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Maritime Massachusetts

Massachusetts
Charlestown
USS Constitution
Charlestown Navy Yard
Charlestown MA 02129
Phone 617 426-1812
Web Site www.navy.mil/homepages/constitution/index.htm
Description
Type of Resource Specialty Museum
Primary Focus   Maritime
Building Type   Ship

  MA
  Edgartown
  Vineyard Museum
  59 School Street
  Edgartown  MA  02539     
  Phone  508 627-4441
  Web Site  http://www.marthasvineyardhistory.org/aboutus.html
  Alt Web  http://www.capecodchamber.org/htm/attractions/marthas.htm
  Description  society owns and operates several lighthouses as well as museum in                         historic house
  Type of Resource  Museum
  Primary Focus  Maritime
  Building Type  Lighthouse
  Industry /Profession  Whaling
  Collection A-F  Costumes
  Collection G-M  Models
  Collection N-Z  Scrimshaw
  Research /Reading  Archives
  Era      1765
  Owner/Operator:  Martha's Vineyard Historical Society
  New or Updated:  09/06/2003

  MA
  Essex
  Essex Shipbuilding Museum
  66 Main Street
  Essex  MA  01929  
  Phone  978 768-7541
  Web Site  http://www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org/
  Description  multiple buildings on site, museum in school, shipyard built 300 vessels
  Type of Resource  Specialty Museum
  Primary Focus  Maritime
  Building Type  Transportation
  New or Updated:  09/10/2003

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  Fall River

  Battleship Cove

  Five Water Street

  PO Box 111

  Fall River  MA   02722    

  Phone  508 678-1100

  Web Site www.battleshipcove.org

  E-mail  mailto:battleship@battleshipcove.org

  Description  numerous WWII ships and smaller craft

  Type of Resource  Specialty Museum

  Primary Focus  Maritime

  Building Type Ship

  Industry /Profession Navy

  New or Updated:  6/22/2007

Marine Museum at Fall River
70 Water Street
Fall River MA 02721
Phone 508 674-3533
Web Site www.marinemuseum.org
Description models, exhibits on luxury liners, Titanic exhibit, located in restored machine shop
Type of Resource Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Maritime
Collection G-M Models
Research/Reading Library

  MA

  Hull

  Hull Lifesaving Museum

  1117 Nantasket Ave

  Hull  MA  02045    

  Phone   781 925-5433

  Web Site http://www.lifesavingmuseum.org/

  E-mail   mailto:lifesavingmuseum@comcast.net

  Description  former life saving station furnished and equipped with surfboat,

                    equipment, stories of Boston Harbor shipwrecks and rescues, also

                    operated Windmill Point Boathouse  & Seaport Boathouse

  Type of Resource  Specialty Museum

  Primary Focus  Maritime

  Industry /Profession Lifesaving

  Era 1889

  New or Updated:  7/24/2006

  MA
  Indian Orchard
  The Titanic Museum
  208 Main Street
  Indian Orchard   MA   01151  
  Phone   413 543-4770
  Web Site  http://www.titanic1.org/
  E-mail  mailto:titanicinfo@titanichistoricalsociety.org
  Description  memorabilia of most famous shipwreck of modern times
  Type of Resource   Specialty Museum
  Primary Focus  Maritime
  Owner/Operator:  Titanic Historical Society
  New or Updated:    2/10/2004

  MA
  Nantucket
  Egan Institute of Maritime Studies
  The Coffin School
  4 Winter Street
  Nantucket              MA   03554    
  Phone   508 228-2505
  Web Site  http://www.eganinstitute.com/
  E-mail  mailto:egan@eganinstitute.com
  Description  research, education, nautical training, located within Coffin School
  Type of Resource   Specialty Museum
  Primary Focus  Maritime
  Building Type   Schoolhouse
  Research /Reading  Library
  Era  1854
  New or Updated:   12/4/2003

  MA

  New Bedford

  New Bedford Whaling Museum

  18 Johnny Cake Hill

  New Bedford  MA   02740    

  Phone   508 997-0046

  Web Site  www.whalingmuseum.org

  Description  all about whaling, Whalers, and the places they went

  Type of Resource  Specialty Museum

  Primary Focus  Maritime

  Industry /Profession Whaling

  Collection  Photography

  Research   Library

  Owner/Operator:  Old Dartmouth Historical Society

  New or Updated:  4/22/2006
 

  MA

  New Bedford

  Kendall Whaling Museum

  New Bedford  MA

  Web Site http://www.whalingmuseum.org/kendall/about/index_ab.html

  Alt Web http://www.archaeology.org/0211/reviews/whaling.html

  Description  Merged with New Bedford Whaling Museum

  Type of Resource   Specialty Museum

  Primary Focus  Maritime

  Industry /Profession Whaling

  Owner/Operator:  New Bedford Whaling Museum

  New or Updated:  7/14/2006

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  MA

  Yarmouth Port

  Captain Bangs Hallet House

  11 Strawberry Lane

  MAIL PO Box 11

  Yarmouth Port  MA    02675    

  Phone  508 362-3021

  Web Site http://www.hsoy.org/historic/hallethouse.htm

  E-mail   mailto:info@hsoy.org

  Description  headquarters of active society, furnished as 19th century sea captain's

  Type of Resource   House Museum

  Primary Focus  Maritime

  Research  Library

  Owner/Operator:  Historical Society of Old Yarmouth

  New or Updated:  6/21/2007