How are you celebrating Independence Day weekend? Add a visit to the Museum to your list because we are re-opening some of our favorite indoor exhibit buildings, including Key to Liberty: The American Revolution on Lake Champlain! Select indoor exhibits will be open starting this Friday for the rest of the season. Join us this weekend and learn about how Lake Champlain was involved in the Revolutionary War and our nation’s independence, explore Abenaki art and culture, walk through the evolution of small boats in the Champlain Valley, and more. Remember, admission is free for everyone in your group!

Discover the Penobscot Marine Museum through special crafts and activities. These weekly programs are designed for children and their families to have fun at the museum and with the museum from home. Each will explore a different topic and will include a craft to take home!

Photography July 7th11am on Facebook Live (free)
10am-5pm in person (Included with museum admission)
Find out more here.
Life at Sea July 14th11am on Facebook Live (free)
10am-5pm in person (Included with museum admission)
Find out more here.
Wild Weather July 21st11am on Facebook Live (free)
10am-5pm in person (Included with museum admission)
Find out more here.
All Things Maine July 28th11am on Facebook Live (free)
10am-5pm in person (Included with museum admission)
Find out more here.

With the port of Los Angeles’ strong legacy  of commercial fishing , it may be surprising to realize that there was a time when consumers were leery of eating fish from a can. In the latest edition of the Palos Verdes Pulse, museum director Marifrances Trivelli explains how successful marketing techniques from local canneries made canned tuna a staple of diets across the globe.

The Museum building is temporarily closed until later this year due to construction of the “Town Square”. In the meantime, you can make a virtual voyage from your personal electronic device. Just follow this link to enjoy a 360 virtual tour, made possible by a grant from the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council.

During closure, the museum continues to make its historic photograph collections available online. Visit the website and enjoy rare views of harbor history, along with a few surprises!

On August 8, 2021, as part of its 30th-anniversary activities, the Channel Islands Maritime Museum will be sponsoring a Search & Find Harbor Cruise. Electric boats and dinghies less than 25 feet are invited to participate in this fun “Search & Find” Mission. Participants will enjoy a Museum visit, a harbor cruise with a mission, and the chance to win some great prizes. Pre-registration is required with a $30 donation to the Museum per boat. All proceeds benefit the Channel Islands Maritime Museum programs. Participants can register online at www.cimmvc.org or at the Museum until August 7^th.

“The Museum has always loved its Channel Islands Harbor home,” says CIMM Executive Director Adri Howe. “As a part of our 30th-anniversary celebration, we knew we wanted to feature the beauty of the harbor. This Search and Find Cruise lets us enjoy our home harbor while having a fun-filled day exploring and seeking out the answers to a variety of great clues!”

Day of Event plans and additional information for the cruise can be found at www.cimmvc.org. Participants and boats can register on the Museum website or in person at the Museum which is located at 3900 Bluefin Circle in Oxnard.

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) presents a rare event…two women surfers–author Vicky Heldreich Durand and filmmaker Heather Hudson–will join forces for a book talk about Durand’s Wave Woman: The Life and Struggles of a Surfing Pioneer and about other women surfers that Hudson has celebrated in film. This special book presentation, Q and A session, and signing event will take place in the museum’s Munger Theater on Thursday, July 29, 1921, at 4 pm PDT. Limited seating. Free with Museum admission, but reservations are required and can be made online at reservations@sbmm.org.  SBMM members who attend will get a 25% discount on the purchase of Ms. Durand’s book and a 10% discount on Heather Hudson’s DVDs and posters.

Durand’s book is a biography of her mother, Betty Pembroke Heldreich Winstedt, who was one of the first women surfers in the mid-1950s who competed in big wave competitions and won first place in Lima, Peru. Ms. Hudson’s films, The Women of the Waves and The Women of the Waves 2, premiered at the Museum, are screened in the Munger Theater on Saturdays, and are available for purchase in the SBMM Museum store. 

WHAT: Ding Schoonmaker Day—FREE Admission to Museum Ships
WHEN: Thursday, July 1, 2021; 10am-5pm
WHERE: National Museum of the Great Lakes
1701 Front St., Toledo, OH 43605
ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
The National Museum of the Great Lakes will be holding “Ding Schoonmaker Day” on
July 1st—offering FREE admission to museum vessels with the purchase of
museum-only admission. Ding Schoonmaker Day was developed to be both a
celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the rechristening of the Col. James M.
Schoonmaker Museum Ship and in honor of the late Ding Schoonmaker, the grandson
of the vessel’s namesake who was instrumental in the boat’s restoration.
Please note that pre-order tickets will not be available for July 1, admission will be
walk-in only. In addition, to help increase available visitor opportunities, individuals
interested in remaining later can consider purchasing tickets for our after-hours
History Happy Hour: Sailor Stories, an interactive experience taking place on top of
the Col. James M. Schoonmaker Museum Ship the same day from 5-7:30 p.m.
Additional Information on Ding Schoonmaker Day and History Happy Hour: Sailor
Stories can be found online at nmgl.org
ADMISSION: $11.00 Museum & Ship (Regularly $17.00) – Adults (18-64)
$10.00 Museum & Ship (Regularly $16.00) – Seniors (65+)
$8.00 Museum & Ship (Regularly $14.00) – Youth (6-17)
FREE – Children 5 and under
FREE – GLHS/NMGL Member

The ranks of national marine sanctuaries grew by one this week, as NOAA and the State of Wisconsin announced the designation of America’s 15th marine sanctuary. Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary will encompass 962-square miles of Lake Michigan that contain a multitude of cultural and historical treasures. Among the 36 known historic shipwrecks, the sanctuary includes Wisconsin’s two oldest shipwrecks and several others preserved almost completely intact due to the lake’s icy cold freshwater. Kris Sarri, president and CEO of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, said, “The new sanctuary will foster new opportunities for exploration, education, research, and tourism that benefit Wisconsin’s coastal communities and bring increased attention to the Great Lakes role in the growth of our Nation.”

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WHEN: Saturday, July 3, from 7pm to 10pm (fireworks start around 9:15pm).

WHO’S INVITED: Anyone who wants to reserve a spot and join us on Nantucket/LV-112’s weather deck, with friends and family, to watch a spectacular fireworks display in Boston’s inner harbor. Nantucket/LV-112’s berth has one of the best views of Boston’s vibrant city skyline from the East Boston waterfront.

WHAT TO BRING: Picnic supper, your favorite beverages, beach/lawn chairs to sit on the decks of Nantucket/LV-112, which will remain at the dock. We’ll supply the ship, panoramic views and lively music. The ship’s powerful rotating light beacon will be activated just before the fireworks begin.

 WHY: We want to show you our restoration progress. Plus, this is a fundraising event for LV-112, for which we still have much work to do; visit our Facebook page. The ship’s restoration solely depends on the generous contributions of corporations, private foundations, federal, state and municipal grants, maritime enthusiasts and individuals such as you.

RESERVATIONS: We request a $25 donation per person. Tickets can be purchased by clicking on EventBrite.

WHERE:LV-112 is berthed at the Boston Harbor Shipyard & Marina, 256 Marginal St., East Boston, MA; directions. There’s free street parking next to the shipyard, but it’s limited due to holiday weekend volume.
Best option is public transportation. MBTA Subway: take Blue Line to Maverick Station, walk to shipyard/marina (approx. 15 walk), view walking route. Water Taxi to Boston Harbor Shipyard & Marina, stop #68 view map. For more information, contact: 617.797.0135 or email.

Join us on July 15th for an exciting conversation about marine protection and collaborative conservation! Make sure to visit our Facebook page on Thursday, July 15th for a discussion on cultural heritage protection celebrating the 15th anniversary of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The distinguished panel will include viewpoints from American Samoa, Palau, and Hawaii and speak to how we can simultaneously preserve crucial natural and cultural heritage resources for the benefit of future generations.

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Our ocean contains a diversity of life. Large marine protected areas are an essential tool to conserve marine ecosystems at-scale. In 2000, the establishment of Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve (now Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and World Heritage Site) launched a movement to establish large-scale MPAs to strengthen the management of our global ocean. Today, there are 33 designated large-scale marine protected areas in 16 nations or territories. These MPAs cover a total of 4.6% of the ocean. Notably, many of these MPAs also protect significant cultural resources and engage local communities and Indigenous people in co-management.

The virtual event will take place on Facebook Live at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT / 1:00pm HT through our Blue Beacon Series: Big Ocean Protection Facebook event page.  It can also be streamed on the Foundation’s website. RSVP today on the Facebook event page as “Going” or “Interested” to join us for this can’t-miss event. Mark your calendars – we will see you on July 15th!

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The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is thrilled to announce that Heritage, Craft & Evolution: Surfboard Design 1885 – 1959–an exciting exhibit combining historic replica surfboards, paintings, and photographs of key pioneers of surfing and their beaches–will open at the Museum, one week from today, on Thursday, June 24th and continue through October 30, 2021! We are especially excited because this exhibit is our way of celebrating our full reopening of Thursdays through Tuesdays, 10am-5pm! This exhibit, and the book that accompanies it, is truly unique for the way it tells the stories of California surfing, surfing pioneers, and surfboard design through a multimedia approach, combining art, history, and photography.

Renny Yater, a local resident and pioneer–still to be found on State Street in Santa Barbara shaping boards–is one of three collaborators on the project that led to the exhibit. Renny produced the replicas of historic surfboards, ranging from a 1907 George Freeth plank board to a 1950s-style Hobie balsa board; artist John Comer of Santa Barbara and Baja, whose “This Sacred Land” exhibit opened June 5 at Santa Barbara Fine Art, painted vignettes on each board depicting the beaches where that board was used; and artists Kevin Ancell and Peter St. Pierre faux-painted the boards to “age” and recreate their historic appearance.

This unusual and fascinating exhibit will be of interest to surfers, artists, and those interested in the history of Southern California.