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Black and white photograph depicting passengers aboard North German Lloyd Line ship SS Bremen looking starboard toward Manhattan skyline.

Maritime City Exhibition
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Tour Historic Ships
Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

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This Week

Holiday Tree Lighting Activities

Join the Seaport Museum at Pier 16 and Seaport Square for the annual neighborhood tree lighting event––a magical evening filled with community spirit, music, and cheer.

Grain de Sail: A Taste of Modern Sail Freight

Join the Seaport Museum and the schooner Grain de Sail for an engaging two-part tour that will showcase the past and present of transporting cargo under sail. 

Fresh Prints

This free open house features a breadth of printing equipment that you will be invited to use. Come see how the designers at Bowne lock up limited edition designs that showcase some of the more eccentric parts from the Seaport Museum’s printing and graphic arts collection.

Whiskey Tasting Aboard the 1885 Tall Ship Wavertree

Join New York Adventure Club and the Seaport Museum for a unique two-hour whiskey tasting experience aboard the historic Wavertree.

Sinister Secrets of the Seaport

Throughout this interactive walking tour, your guide will share historical stories ripped from the headlines of newspapers and publications from the 1790s to the 1990s that provide a new perspective on the history of the area that helped to make New York a global metropolis.

Gone But Not Forgotten Artist Talk

Join the Seaport Museum with artist Naima Rauam at City Lore Gallery for an engaging discussion about the artist’s work, its connection to the South Street Seaport, and her current exhibition Gone But Not Forgotten.

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Wednesday–Sunday
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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.

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1868 Warehouse A.A. Thomson & Co.

The restoration of A.A. Thomson & Co. is nearing completion! In 2019, after securing substantial funding, the Seaport Museum began a careful renovation of this historic warehouse. Working with the celebrated preservation architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle, the Seaport Museum transformed the historic 12,000-square-foot warehouse into a large-scale exhibition space, a hub for engaging educational programming, and a gathering space for the community.

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Featured Blog

Cursive Conundrums

Spotlight on Museum Archives Program Volunteers Helping with Transcription

The latest Collections Chronicles blog post explores a special project that Museum volunteers are participating in the Museum Archives Program have been working on throughout this Fall: transcribing late-18th century to mid-20th century letters, manuscripts, and other handwritten documents from the Museum’s Archives and Special Collections into digital formats.

[Letter from James Bogert to John D’ Wolf], December 5, 1800. Gift of William R. Bogert, 1980.089.0003.c

Would you be able to solve these cursive conundrums? The handwriting is beautiful but sometimes difficult to decipher. Volunteers have been reading and transcribing historic letters, manuscripts, and records from the archives, so that they can be made more accessible internally to staff and externally to researchers. Since the project started, 50 historical documents have been transcribed, and volunteers have made it possible to identify the contents of historical documents that tell a bigger story about the Port of New York and its connections to the rest of the world.

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Sail New York Harbor

The 2024 Sailing Season has Come to a Close

Thank you to everyone who enjoyed an on-the-water adventure with the Seaport Museum in 2024. Check back in Spring 2025 to learn about the next sailing season for the Museum’s historic 1885 schooner Pioneer or the 1930 tugboat W.O. Decker. To be the first to learn about the new season, join the Seaport Museum’s mailing list.

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