Browsing the "Mystic Seaport Museum" Tag

Passing Time with Scrimshaw

August 10th, 2016

To pass the time at sea, 19th-century sailors took up the art of scrimshaw. With whatever tools were available, they


VIDEO: Maintaining History

July 27th, 2016

The all-but-extinct art of wooden shipbuilding and maintenance is alive and well in the Henry B. DuPont Preservation Shipyard at



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