The exhibition will bring artifacts from one of the world’s finest early Viking-age collections outside of their home in Sweden for the first time. It will be the international debut for the exhibition.

To increase public awareness prior to the opening of its “Death in the Ice,” exhibition, the Museum is increasing visitor and social media awareness of the new AMC series, “The Terror.”

Laura Hopkins started as senior vice president for Advancement in early January, as the Museum prepared to launch its Era of Exhibitions.

Artist John Grade will return to Mystic Seaport March 20-21 to add pieces to his kinetic sculpture Murmur: Arctic Realities, currently on exhibit in the Collins Gallery at the Museum.

Mystic Seaport, in partnership with the New Bedford Whaling Museum, has developed the world’s most comprehensive whaling history database and it is now available for all to use at WhalingHistory.org.

Dawn Riley, the first woman to compete in both the America’s Cup and in the Whitbread Round the World Race, will receive the 2018 America and the Sea Award from Mystic Seaport.