Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby Dick

A Natural History of Moby Dick Arguably the greatest sea novel ever written, Moby-Dick serves as an ideal benchmark to examine how Americans in the 1850s understood the marine biology and oceanography of the deep sea. No previous reading of…

Introduction to Charts and Basic Navigation: Part 2

Collections Corner Join our Yachts on Exhibit Operations Coordinator, Nicholas Alley, to learn the fundamentals of finding your location using maritime charts and traditional tools. We will cover different types of charts, plotting tools, and how to use a compass…

Tool Sharpening, Part 4 – Virtual Learning

Virtual Learning Join Museum Shipwright Chris Sanders to explore the fundamentals of sharpening different hand tools. In this episode, the focus will be cabinet scrapers and saws. Age Recommendation: High School – Adult