Mystic Seaport

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Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut is the largest maritime museum in the United States. It is notable for its collection of sailing ships and boats, and for the re-creation of the crafts and fabric of an entire 19th-c

Mystic Seaport consists of more than 60 original historic buildings, most of them rare commercial structures moved to the 19-acre (0.077 km(sup)2(/sup)) site and meticulously restored.

The museum was established in 1929 as the "Marine Historical Association". Its first fame came with the acquisition in 1941 of the Charles W. Morgan, the only surviving wooden sailing whaler. The seaport was one of the first living history museums in the United States, with a collection of buildings and craftsmen to show how work was done.

The seaport now receives about 250,000 visitors each year