News From the Collections

Along with a New Year, comes a new set of hours that we will be open to the public. Beginning Wednesday, January 5th, the new hours are: Wed...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Mystic Seaport A number of objects belonging to Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and numerous o...

No, this is not part of the skeletal remains of some maritime ghoul, but something far more scary to those that have had experience with suc...

Mystic Seaport selected Patrick O'Brien's "Great White Fleet in the Straits of Magellan" as its Museum Purchase Award at t...

While visiting a flea market or a small antiques shop off in the middle of nowhere, you come across a hidden treasure...an old walrus tusk ...

Flying the Colors is Mystic Seaport's newest book about the unseen treasures of nineteenth-century American Marine Art. America has ...

Mystic Seaport recently published a 2nd edition of Rudolph J. Schaefer's comprehensive book, J. E. Buttersworth: 19th-Century Marine Pa...