Now On View

Maritime City

Be one of the first to explore the Seaport Museum’s latest exhibition Maritime City, which is now on view! The exhibition highlights how New York City, as we know it today, arose from the sea.

Throughout the extensive three-floor exhibition, 540 deliberately-selected objects from the collections and archives of the Museum are on view to underscore how the city’s identity as a global capital of culture and finance is rooted in its origins as a seaport.  

As you walk through the exhibition you will discover how the waterways, people, and industries of the Greater New York area led to the creation of a truly diverse city.

Shop at
Bowne & Co.

Wednesday–Sunday

You don’t need a General Admission ticket to the Seaport Museum to visit the Bowne & Co. gift emporium and fancy goods shop.

Stop by to browse the carefully-curated selection of unique books, candles, home decor, stationery, oddities, as well as house-designed and -printed paper goods.

Featured Blog

Labor on the Lower Decks

Focusing on the Stories of Maritime Workers

When telling a story about life at sea, it’s easy to just focus on the captains as the lone heroes at the helm. But what about all the other workers, whose tireless labor made everything possible?

In this month’s Collections Chronicles blog post the Museum’s Archives and Special Collections Specialist, Elena Abou Mrad, highlights the stories that often get overlooked in maritime history. While cataloging the Maritime Workers Archival Collection and the Egbert J. L. Jap-Ngie Collection, many stories of work, immigration, and activism emerged. Most of these maritime professions still exist to this day, shining a light on the long history of labor at sea.