Location: Old Sturbridge Village (1 Old Sturbridge Village Rd. Sturbridge, MA) (about an hour and half west of Boston and 45 minutes east of Springfield, MA) Price: Adults: $22 | Youth ages 4 –12: $14 | Children 3 and under: Free (there are discounts if you’re in the military ...
WEST COAST CLOCK AND WATCH MUSEUM 55 N SUMMIT RD, TACOMA, WA, 98406-9840 17.445 VASHON MAURY ISLAND HERITAGE MUSEUM PO BOX 723, VASHON, WA, 98070-0723 17.471 SEATTLE WORLD PERCUSSION SOCIETY 12729 LAKE CITY WAY NE, SEATTLE, WA, 98125-4426 17.516 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 19525 SE 54...
HISTORIC SHIPS MEMORIAL AT PACIFIC SQUARE PO BOX 361, VALLEJO, CA, 94590-0036 19.601 OPEN LIBRARY OF RICHMOND 300 FUNSTON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 94118-2116 19.633 CULTURAL HERITAGE IMAGING 2325 3RD STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 94107 19.758 PACIFIC PINBALL MUSEUM 1029 CENTRAL AVE, ALAMEDA, CA...
•The mysterious fate of Sir John Franklin and his 128 man crew – last seen in Baffin Bay in July, 1845, as they sailed in search of the North-West Passage – is the subject of a new landmark exhibition opening at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich tomorrow.Death In The Ice:...
Or if a piece of Spanish history interests you, follow the story of ‘La Trinidad Valencera’. One of the largest ships in the Spanish Armada, it sank off the Donegal coast in 1558 and lay on the seabed until 1971 when the wreck was discovered by divers from the City of Derry Sub-Aq...
In 2012, she became a US Navy museum ship, the only naval museum on the West Coast to feature a capital ship that saw action in World War II.Interesting fact: The navy’s history has seen four different ships that have had the name IOWA, including a new Virginia-Class submarine. How ...
The AP stated New Bedford exported "vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s" as "workers packed the docks, unloading casks of oil that had been extracted at sea from whale carcasses and brought in by a fleet of hundreds of whaling ships." ...
However the seaport museum was very interesting with different ships that you could go onboard and also areas you could visit where they are being restored. Also there are buildings showing the history of the area , and also today there was a large number of vintage m...
There’s an exhibit where you can use a sextant to navigate by stars, a remote controlled tugboat, and a simulator allowing you to pilot ships through the harbor, among many others. The exhibits seem targeted a little towards children, but many are sop...
To this day, it remains the largest marine tragedy in the history of the Pacific Northwest. The timing of the disaster had the vessel dubbed the “Unknown Titanic of the West Coast,” the museum’s volunteer librarian Judy Thompson explained. The delivery of the bodies to Vancouver ...