The Carolina Maritime Model Society exists to promote the production of high-quality ship models and encourage members and the public to participate in a craft that is as old as shipbuilding itself. The group will meet in the North Carolina maritime Museum’s auditorium. Meetings are open to the public.

The society is the oldest such organization in the entire state and has become a major vehicle for widening public interest in North Carolina’s maritime history and culture.

The North Carolina Maritime Museum and the Museum’s support group, the Friends of the Museum, formed the Carolina Maritime Model Society in 1995.

The society exists to encourage interest and active participation in the hobby, to improve the standards of members’ models through the free exchange of ideas, techniques and information, and to emphasize to both members and the public at large that research is the foundation for the production of high-quality ship models.