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• Twelve Days of Christmas at The Mariners’ Museum

  • Collections
  • Exploration

  December 24, 2018

  The Mariners’ Museum version of the twelve days of Christmas to celebrate Dollar Admission and the holidays and today, a few of our Museum guests helped me illustrate it.

  

• Sail Maker’s Sewing Kit: A Look at an Artifact’s Pit-stop in Conservation before Going out on Loan

  • Collections
  • Conservation

  November 28, 2018

  Recently, I’ve been working on several items that are going out on loan to various institutions next year. While only a couple of these projects will be very treatment intensive (probably more on those later…), I thought I’d share an example of the routine care and due diligence paid to every artifact prior to loan. Every little consideration is important to ensure the safety of an object while it is being appreciated elsewhere.

  

• Not just big heads, historic survivors of the Blitz!

  November 15, 2018

  

• A local story for Armistice Day

  November 11, 2018

  

• Another day, another Dahlgren!

  • Conservation
  • USS Monitor

  November 5, 2018

  Today’s question seems like a simple one – how long is a Dahlgren Shell Gun?

  

• Aeronautical Engineer and #mariner

  October 19, 2018

  

• Giving the Dutch the What For in 1599

  October 15, 2018

  

• Let’s talk about the Ocean…of Plastics, clean-up efforts, & how to help

  October 11, 2018