Mystic Seaport Marine Museum
Mystic Seaport Museum is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, and the largest in the United States. Its 19-acre site holds a collection of ships and boats and a re-creation of a 19th-century seaport village consisting of more than 60 historic buildings, including many rare commercial structures that were moved to the site and meticulously restored.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Theme park
- Description: maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut
- Also known as: “Mystic Seaport”, “Mystic Seaport Museum”, “Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea”, and “mysticseaport.org”
- Address: 75 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, CT 06355
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mystic Museum of Art and Mystic River Bascule Bridge.
Mystic Museum of Art
Museum
Mystic Museum of Art is a museum of American art at 9 Water Street in Mystic, Connecticut. The Mystic Art Association, an organization of artists who painted in the seacoast town, was founded by Charles Harold Davis in 1913. Mystic Museum of Art is situated 3,500 feet southwest of Mystic Seaport Marine Museum.
Mystic River Bascule Bridge
Bridge
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The Mystic River Bascule Bridge is a bascule bridge spanning the Mystic River in Mystic, Connecticut in the United States. It carries vehicle and foot traffic directly into the tourist district of town via 33 ft-wide Main Street. Mystic River Bascule Bridge is situated 2,600 feet southwest of Mystic Seaport Marine Museum.
Mystic station
Railway station
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Mystic station is an intercity train station on the Northeast Corridor, located off Roosevelt Avenue east of downtown Mystic, Connecticut. It is served by a limited number of trains on Amtrak's Northeast Regional service, with three to five daily trains in each direction. Mystic station is situated 3,900 feet south of Mystic Seaport Marine Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rossie Velvet Mill Historic District and Mystic.
Rossie Velvet Mill Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Rossie Velvet Mill Historic District is located in the village of Mystic in Stonington, Connecticut. Its main focus is the former Rossie Velvet Mill, a large brick industrial facility on the east side of Greenmanville Avenue that is now a research center for the nearby Mystic Seaport Museum.
Mystic
Mystic is a village that is partly in Groton and partly in Stonington in Connecticut. It is a major tourist destination.
Mystic Bridge Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Mystic Bridge Historic District is a historic district in the village of Mystic, Connecticut on the Stonington side of the Mystic River. It includes the Mystic Seaport Museum, whose grounds and floating vessels represent the area's history, and the 1924 Mystic River Bascule Bridge.
Mystic Seaport Marine Museum
Latitude
41.36136° or 41° 21′ 41″ northLongitude
-71.96504° or 71° 57′ 54″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87HC926M+GXOpenStreetMap ID
way 967954262OpenStreetMap feature
historic=maritimeOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=theme_parkGeoNames ID
4839162Wikidata ID
Q1890082
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Russian—“Mystic Seaport Marine Museum” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Mystic Seaport”
- Dutch: “Mystic Seaport”
- French: “Mystic Seaport”
- German: “Mystic Seaport”
- Polish: “Mystic Seaport”
- Russian: “Морской порт Мистик”
- Russian: “Музей Америки и моря”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mystic Seaport Marine Museum”. Photo: Joethon, Public domain.