Exhibits are made to be movable at the waterside Annapolis Maritime Museum. Some are on wheels and most can be elevated for instances when a flood at the end of Eastport’s Second Street is imminent — that situation has occurred three times within the past three years.

“We have learned to roll with it,” Alice Estrada, the CEO of the museum from 2013 through September of this year, said. “That was something that in the past was more crippling, but now we have learned a routine to anticipate these, what’s becoming more and more frequent, serious floods.”

As the Chesapeake Bay rises along with the world’s oceans, the city of Annapolis and other local partners are looking for ways to protect the low-lying city neighborhoods from ruin.

Annapolis broke ground in November on the two-year, $87

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