Mystic Seaport Museum

Mystic Seaport will catalog, digitally photograph, and place a group of 4,950 objects and photographs into secure storage. The items were selected to support an online learning project for students and teachers, and programming associated with whaling and the restoration and planned voyage of the whaleship Charles W. Morgan, a National Historic Landmark. The museum will purchase supplies and hire a cataloger to help staff create detailed collection database records, and store the objects in its collections research center for preservation and physical access. Materials include historic painting, prints, advertising, postcards, posters, and photographs, along with a variety of three-dimensional objects, spanning more than two centuries of the American maritime experience. The records and images will be available to worldwide audiences online to support research, exhibit and program development, publications, and teacher professional development.