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Mystic Seaport Museum to Host Wintertide During Presidents’ Day Weekend

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Mystic, Conn. (January 30, 2023) – Mystic Seaport Museum will be celebrating the great outdoors during Wintertide, an event spanning three days over Presidents’ Day Weekend. Visitors can shake off the cabin fever and experience frosty fun the whole family will enjoy!

Featured activities will include:

10:00 am-12:00 pm, Daily: Live Ice Sculpture Demonstration (weather permitting)

11:00 am-4:00 pm, Daily: Meet reindeer! There will be four reindeer on the grounds for visitors to interact with and pet.

11:00 am-3:00 pm, Daily: Meet working winter dogs, St. Bernards (Saturday) and Newfoundlands (Sunday and Monday).

1:00-3:00 pm, Daily: Kid-friendly live music in the Meeting House, with Steve Elci & Friends (Saturday), BenAnna Band (Sunday), and Craig Edwards (Monday).

2:00 pm, Saturday: Justin Fornal discusses his Great Arctic Swim (longest continuous swim in the Arctic). Then he’ll dive into the Mystic River and swim from the Museum to downtown Mystic!

2:00 pm, Sunday: Indigenous Cooking Demonstration at Buckingham-Hall House with Silvermoon LaRose (Narragansett/Niantic).

Visitors will also be able to enjoy daily planetarium shows, sock skating, games, crafts, talks across the grounds on a variety of topics including whalers in the Arctic, Gerda III and the rescue of Danish Jews, tales of the Mystic ice trade, and more.

Propeller Café and Schaefer’s Spouter Tavern will  be open serving up a variety of food and beverage options to compliment the frosty theme including, hot cocoa and s’mores kits.

Guests will have the opportunity to warm up next to a fire while enjoying their hot cocoa and then check out the Museum’s blockbuster exhibition, Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano, before it closes on February 27.

“We’re flipping the script on winter, which often confines activity to indoor spaces.  Wintertide is a celebration of winter, utilizing our grounds to reimagine the season with a combination of outdoor exploration and indoor adventures,” says Museum President Peter Armstrong.

Most activities are included with general admission and free for Museum Members. Tickets purchased online for Wintertide are valid for all three days of the event.

Learn more, purchase tickets and see the full event lineup here.

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Media Contact

Sophia Matsas
Director of Marketing & Communications
Mystic Seaport Museum
860.572.5317 (o)
sophia.matsas@mysticseaport.org

About Mystic Seaport Museum

Mystic Seaport Museum is the nation’s leading maritime Museum. Founded in 1929 to gather and preserve the rapidly disappearing artifacts of America’s seafaring past, the Museum has grown to become a national center for research and education with the mission to “inspire an enduring connection to the American maritime experience.” The Museum’s grounds cover 19 acres on the Mystic River in Mystic, CT, and include a recreated New England coastal village, a working shipyard, formal exhibit halls, and state-of-the-art artifact storage facilities. The Museum is home to more than 500 historic watercraft, including four National Historic Landmark vessels, most notably the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan. For more information, please visit mysticseaport.org and follow the Museum on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.

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Mystic Seaport Museum Awarded CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities

Mystic, Conn. (January 18, 2023) – Mystic Seaport Museum has been awarded a $150,000 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities (CTH). CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants assist museums and other non-profit organizations as they recover from the pandemic and maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public.

The Museum has identified three areas in which the funds will be used:

·   Improve Technology/Online Presence

·   Increase Visitation/Audience

·   Grow Revenue

The Museum is committed to engaging more diverse audiences, enhancing access to our institution (both on-site and digitally), increasing visitation and revenue, hiring, retaining, and training staff, addressing climate resilience, and improving our digital infrastructure as interlocking institutional priorities meant to strengthen our capacity and sustainability.

“In the coming year, the Museum plans to improve vital elements of our digital infrastructure, including Wi-Fi enhancements, digitizing our collections, and upgrading system tools that will improve efficiency across the Museum and allow for more targeted, meaningful engagement with all of our stakeholders,” says Museum President Peter Armstrong. “We are grateful to CT Humanities for supporting our efforts to expand accessibility and create more impactful interactions with the Museum.”

The Museum was one of 725 organizations in Connecticut receiving a CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant. Totaling more than $8.5 million, these grants are part of a two-year, $30.7 million investment in arts, humanities, and cultural nonprofits by the Connecticut General Assembly and approved by Governor Ned Lamont.

This CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant is provided to Mystic Seaport Museum from CT Humanities with funding from the Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) from the Connecticut State Legislature.

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Media Contact

Sophia Matsas
Director of Marketing & Communications
Mystic Seaport Museum
860.572.5317 (o)
sophia.matsas@mysticseaport.org

About Mystic Seaport Museum

Mystic Seaport Museum is the nation’s leading maritime Museum. Founded in 1929 to gather and preserve the rapidly disappearing artifacts of America’s seafaring past, the Museum has grown to become a national center for research and education with the mission to “inspire an enduring connection to the American maritime experience.” The Museum’s grounds cover 19 acres on the Mystic River in Mystic, CT, and include a recreated New England coastal village, a working shipyard, formal exhibit halls, and state-of-the-art artifact storage facilities. The Museum is home to more than 500 historic watercraft, including four National Historic Landmark vessels, most notably the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan. For more information, please visit mysticseaport.org and follow the Museum on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.

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Exhibition of Photography by Fisherwoman Corey Wheeler Forrest Opens February 4

Mystic, Conn. (January 17, 2023) – Mystic Seaport Museum is pleased to present Fish & Forrest: Through the Lens of a Commercial Fishermom, an exhibition of photography by third generation fisherwoman Corey Wheeler Forrest. Fish & Forrest will be on view inside the Museum’s historic Meeting House from February 4, 2023 and will be on display through the summer.  The exhibition will be accompanied by associated talks, panel discussions, film screenings, and launch party events around southeastern New England.

Hailing from a long line of commercial fisherpersons in Sakonnet Point, Rhode Island, Corey’s family today runs the last trap fishing operation in southern New England. The family business spans generations, including everyone from Corey’s 75-year-old father to her own young daughter. The family is the subject of the mini documentary The Last Trap Family, which is available online and will be screened accompanying the exhibition. The opening of the documentary neatly emphasizes the family’s significance:

 “In the 1800s there were 200 traps that lined the shore.

We are the last family that fishes this way.”

Fish & Forrest presents over 30 photographs selected from Corey’s Instagram account @fishandforrest. Here, she documents her life as a commercial fisherwoman preserving sustainable traditions in a male-dominated profession.

Corey’s lead boat runs on only ten gallons of gas a day, and because fish remain alive in the traps, any fish that will not be used are released. Rising expenses make this sustainable method of fishing increasingly difficult, yet Corey and her family remain ever hopeful for another year. Her photographs are evocative of this dedication and of what she refers to as quintessential fishing town. Corey’s images capture her 4 a.m. wake-up calls, her brother in his fishing gear, and the bow of her boat on foggy summer mornings to provide a window into the slice of life that she hopes to preserve. Fish & Forrest will be the artist’s first photography exhibition and will feature 30 works spanning the last 7 years.

Fish & Forrest is made possible in part by the generous support of Filson and Xtratuf.

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Media Contact

Sophia Matsas
Director of Marketing & Communications
Mystic Seaport Museum
860.572.5317 (o)
sophia.matsas@mysticseaport.org

About Mystic Seaport Museum

Mystic Seaport Museum is the nation’s leading maritime Museum. Founded in 1929 to gather and preserve the rapidly disappearing artifacts of America’s seafaring past, the Museum has grown to become a national center for research and education with the mission to “inspire an enduring connection to the American maritime experience.” The Museum’s grounds cover 19 acres on the Mystic River in Mystic, CT, and include a recreated New England coastal village, a working shipyard, formal exhibit halls, and state-of-the-art artifact storage facilities. The Museum is home to more than 500 historic watercraft, including four National Historic Landmark vessels, most notably the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan. For more information, please visit mysticseaport.org and follow the Museum on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.

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