This Week
Included with General Admission
Wednesday–Sunday
Pay What You Wish
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.
Update
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.
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 Since the project started, 50 historical documents have been transcribed, and volunteers have made it possible to identify the contents of historical documents that tell a bigger story about the Port of New York and its connections to the rest of the world.
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.