th-century flag during a living history program at Hogshead Trades Museum in Annapolis.

This modest wood-frame structure with a gambrel roof is a rare surviving example of a building type that was common in 18th-century Annapolis. It was just this sort of inexpensive rental housing that the new state government pressed into service as barracks for military recruits during the Revolutionary War. Today, visitors learn what life was like for the “lower and middling sort” in early Maryland through an interactive experience with guides dressed in colonial attire and the opportunity to see and handle authentic and reproduction artifacts.

Historic Annapolis gratefully acknowledges the recent support of Chesapeake Crossroads Heritage Area, the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, the Rotary Club of Annapolis, and a private donor to update interpretation at the Hogshead Trades Museum in 2024.Maryland Historical Trust

This project has been financed with State Fund from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, an instrumentality of the State of Maryland. However, the content and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority.