2026 CAMM Annual Conference

The 2026 CAMM Annual Conference will be held at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT.

April 22-25, 2026

2026 Annual Conference Call for Papers

Conference theme: Resilience and Relevance

How do we as maritime museums adapt and endure in a changing world? All institutions and programs encounter challenges, so what strategies do we look to when facing shifting financial or funding realities, new community priorities, or natural or human-caused calamities? In trying times, how do we reinvent ourselves while remaining true to our core values and missions?

The CAMM program committee invites presentation proposals that address institutional and programmatic resilience and relevance within one or more of the following maritime-museum areas of action:

Exhibitions and interpretation

Education and outreach

Preservation

Collections

Watercraft and watercraft/waterfront programing

Administration and development

When submitting a proposal for this year’s conference, please be certain to explain how your topic fits into the overall conference theme.

All proposals are due by 8pm EST on Monday, December 1, 2025.

Submit your proposal on this Proposal Form. Email any questions to the CAMM administrator at maritimemuseums@gmail.com. The CAMM program committee will evaluate each proposal, and you will be notified by Friday, December 19, if your presentation is accepted.

All presenters will be required to register for the conference.

Please note:

To welcome new voices and new ideas, the CAMM program committee may give preference to speakers who have not presented at a CAMM conference within the last two years.

The program committee reserves the right to unite single presentations into loose panels as required.

Single presentations may be limited to 30 minutes, including a question-and-answer segment.

Conference Schedule

Details will be announced in January 2026.

Accommodations

Details will be announced at a later date.

Travel Grants

Click here to learn about our Leonard Rennie Travel Grants

CAMM Annual Conference Locations

2014	Toledo, OH	National Museum of the Great Lakes
2015	Los Angeles, CA	Los Angeles Maritime Museum
2016	Wilmington, DE	Kalmar Nyckel Foundation
2017	San Francisco, CA	San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
2018	Bermuda, BOT	National Museum of Bermuda
2019	Manitowoc, WI	Wisconsin Maritime Museum
2020	Vancouver, BC	canceled due to pandemic
2021	Virtual	Virtual
2022	St. Michaels, MD	Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
2023	Astoria, OR	Columbia River Maritime Museum
2024	Boston, MA	USS Constitution Museum
2025	Pensacola, FL	Pensacola Lighthouse & Maritime Museum
2026	Mystic, CT	Mystic Seaport Museum
2027	Location TBD
2028	Location TBD
2029	Location TBD