There are a wide variety of educational opportunities available for you and your friends and family to take advantage of at the Columbia River Maritime Museum. Our mission is to provide interactive, engaging programs that will inspire visitors of all ages and abilities to immerse themselves in the rich maritime cultures of the Columbia River.
EDU Cart
The Columbia River Maritime Museum’s Education Cart is a hands-on, mobile experience that encourages visitors to use sight, touch, smell, and hearing to explore the Columbia River’s maritime heritage. CRMM currently offers two hands-on EDU Cart programs. In Life at Sea, visitors will learn how to use traditional maritime tools that sailors used to keep everything on board in shipshape condition. In Early Trading History, visitors will dive into the resources available to people living on the Columbia River during the 1800s and handle goods that represent the maritime fur trade network between the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
EDU Talks
CRMM’s EDU Talks are short, engaging, and informative additions to your visit to the museum during the summer months. EDU Talks are 10-15 minute presentations on topics including nautical slang in everyday life, maritime tattoos, Astoria’s history of shanghaiing, and more. EDU Talk programming is continuously refreshed each year so that our visitors can learn something new every time they visit the museum.
EDU Labs
CRMM’s EDU Labs offer even more hands-on opportunities to learn about maritime history. These 15-30 minute labs feature activities like baking hardtack, crafting sailor’s valentines out of seashells, and making miniature working models of Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
Saturday Rope Making (will resume in 2021)
Join our volunteer Kenny each Saturday from 11-1 where he will be doing what has done every Saturday for 25 years, teaching our visitors how to make rope the old fashioned way. Each group gets to keep the rope they make.
EDU Cart
The Columbia River Maritime Museum’s Education Cart is a hands-on, mobile experience that encourages visitors to use sight, touch, smell, and hearing to explore the Columbia River’s maritime heritage. CRMM currently offers two hands-on EDU Cart programs. In Life at Sea, visitors will learn how to use traditional maritime tools that sailors used to keep everything on board in shipshape condition. In Early Trading History, visitors will dive into the resources available to people living on the Columbia River during the 1800s and handle goods that represent the maritime fur trade network between the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
EDU Talks
CRMM’s EDU Talks are short, engaging, and informative additions to your visit to the museum during the summer months. EDU Talks are 10-15 minute presentations on topics including nautical slang in everyday life, maritime tattoos, Astoria’s history of shanghaiing, and more. EDU Talk programming is continuously refreshed each year so that our visitors can learn something new every time they visit the museum.
EDU Labs
CRMM’s EDU Labs offer even more hands-on opportunities to learn about maritime history. These 15-30 minute labs feature activities like baking hardtack, crafting sailor’s valentines out of seashells, and making miniature working models of Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
Saturday Rope Making (will resume in 2021)
Join our volunteer Kenny each Saturday from 11-1 where he will be doing what has done every Saturday for 25 years, teaching our visitors how to make rope the old fashioned way. Each group gets to keep the rope they make.
ROV Club
The Columbia River Maritime Museum’s ROV Club is made up of a small group of students from Astoria Middle School who design and build their very own Remotely-Operated Vehicle (ROV) and compete in the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Regional Competition at the end of the school year. This STEAM-focused group meets weekly during our students’ second semester.
The Columbia River Maritime Museum’s ROV Club is made up of a small group of students from Astoria Middle School who design and build their very own Remotely-Operated Vehicle (ROV) and compete in the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Regional Competition at the end of the school year. This STEAM-focused group meets weekly during our students’ second semester.
ROV Camp
The Columbia River Maritime Museum hosts a week-long camp each summer for incoming 6th and 7th grade students interested in robotics, oceanography, engineering, underwater archaeology, and marine technology. Campers design, construct, and test their own Remotely-Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to complete a simulated mission to retrieve items from the historical ‘Beeswax Shipwreck’ off the Oregon coast. Scholarships are available for this awesome STEAM-focused program. Scheduled for July 26-30, 2021.