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Maritime City Exhibit to Open at South Street Seaport Museum
March 8, 2025, 3:24.29 pm ET

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The South Street Seaport Museum’s new exhibition, “Maritime City,” will open to the public on March 12. It will showcase 540 deliberately selected objects from the Museum’s collections of 80,000 works of art, historical artifacts, and archival records, representing a wide range of time periods, themes, and materials.

The exhibition spans the first three floors of A.A. Thomson & Co. building -- the newly-renovated, historic 1868 warehouse, located at 213 Water Street – which has been recognized for its architectural significance within the South Street Seaport Historic District.

Visitors will discover how the waterways, people, and industries of the Greater New York area — including all the boroughs, Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley — led to the creation of a truly diverse city. By sharing the material culture of New York and its people, the objects on display highlight stories of the working-class people employed by ships, shipping lines, and other local industries throughout history, as well as the emigrant workers and immigrant families that came through the port as their first stop in America.

The opening of “Maritime City” and the reopening of the A.A. Thomson & Co. building will be accompanied by a range of dynamic public programs designed to invite visitors of all ages to make a deeper connection to New York’s rich maritime heritage.

For more information, visit www.seaportmuseum.org



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