Mystic Seaport Museum
F2. Maritime Culture, Heritage, Archaeology, Art and MuseumsDefinition
Connecticut museum and historic shipyard.
The Museum of America and the Sea at Mystic, Connecticut, founded in 1929 as the Marine Historical Association. It is the largest maritime museum in the United States, a recreated 19th-century seafaring village with a working preservation shipyard, the Henry B. duPont shipyard. Its flagship holding is the Charles W. Morgan, an 1841 wooden whaleship and the last surviving wooden whaler in the world, a National Historic Landmark.
Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut, founded 1929; the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan.