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  Research Page of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Museum conducts research to develop exhibits, to document its collection and to answer public enquiries.
The Museum offers annual research grants for marine history and works with a number of research associates to explore topics of mutual interest.
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic has a reference library with books and periodicals relating to marine history as well as vertical files and a knowledgable staff.
museum.gov.ns.ca /mma/research/research.html   (600 words)

  
  Maritime museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on seas and lakes.
A naval museum focuses on navies and military use of the sea.
Maritime and Naval Museums in Britain and Ireland
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maritime_museum   (316 words)

  
 Maritime Museum of the Atlantic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a maritime museum located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.
It is the oldest and largest maritime museum in Canada.
The World War II Flower-class corvette Sackville of the Royal Canadian Navy is docked adjacent to the Museum during the summer season, as is Bluenose II when she is in port.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maritime_Museum_of_the_Atlantic   (140 words)

  
 canada maritime museums - maritime museum websites
Mariners' Park Museum: (ONT) Mariners' Park Museum, at Mariners' Lighthouse Park overlooking South Bay, Prince Edward County, is a significant marine museum in the Province of Ontario.
Maritime Museum of British Columbia: (BRITISH COLUMBIA) Bastion Square in Victoria, B.C., is the old courts building, now the maritime museums with a wide variety of exhibits and displays about the maritime history of Canada in the Pacific Northwest.
Muskoka Lakes Museum: (ONTARIO) On September 9th, 1961, the Port Carling Historical Society was born at the cottage of Marion Catto on the Indian River, and with it were planted the seeds of Mrs.
www.maritimemuseums.net /canada.html   (4430 words)

  
 Maritime Museums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
North Carolina Maritime Museum (NCMM) in Beaufort, North Carolina, is a remarkable museum in a beautiful and historic small town.
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and the Fisherman's Life Museum are both members of the Nova Scotia Museum and are located in Nova Scotia.
The Naval Museum of Alberta in Calgary, Alberta.
ils.unc.edu /maritime/museum.html   (1012 words)

  
 Maritime Museums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is a new museum on the bay in Santa Barbara.
Tuckerton Seaport is a brand-new museum in Tuckerton, New Jersey, "dedicated to preserving, presenting and interpreting the environment and maritime history of the Jersey Shore and the unique contributions of the Baymen."
Maritime Industry Museum at Fort Schuyler, at the SUNY Maritime College in The Bronx, New York.
ils.unc.edu /maritime/museum.shtml   (1229 words)

  
 Underwater Archaeology - Museums, Shipwrecks, and Projects
The museum of the Mary Rose (Henry VIII's great ship, which sank in 1545 and was raised in 1982 for conservation at Portsmouth) has recently developed a WWW page.
This museum is devoted to the Vasa, a 1628 warship.
Be sure to visit their ambitious database, maritime archaeological excavations of the world.
www.pophaus.com /underwater/museums.html   (1069 words)

  
 Maritime, Type, Museums, Visual Arts, Performing Arts at World Wide Arts Resources
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Maritime Museum of the Atlantic The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is the marine history division of the Nova Scotia Museum.
In October 1994,the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum was formed by a group of sailing, diving and marine enthusiasts who recognized the opportunity to establish a testament to the rich maritime history of the Santa Barbara Channel.
The Southport Maritime Museum The Southport Maritime Museum The Southport Maritime Museum houses a collection of memorabilia pertaining to the vast nautical history of 'The Lower Cape Fear' area of southeastern North Carolina.
wwar.com /categories/Museums/Type/Maritime/index1.html   (740 words)

  
 Titanic ~ Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Exhibits
Titanic ~ Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Exhibits
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic holds 20 artifacts and dozens of photographs, some of which have never previously been published or displayed.
Donated to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic by acquaintances of John Sage.
titanic.gov.ns.ca /museum.html   (670 words)

  
 Maritime and Naval Museums: Canada
The museum, which is housed in a building dating from 1899, houses the largest collection of ship models in Canada.
Attached to the museum is the steam tug Ned Hanlan (1932).
The Bernier Maritime Museum, which was founded in 1968, is located in a convent built in 1877 and named for Captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier, Arctic navigator and native son.
www.bruzelius.info /Nautica/Museums/MMNACA.html   (644 words)

  
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In the midst of all the capitalism, there is a museum on the maritime history of Bermuda, which is, given the geography of Bermuda, a history of Bermuda itself.
Both museum vessels are in the Pirita port outside Tallinn, while the museum itself is at the north end of town in a 15th century cannon tower called Paks Magareeta, or Fat Margaret.
Museum is housed in the former residence of the Admiral of the Fleet.
www.bb62museum.org /wrldnmus.html   (4992 words)

  
 Maritime Museum Links
This Key West, FL museum has a wide range of artifacts, from gold and silver bars; over 4,000 silver coins; a gold chalice, known as the "poison cup"; and a six-inch gold cross, set with some of the finest emeralds in the world, to swords, guns, pottery, and personal effects from the 1622 fleet.
With both exhibits and library, it is the principal maritime museum on the Pacific Coast of Canada.
This museum is the island’s largest and most-visited attraction and custodian of Bermuda’s fascinating maritime tradition.
www.hal-pc.org /~nugent/museum.html   (547 words)

  
 Arts & Leisure: Woebegone Museum (Memphis Flyer . 10-12-98)
Conlin developed the Titanic exhibit for the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic when the museum opened in 1981, and expanded it in time for the film’s release.
The museum and three cemeteries in Halifax provide rich detail about the lives of those who died and those who pulled their bodies from the North Atlantic.
The victims, the recovery of the bodies, and the wooden artifacts such as a recovered deck chair or part of a staircase are the heart of the exhibit, Conlin explains.
www.weeklywire.com /ww/10-12-98/memphis_trvl.html   (983 words)

  
 Maritime Museum of the Atlantic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A visit to Halifax would not be complete without checking out the very interesting exhibits of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
The Museum hosts a very interesting exhibit regarding the doomed passenger liner titled Titanic: The Unsinkable Ship and Halifax, which includes one of the few intact deck chairs.
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is part of the Nova Scotia Museum system.
www.mikecampbell.net /maritimemuseum.htm   (284 words)

  
 National Maritime Museum
The Museum will mark this year with a range of events including film, poetry, music, conferences, discussion and specially tailored family activities.
This international conference draws together a range of academics and curators from national and international institutions to consider the issues surrounding art collecting and nationhood across a variety of locations and cultures.
Friday 27 April 2007 was the 70th anniversary of the public opening of the National Maritime Museum by King George VI in 1937. View photographs of the opening from the Museum's archives.
www.nmm.ac.uk   (262 words)

  
 Canadian Genealogy and History Links - Atlantic Provinces
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Specializing in marine history of Atlantic Canada.
Maritime History Archive Collects and preserves original documents and copies of documents relating to the history of sea based activities in the North Atlantic region.
Clan Baird Society of Atlantic Canada The Society was formed in 1983 to promote the Clan in Atlantic Canada and to encourage Bairds in the region to take pride in their heritage.
www.islandnet.com /~jveinot/cghl/atlantic-provinces.html   (932 words)

  
 Resource Central - Maritime - Maritime Museums
Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the maritime heritage of Puget Sound and the Northwest Coast, and to the development of maritime-based educational programs and opportunities for the broad community
The Mariners' Museum is one of the largest and most comprehensive maritime history museums in the world.
The Mission of the Baltimore Maritime Museum is to preserve, exhibit and interpret the four National Historic Landmarks and associated artifacts for the purpose of public enrichment, education, historic preservation and historic research
www.resourcehelp.com /marine_museum.htm   (292 words)

  
 Ocean Waves - Royal Canadian Navy Heritage - The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is the marine history division of the Nova Scotia Museum a family of 27 museums operated by the Province of Nova Scotia.
The Historic Dockyard and Chatham Maritime Reach Finals of the Deputy Prime M...
Chatham Historic Dockyard and Chatham Maritime have celebrated reaching the finals of The Deputy Prime Minister's Sustainable Communities Award; just 20 years after the closure of the Royal Dockyard at Chatham, Kent threatened to plunge the area into an economic crisis from which it might never have recovered.
www.royal-navy.org /rcn/content/view/8/6   (275 words)

  
 North Carolina Maritime Museum - Southport Branch
The North Carolina Maritime Museum's Southport branch houses a collection of memorabilia pertaining to the vast nautical history of the "Lower Cape Fear" area of southeastern North Carolina.
A local net expert has made a 9' model of a shrimp-boat net for our museum, complete with "doors." If he's in the museum while you are visiting, he'll be glad to show you how to knit a net...
Learn about hurricanes and listen to the weather forecast on marine radio; when storms are present in the Atlantic, we will be tracking them on a hurricane chart...
www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/maritime/branches/southport_default.htm   (468 words)

  
 Explore Nova Scotia Attractions - Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is the oldest and largest Maritime Museum in Canada.
The Museum is a valuable historical, cultural and educational institution.
Visitors are introduced to the age of steamships, local small craft, the Royal Canadian and Merchant Navies, World War II convoys and The Battle of the Atlantic, the Halifax Explosion of 1917, and Nova Scotia's role in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster.
www.explorenovascotia.com /attractions/index.cfm?id=28   (181 words)

  
 Titanic-Titanic.com :: View topic - Maritime Museum of the Atlantic - Halifax
One thing that I never knew about before but learned at the museum was that the sailors who found wooden wreckage from the ship took that wreckage and carved it into different items such as cribbage boards, and picture frames.
For anyone who loves Titanic a visit to the Maritim Museum of the Atlantic is a trip that you must make at least once in your life.
Not only is the museum and the artifacts extremely touching and poignant (especially when tied in with the cemeteries and the fact that Halifax is where the bodies were taken to).
www.titanic-titanic.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1073   (667 words)

  
 The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic - Museums International Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
The Halifax Maritime museum is situated near the harbour in the centre of Halifax.
It is a large museum with a very large number of exhibits - a must for any sailors out there.
They have all sorts of exhibits ranging from painted figureheads from shipwrecks and full-scale boats, many of which are from the local region.
dooyoo.co.uk /museums-international/the-maritime-museum-of-the-atlantic   (249 words)

  
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My present research interests include primary production (at the level of the single cell and as well as the entire phytoplankton assemblage); photosynthetic physiology as well as phytoplankton physiology in general; biological optics; and ocean observations using in-situ optics and remote sensing.
I have participated in a number of cruises in both the north Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
My general area of interest is the Atlantic community during the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries, especially North America and the Caribbean.
www.dmc.maine.edu /research.html   (2320 words)

  
 Maritime Museum of the Atlantic | Halifax Sights & Activities | Fodor's Online Travel Guide
At the next wharf (summer only) is Canada's naval memorial, HMCS Sackville, the sole survivor of a fleet that escorted convoys of ships from Halifax to England during World War II.
The museum has a permanent exhibit about the Titanic disaster.
With many victims buried in Halifax, the city was, in a sense, the ship's final destination.
www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=halifax@69&cur_section=sig&property_id=90611   (263 words)

  
 Maritime Museum of the Atlantic On Destination: Nova Scotia
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic On Destination: Nova Scotia
Maritime history of Atlantic Canada, exhibits on the Navy, convoys, Days of Sail, shipwrecks and lifesaving, the Titanic, the Halifax Explosion, the Age of Steam, and the restored ship chandlery of William Robertson and Son.
The museum also displays Canada''s first hydrographic vessel, CSS Acadia.
www.destination-ns.com /common/property.asp?DirectoryID=21   (100 words)

  
 Transatlantic Slavery
To refer to the Africans who were enslaved only as 'slaves' strips them of their identity.
The Transatlantic Slavery gallery has been so successful that we are planning to expand it, to form a new International Slavery Museum and study centre.
The new museum will open a few weeks later, on 23 August 2007.
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /maritime/slavery/index.asp   (260 words)

  
 The Boat Shop - Marine Museums
Send us email about any museum you would like to see appear here.
old sailboats, boats and yachts in non-profit organizations or museums.
nautical maritime museums, sailing and boating or yachting non-profit.
www.boatmall.com /Museums/1207.htm   (71 words)

  
 Council of American Maritime Museums - CAMM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM) is an organization dedicated to preserving North America's maritime history.
Many of these museums have websites that can be accessed through the list.
Working together, we can promote the preservation of our rich maritime heritage for future generations to explore and enjoy.
councilofamericanmaritimemuseums.org /?ha=1&zshowha=listall&...   (214 words)

  
 Maritime Museum of the Atlantic | Museum/Attraction Review | Halifax | Frommers.com
All visitors to Nova Scotia owe themselves a stop at this standout museum on a prime waterfront location.
The exhibits are involving and well executed, and you'll be astounded at how fast 2 hours can fly by.
Another highlight is the exhibit on the tragic Halifax Explosion of 1917, when two warships collided in Halifax harbor not far from the museum, detonating tons of TNT.
www.frommers.com /destinations/halifax/A9030.html   (373 words)

  
 Public Archives of Nova Scotia C@P Site - RMS Titanic
Altogether, some 337 bodies were plucked from the Atlantic, with the CGS Montmagny, the SS Algerine, the RMS Oceanic and the SS Ilford also assisting.
Discovery of the wreck in 1985 and the huge international success of the 1997 film have guaranteed that although the great liner lies at the bottom of the North Atlantic, she sails on forever in our collective imagination.
Find out more about the city's Titanic heritage and about the popular exhibit onsite at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, by visiting http://titanic.gov.ns.ca/.
www.gov.ns.ca /nsarm/cap/titanic   (955 words)

  
 Maritime Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Founded in 1929, Mystic Seaport is America's leading maritime museum, housing the largest collections of boats (nearly 500) and nautical photography (over one million images) in the world.
Situated on Oslo’s waterfront the museum covers all aspects of Norway’s seafaring history
Museum contains five galleries of models, photos and paintings, medals and personal belongings of sailors from Lord Nelson to cabin boys
www.maritime-life.net /NaE_mFr.asp   (288 words)

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