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Whydah Pirate Museum, West Yarmouth, MA
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Whydah Pirate Museum

Whydah Pirate Museum is a museum in West Yarmouth, MA, part of the Cape Cod guide. Cost: under $25.

674 Route 28, West Yarmouth · West Yarmouth, MA

Why you should go…

In 1717 the pirate ship Whydah went down off Wellfleet with Black Sam Bellamy and a fortune in plunder; in 1984 explorer Barry Clifford found her. This museum displays the genuine artifacts, cannons, pieces of eight, jewelry, even the ship's bell, alongside a working conservation lab where new finds are cleaned before your eyes. Kids leave wanting to be marine archaeologists, and honestly, so do the adults.

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What's around here?

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