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Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT

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Mystic Seaport Museum

Board an 1841 whaleship, walk a recreated 19th-century seaport village and watch shipwrights restore wooden boats.

75 Greenmanville Ave · Mystic, CT

About Mystic Seaport Museum

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.

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  • #historic ships
  • #living history
  • #whaling history
  • #planetarium

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