Our City, Our Seaport - South Street Seaport Museum

Campaign to Save the South Street Seaport Museum

This pandemic has dealt our beloved city a terrible blow, the full extent of which is still unclear. As New Yorkers, we have faith that the city will rebound as it has time and again. For a city that constantly reinvents itself, there must—there will—be a bright future.

The time is now. The threat is real. Together we must, we will, save the South Street Seaport Museum.

Interested in getting involved to become an advocate for the South Street Seaport Museum or learning more? Join the campaign by signing up below.

A Letter from Our President and CEO

Read a letter from Captain Jonathan Boulware about the state of the Museum and the Our City, Our Seaport campaign to preserve this historic institution.

Proposed 250 Water Street Project

Read this helpful article written by The New York Times’ highly-regarded architecture critic Michael Kimmelman that painstakingly outlines the decades-long history of the 250 Water Street site and the Seaport Museum. In it, he gives his full support for the plan.

Read the Latest News

Click below to read some of the latest newsletters from our campaign. Want to get campaign updates in your inbox? Text SEAPORTMUSEUM to 22828

Important News About Our Future

A Call for Stories

amNY Op-Ed

View Images from the Museum’s History

Historic schooner Pioneer sails past the Brooklyn Bridge

Schermerhorn Row pre-restoration, ca. 1968, home to the South Street Seaport Museum

The newly restored tugboat W.O. Decker cruising past the seaport district and the Brooklyn Bridge

Canal boat children on a barge at Coenties Slip, ca. 18901915 from the Museum's Thomas W. Kennedy Collection

Schermerhorn Row pre-restoration, ca. 1970, home to the South Street Seaport Museum

The entrance to the Stationers and Printing Office of Bowne & Co. on Water Street

Schermerhorn Row post-restoration, ca. 1985, home to the South Street Seaport Museum

Guests aboard the historic schooner Pioneer helping haul up the main sail

Bowne & Co. 's Art Director and Operation Manager Robert Wilson teaching visitors about the art of letterpress printing

A. A. Lowe Building - Home of the offices of the Seaport Museum

The Museum flagship Wavertree at her berth at Pier 16

Letterpress printers and designers in the back room of Bowne & Co., Stationers, ca. 1985

View of Fletcher Street from Pier 19, ca. 1890-1915, from the Museum's Thomas W. Kennedy Collection

Schermerhorn Row and the visiting vessel Danmark in August 1968

Detail of "View of New York From Brooklyn Heights" 1849

Guests attending a Building Tour in October 2018 as part of Archtober

Schermerhorn Row pre-restoration, ca. 1968

View of Schermerhorn Row pre-restoration, from the Market Building, ca. 1971

Lightship Ambrose at Pier 16 a few months after her arrival at South Street

A view of the Museum's flagship Wavetree main deck

Nighttime photograph of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy on John Street

Museum signage strewn onto Water Street during Hurricane Sandy

The devastation of Hurricane Sandy inside the Museum's main lobby at 12 Fulton Street

Nighttime photograph of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy on Fulton and Front Streets

Evening photograph of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy on John and South Streers

View of Watts and Hudson Streets, ca. 1904, from the Museum's Thomas W. Kennedy Collection

See What Makes the Museum So Important

Learn about the Museum, the collections, the programs, and the people that make the Seaport Museum “Where New York Begins.”

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