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  • Getting the Collection “Ship-Shape”: The Small Craft Survey

    • Collections
    • Conservation
    • Cultural Heritage

    The small craft collection contains a diverse variety of vessels ranging in size, shape, function, and source culture. Because the Museum’s small craft originate from such a variety of contexts, each boat comes to the Museum with its own quirks and challenges resulting from its history of use. To get a better understanding of the collection, its condition issues, and its needs, it is necessary to evaluate each small craft, one-by-one.

  • Battle of Wassaw Sound and CSS Atlanta

    • Civil War
    • Military
    • Military Conflict

    CSS Atlanta was an ironclad transformation effort which used the iron-hull and Scottish-built engines of SS Fingal to fashion one of the Confederacy’s most powerful warships. The ironclad; however, had a deep draft which limited its operational area below Savannah

  • A Vial-ful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down: Technical Analysis of Historical “Medicines” from a Medical Chest

    • Collections
    • Conservation

    Learn more about the treatment and analysis of a Ship’s Medical Chest from c.1860. The results of analysis will be used to inform safe handling and storage of the chest.

  • The Legacy of USS Mayflower: Private and Presidential Yacht, US Navy Warship, Merchant Ship

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Exploration

    Several years ago, I first learned of USS Mayflower, a presidential yacht. I was studying about the 1905 Portsmouth Peace Conference at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. I was curious but didn’t have time to delve into the ship’s history.

  • Beyond The Frame: The Fun of It

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections
    • Women's History

    While I was looking for information on a different painting, I saw this one of Anna Vaughn Hyatt (later to be Huntington). I was enamored with it and when I discovered the artist behind this painting, Marion Boyd Allen, is female, I might have done a little happy dance.

  • Abuzz with Activity in the Bumblebee Learning Garden

    • Educational Enrichment
    • Mariners' Park
    • Wildlife

    If you are planning to visit the Museum and Park and want to explore a fun place, please consider passing by our lovely Learning Garden. We chose plants that bloom at various times of the year (namely spring, summer, and fall), and many plants are in full bloom right now. One of the most impressive and wonderful bee attractors is the purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea).

  • PRIDE of the WACs: Sex and Sexuality during WWII

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Military
    • Women's History

    The Women’s Army Corps or WAC (originally the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) was the only one of these groups to integrate women into its corresponding military branch fully. However, in the 1940s, there were much stricter ideas of gender norms, gender expression, and heteronormativity. This meant there was significant pushback against the idea of women joining the military, as this was viewed as the epitome of masculine spaces.

  • “Please Don’t Eat the Pictures!”: museum etiquette demystified

    • Collections

    I thought it’d be fun to celebrate in the nerdiest way possible; facts! In this post I’ll explain some museum etiquette basics and talk about some extra services museum’s offer that you might not be aware of.

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