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• Episode III – Mariners Still Sailing Together…Apart

  • Photography

  August 12, 2020

  Go behind the scenes in the galleries & with staff of the Mariners' Museum during our temporary closure due to the pandemic in this photo series.

  

• Agents of Decay: they’re everywhere!

  • Conservation

  August 5, 2020

  The agents range from everyday environmental issues to unlikely, but devastating, events. It’s important to remember, and you’ll see it as we go through the list, that often these agents work together.

  

• Great Plants Create a Great Park

  • Mariners' Park

  August 4, 2020

  Providing a beautiful Park full of diversity was a long-standing goal.

  

• Mariners Still Sailing Together…Apart – Part 2

  • Photography

  August 2, 2020

  Go behind the scenes with staff of the Mariners' Museum during our temporary closure due to the pandemic in this exclusive photo series.

  

• A Look at the Unknown and Hope for the Future: The Artwork of Shipyard and Museum Staff Artist Thomas C. Skinner

  • Art
  • Collections
  • Shipbuilding

  July 31, 2020

  Thomas Catlett Skinner’s office was a loft overlooking the dry dock at the Newport News shipyard. Frequently he would gather his tools and wander through the yard, stopping to observe and document the many scenes unfolding before him. 

  

• A salty situation

  • Conservation
  • Cultural Heritage

  July 28, 2020

  When salt gets into things it’s not meant to get into, it almost always causes problems, but the nature of the problem varies by material: organics (like wood, leather and cloth), metals (like iron and copper), and other inorganic materials (like ceramics, glass and stone).

  

• Mariners Still Sailing Together…Apart

  • Photography

  July 26, 2020

  Go behind the scenes in the galleries & with staff of the Mariners' Museum during our temporary closure due to the pandemic in this photo series.

  

• Conservation Treatment of a 17th-Century Dutch Print

  • Conservation

  July 24, 2020

  Details on the paper treatment and common conservation techniques for a print that came to the lab due to its fragile condition.