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Maria Mitchell: Daughter of an Unusual Island and Family, with Jascin Leonardo Finger of the Maria Mitchell Association
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAIt’s Women’s History Month! Learn more about America’s first woman astronomer, Maria Mitchell, and the role she played in astronomy, […]
Quest for Cod
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAUsing models, photos, diagrams, nautical charts, and personal stories, this exhibit follows two hundred years of commercial fishing in Provincetown […]
The Whaling Port of Provincetown, 1800-1925
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAProvincetown was once the third most important whaling port in the country, after New Bedford and Nantucket. This exhibit illustrates […]
The 19th Century’s Perfect Storm: The Portland Gale of 1898
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAThe Portland Gale was a massive storm that struck the coast of New England in late November of 1898. With […]
Hyannis Port Railroad Wharf: 1854-1937
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAPrior to the Railroad Wharf in Hyannis Port, the nearest port for ships travelling to and from Nantucket was New […]
Cape Cod and the Slave Trade, with Dr. Meadow Dibble of the Atlantic Black Box
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAOn August 1, 1819, a majestic Maine-built ship docked at Boston’s Long Wharf, completing a nearly year-long voyage to West […]
Wampum Belts and the Law of the Land
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAJoin the Cape Cod Maritime Museum for a look at wampum as one of the original mechanisms of Native legal […]
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAMaritime escape episodes figure prominently in the majority of North American fugitive slave accounts. While past scholarship on the Underground […]
Walk in the Water: The Golden Age of Steamboat Travel
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAPrior to the early 1800’s, there was little in the way of comfortable and fast transportation between the cities of […]
Sea Turtle Rescue, with Bob Prescott of Mass Audubon
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAEach fall hundreds of cold-stunned, juvenile sea turtles strand on Cape Cod Bay beaches. Learn about why this happens, Mass […]
Cape Cod’s Marine Food Webs, by Agnes Mittermayr of the Center for Coastal Studies
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MALife is all connected, each organism playing its part in huge, complex food webs. At the center of each web […]
River Herring: Bringing the Ocean to New England’s Freshwater, by Abigail Archer
Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South Street, Hyannis, MAJoin the Cape Cod Maritime Museum to hear about the fascinating lives of river herring, and how they are part […]