Mystic Seaport Museum

The Largest Maritime Museum In The United States, On 19 Acres Of The Mystic River; Home Of The Charles W. Morgan, The Last Wooden Whaleship In The World And A National Historic Landmark · Mystic, Connecticut

Mystic Seaport is nineteen acres of the Mystic River bank laid out as a nineteenth century seafaring village, with more than sixty buildings moved here from around New England and re-erected: a chapel, a shipsmith, a cooperage, a ropewalk, a printing office and a tavern among them. Four ships are National Historic Landmarks and the one everyone comes for is the Charles W. Morgan, launched in 1841 and the last wooden whaleship left anywhere in the world - she sailed again in 2014 after a five-year restoration, aged 173. The museum also runs a working preservation shipyard where you watch the restoration happening rather than read about it, and holds one of the largest maritime collections in the country. It is the largest maritime museum in the United States and comfortably Connecticut's principal attraction. Allow far more time than the word museum suggests: this is nineteen acres and sixty buildings, and visitors who budget two hours routinely need five.

75 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, Mystic, Connecticut, 06355, United States

Open most days through the middle of the day and afternoon, with longer hours in summer and a reduced winter schedule in which parts of the village close and some buildings are shut entirely. It closes on a small number of major holidays. Which ships are boardable changes with restoration work and season. Demonstrations in the shipsmith, cooperage and rigging loft run to a daily schedule posted at the gate.

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