News From the Collections

  The Little Sea Torch,  published in London in 1801, was a translation of a French book of sailing directions entitled Le Petit Flambeau de...

The Museum recently acquired a logbook of the Boston ship IDA from 1821 to 1823. The IDA was built in Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1816, and ...

No, this has nothing to do with sweet ol’ granny sitting for her family portrait. Rather it has everything to do with taking advantage of n...

Growing up in a small town and attending a two-room schoolhouse as a child, I was fortunate to have some interesting, and interested, teach...

A recent inquiry into the life of Massachusetts mariner Isaac Hinckley once again brought to light his charming watercolor of the launch of ...

For the last five years or so, Mystic Seaport has been the temporary home for one of the most amazing murals ever painted. When Benjamin Rus...

On March 12 th , 1904, Andrew Carnegie signed a Deed of Trust in New York City to create the Carnegie Hero Fund to recognize deeds of civil...