Also on display are tools used in the shipbuilding trades, scale models of steam and sale vessels, gear for harvesting and processing seafood, and many documents, maps, photographs, and paintings. This gallery features changing and traveling exhibits ranging from displays of photographs and marine paintings to special topical exhibits. The Patuxent River Small Craft Guild and Solomons Island Model Boat Club occasionally demonstrate small craft handling and model boat racing in the basin. Here the visitor is encouraged to explore the three themes of the museum by touching and doing. This outdoor exhibit features two live female otters and introduces visitors to these playful, though seldom seen mammals.
Visitors are able to view the otters both below and above the water.
Here visitors may look into the exhibit fabrication shop and see the museum's resident master woodcarver and model maker at work. The Southern Maryland Shipcarvers' Guild and the Solomons Island Model Boat Club maintain headquarters in the woodworking shop where their skills are demonstrated to the public. Half models, scale boat models, figureheads, and trailboards are examples of their craft.