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• 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.

  

• A Maritime issue on the ballot!

  • Community Engagement
  • Environmental Conservation

  October 15, 2020

  The future of cruise ships in the world of Covid-19 may be on the minds of many citizens of port cities that welcome them.

  

• Hampton Roads Invaded: The Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars

  • Hampton Roads History
  • Military Conflict

  October 15, 2020

  

• La Isabel Project: Part Two

  • Collections
  • Conservation

  October 14, 2020

  Transition into the next steps of this conservation project which involve looking more closely at La Isabel’s history, structure, and condition.

  

• RAPHAEL SEMMES AND CSS SUMTER

  • Civil War
  • Military Conflict

  October 8, 2020

  The Sumter’s cruise launched the career of one of the greatest commerce raider commanders in history.