The Seaport Museum’s latest exhibition Maritime City, 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 Seaport 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.
Scroll down to see press highlights that share insight into the impressive exhibition.
Maritime City on Television
Taking to the Streets, Christal Young for Good Day New York
New South Street Seaport Museum exhibit showcases history on the waterfront, Roger Clark for NY1
New exhibition opens up at NYC museum, Cory McGinnis for Pix11
Maritime City on the Radio
Get Connected, Nina del Rio
All Of It, Allison Stewart
Maritime City in Articles
Opening: Maritime History on Display, Including the 1868 Building Housing It, Carl Glassman for The Tribeca Trib
The Critic’s Notebook, James Panero for The New Criterion
In New York, Beyer Blinder Belle completes South Street Seaport Museum, with exhibition design by Marvel, Daniel Jonas Roche for The Architect’s Newspaper
South Street Seaport Museum Announces New Exhibition: “Maritime City,” All Arts
NYC Show Listings, Brooklyn Vegan
New Exhibition: Maritime City, Do NYC
Recovery Pivots Toward Renaissance, The Broadsheet
Beyer Blinder Belle Restores South Street Seaport Museum, AIA New York
About Maritime City
The Seaport Museum’s latest exhibition Maritime City highlights how New York City, as we know it today, arose from the sea. Throughout the extensive three-floor exhibition, 540 deliberately-selected objects on view underscore how the city’s identity as a global capital of culture and finance is rooted in its origins as a seaport. By sharing the material culture of New York and its people, the exhibition highlights stories of the working class people employed by ships, shipping lines, and other local industries throughout history, as well as the emigrant workers and immigrant families that came through the port as their first stop in America.
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