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• Paper and Water – Friends or Foes?

  May 22, 2020

  

• Contributions from Conservation: More than Meets the Eye

  June 19, 2018

  

• A Glimpse of Early 20th-Century Life at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company

  March 30, 2020

  

• Conservation Update: Turret Knife

  • Civil War
  • Conservation
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Hampton Roads History
  • USS Monitor

  July 16, 2020

  An update on the conservation treatment for a bone-handled knife found in the concretion of the turret.

  

• The Flying Bridge of Bratislava

  • Collections
  • Shipbuilding

  December 12, 2022

  Learn about the history, design, operation, and use of “flying bridges” – ferries propelled solely by water flow!

  

• Matthew A. Henson: The first African American to reach the North Pole

  • Black History
  • Collections
  • Exploration

  March 17, 2023

  Matthew Henson was the first African American to reach and stand on one of earth’s farthest reaches – the North Pole. Hear about his adventures in his own words from his 1912 autobiography, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole.

  

• Bearded or Ringed or Spotted? Oh my!

  February 21, 2020

  

• Lots of Mud, a Battleship, a Ferry, a T-shirt, High Tides, and a UFO.

  • Collections
  • Military
  • Military Conflict
  • Technology

  October 15, 2021

  What do a Battleship, 1950, mud, high tides, a Hudson River Ferry, a T-shirt, and a UFO all have in common?