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Mystic Seaport Museum
Mystic Seaport Museum is a museum in Mystic, CT, part of the Mystic & the Connecticut Shore guide. Cost: $25 to $50.
75 Greenmanville Ave · Mystic, CT
Why you should go…
Founded in 1929, Mystic Seaport Museum covers 19 acres and recreates a 19th-century seaport village with more than 60 historic buildings. You can board the Charles W. Morgan, an 1841 whaleship and the last of an American whaling fleet of more than 2,700 vessels. Interpreters demonstrate trades in shops such as the cooperage and printing office, and the preservation shipyard restores historic vessels with traditional tools. There is also a planetarium and cruises on the 1908 steamboat Sabino.
- #maritime museum
- #historic ships
- #living history
- #whaling history
- #planetarium
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