Cannery

The museum is housed in an 1865 waterfront cannery, once owned by Platt and Company, and is the only surviving cannery building in Baltimore. Oysters from the Chesapeake Bay were canned here, as were fruits and vegetables from Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Explore the history of food canning and preservation, what roles women, children, and formerly enslaved people had in the industry, and why oysters were historically harvested only in months with the letter ‘r.’