Reveal your personal connection to the sea through our specially curated exhibitions that delve into ocean exploration, maritime innovation, recreation, art, artifacts, and more.
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ON EXHIBIT A collection of LEGO® models of historic shipwrecks paired with authentic artifacts. | Stillman Building
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ON EXHIBIT A rumination on the history of American whaling and its impact on our region and nation. |...
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ON EXHIBIT The Art of the Boat at Mystic Seaport Museum chronicles yachting from 1881 to 1992. | Meeting...
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ON EXHIBIT Explores deep regional connections and provides a lens into the local commercial fishing industry through photography. |...
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ON EXHIBIT Stories of Maritime History from a Diverse Perspective | Museum Grounds
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ON EXHIBIT A Mystic Merchant’s Battle With The Crusade Against Strong Drink | Burrow's House
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ON EXHIBIT An Elaborate Aft Cabin | Stillman Building, Second Floor
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ON EXHIBIT Replica of Nantucket’s Brant Point Light | Siegel Point
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ON EXHIBIT 92-foot Keel Assembly of a Whaleship | Henry B. du Pont Preservation Shipyard
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ON EXHIBIT Mystic River in the Mid-1800s | Scale Model Building, Village Green
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ON EXHIBIT Decorations Adorning the Bows of Boats and Ships | Wendell Building
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COMING IN 2027 Examine the spread of surfing from isolated Indigenous Peoples to the worldwide phenomenon it is today....
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An exploration of the theme of transformation through select maritime artifacts. The exhibition is the inaugural installation in the...
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Presents John Grade's monumental carved cedar pingo, a 15' x 38' x 42' sculpture whose walls open and close...
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The exhibition brings artifacts from one of the world’s finest early Viking-age collections outside of their home in Sweden...
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Explores the fate of the Franklin Expedition, a tragic story of Arctic exploration and death and one of the...
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Explores the maritime origins of streamlined design and its journey from naval architecture and engineering into our everyday vocabulary.
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A major exhibition organized in cooperation with Tate. The show is drawn from the renowned Turner Bequest of 1856,...
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DEEPSEA CHALLENGER is a submersible science platform built by explorer and filmmaker James Cameron to journey to the Challenger...
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Centers maritime histories in Indigenous, African, and African-descended worldviews and experiences.
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Based on French author Jules Verne’s 1870 classic, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, this exhibition brings to life the...
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Explores some of the inspiring ways that people have tried to record the ocean’s mesmerizing marine invertebrates. The main...
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A major exhibition featuring ten large-scale watercolors and an 8-by-24-foot panoramic painting, all commissioned by the Museum to become...
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Brings to life the Venetian glass revival of the late nineteenth century and the artistic experimentation the city inspired...
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A gallery of stunning underwater video imagery that will inspire visitors to delve deeper into the present-day maritime experience....
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The Panorama, which is owned and preserved by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, depicts in fascinating detail the voyage...
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The show introduces visitors to the many ways people transform one of nature’s most malleable materials to objects of...
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Explores the ways that the sea provided a inspiration for decorative arts in the late 19th and early 20th...
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An exploration of America’s historic and contemporary relationship with whales and whaling.
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The remarkable richness of human interest stories behind the hundreds of small and large vessels in the Museum's collection,...
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Explores the art that emerged out of the working world of sailors, reflecting their connections to shipboard life, their...
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