100 Things to Do
Museum of the Sea
Jun 12, 2007

The Museum of America and the Sea, known to most people as Mystic Seaport, houses the largest collection of boats and maritime photography in the world in the setting of a 19th Century seaport village, where visitors can see demonstrations of trades such as blacksmithing or sing along with a Mystic Seaport chantey man.  The village Tavern serves meals appropriate to its setting and the Buckingham-Hall House has fireplace/open hearth cooking demonstrations. The most famous of Mystic Seaport’s vessels on site is the Charles W. Morgan, a whaler built in 1841 and restored and preserved by the seaport. Mystic was the site for the building of the Freedom Schooner Amistad, launched in 2000. There’s a planetarium, as well as the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. At the Boathouse, visitors may rent rowboats or small sailboats to take out on the Mystic River. The coal-fired steamboat Sabino operates during summer. Seaport admission is $17.50; $15.50 for seniors and $12 for 6-17-year-olds.