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• La Isabel Project: Part Three

  • Collections
  • Conservation

  November 6, 2020

  Analysis is an important part of conservation because identifying specific materials in an artifact helps us better understand how an artifact degrades, its history, and much more. For La Isabel, we were interested in learning more about two specific materials: wood and fibers.

  

• Battle of Port Royal Sound

  • Black History
  • Civil War
  • Military Conflict

  November 5, 2020

  The Civil War’s second major amphibious operation was the capture of Port Royal Sound on November 7, 1861.

  

• Opening Day: What The Mariners’ Museum looked like in the 1930s

  • Collections

  November 4, 2020

  Today, The Mariners’ Museum and Park’s exhibition space is roughly 90,000 square feet; but when the Museum opened to the public in November 1933, there was only a little over 12,000 square feet of gallery space.

  

• The Tales Candy Can Tell

  • Collections

  November 3, 2020

  The tins that contained the early toffees were very unique, showing stylized alphabets, fairy tales, royal families, astronauts, and numerous other fanciful scenes. The tin in our collection features two ships at sea. 

  

• Built with WHAT??! Bones, Hair, and Prisoners: Model Ships of War

  • Collections

  October 30, 2020

  A short history of model ships made of bone, built by prisoners of war.

  

• Tattooing…a dead art?

  • Collections
  • Military

  October 29, 2020

  The Museum holds a wonderful collection of materials once used by the world famous Norfolk tattooist August Bernard Coleman, known as Cap Coleman. What was the motivation for acquiring this collection?

  

• Battle of Galveston

  • Civil War
  • Military Conflict
  • Shipbuilding

  October 23, 2020

  Major General John Bankhead Magruder arrived in Texas in late October 1862 and immediately sought to regain the laurels he had earned on the Virginia Peninsula.

  

• Of Two Worlds

  • Collections

  October 20, 2020

  Early European explorers and settlers to Virginia found that the Indigenous population had a successful watercraft of their own: the dugout canoe. Canoes were laboriously crafted from a single log.