Mariners' Museum

Mariners' Museum

      museum in Newport News, Virginia, founded in 1930 by the author Archer M. Huntington and his wife, Anna, and devoted to the “culture of the sea.” Its notable collections include ship models and ornaments and examples of sailors' crafts. In 1986 the museum acquired the entire collection of boatbuilding photographs and records of the Chris-Craft Boat Company.

      The museum's collections include more than 35,000 two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces and a library containing 75,000 volumes, 5,000 maps and charts, and 650,000 photographs. It also contains native boats and canoes, relics of sunken warships, and marine coins, medals, and postage stamps.

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