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Maritime Museum: Explore Tall Ships and History
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321 Ratings
Mystic
Embark on a premier maritime history exploration at Mystic Seaport Museum. Climb aboard tall ships, explore a shipyard, stroll through gardens, and dive into life at sea during the golden age of sail.
Embark on a premier maritime history exploration at Mystic Seaport Museum. Climb aboard tall ships, explore a shipyard, stroll through gardens, and dive into life at sea during the golden age of sail.
Duration:
6 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Mystic Seaport Museum - Immerse yourself in 19 acres of America’s maritime history. Mystic Seaport encompasses a world-renowned preservation shipyard, a 19th-century seafaring village, and formal galleries where you’ll find assorted permanent and rotating exhibits that explore America’s relationship with the sea.
- Charles W. Morgan - Visit…
- Mystic Seaport Museum - Immerse yourself in 19 acres of America’s maritime history. Mystic Seaport encompasses a world-renowned preservation shipyard, a 19th-century seafaring village, and formal galleries where you’ll find assorted permanent and rotating exhibits that explore America’s relationship with the sea.
- Charles W. Morgan - Visit the actively working preservation shipyard where ships and boats of all sizes are restored and maintained. Docked alongside a 19th Century recreated working waterfront seaport village, three tall ships beckon to be explored. Among them - the last wooden whaleship the world - the Charles W. Morgan is considered the “crown jewel” of the Mystic Seaport collection, she has outlived all others of her kind. Climb aboard and go below decks to learn about the men and women who lived aboard!
What's Included
- 3 tall ships
- Entire 19-acre indoor/outdoor museum experience
- Parking fees
- 3 tall ships
- Entire 19-acre indoor/outdoor museum experience
- Parking fees
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
- Food and drinks
Additional Information
Bask in the refreshing ocean air at the nation’s top-notch maritime history museum. Patrons have the liberty to journey aboard lofty ships, tour a restoration dockyard where skilled carpenters revive age-old wooden ships, wander in ancestral gardens, and partake in narrations of nautical tales conveyed by approachable personnel and volunteers. All…
Bask in the refreshing ocean air at the nation’s top-notch maritime history museum. Patrons have the liberty to journey aboard lofty ships, tour a restoration dockyard where skilled carpenters revive age-old wooden ships, wander in ancestral gardens, and partake in narrations of nautical tales conveyed by approachable personnel and volunteers. All indoor displays are accessible to offer visitors an extensive insight into sea’s livelihood during the glorious era of sail and beyond. During the summer, weekends are typically packed with extra activities.
- Valid up to one year from date of purchase
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Limited number of wheelchairs are available on a first come, first serve basis
- Historic location. Ships and some exhibit buildings have limited handicap accessibility
- If closed due to extreme weather, you will be given the option of an alternative date
- Dogs on leash are permitted on grounds. Not permitted on ships or in exhibits. Do not leave unattended.
- Masks are required to be worn in indoor spaces
Location
Mystic Seaport Museum
75 Greenmanville Ave,
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(321 Ratings)
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Kara_b
Oct 5, 2025
The weather was... - The weather was beautiful, there was a guitarist and a beer tasting. We enjoyed walking the grounds and visiting the exhibits.
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Mark_m
Sep 23, 2025
A whale of a good time!🐳 - Great experience. There are lots to look at and things to do. Make sure you plan a full day and get there early.
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Rrstew
Sep 22, 2025
Top notch museum - We took a guided tour of the shipyard first. That was awesome. The guide has been there 38 years and all the information he shared helped to enrich the rest of the museum. All the staff and volunteers we met were very friendly and extremely informative. We spent the entire day there and were glad we did.
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Barryn680
Sep 19, 2025
Mystic is a go to place on your trip not to be missed - we have a cond in Charelstown RI and went to this really nice museum in Mystic,Ct. and it was a great place for a famIily to visit. Yhou get to see the history of the area and all the information in regard to the ships that sailed out of the Harbor here.
It is near the entrance to the area where you walk into history with homes and business's that were there when Mystic first came about.Good parking across the street. Nice places to eat and the village can take hours to visit. Go to Mystic pizza where the movie of the same name was filmed. Then go across the street to the fantastic award winning bakery.
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K1184cureneeb
Sep 10, 2025
Wonderful! Interesting and informative! Clean and enjoyable! - Great time! Well worth it!
Staff was very interesting and attentive
Learned a lot about whaling and fishing boats. Lots of hands on opportunities.
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Jager97
Aug 29, 2025
Great family outing - This was a return trip 38 years in the making. My parents took us here when we were young and I wanted my kids to experience it. This is an all day event or can just be a stop on a day trip. You make it what you want it to be. If you like nautical history or just like to get outside this is a great place. There's also historic Mystic with shops downtown about a mile or so up the road.
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Star
Sep 27, 2025
Needs a nice day to enjoy this outdoor venue - My husband loves every old ship place and I go along. It was a lovely day to be outside walking on floating ships, seeing warehouses filled with old boats, and admiring the variety of shops that worked to support this seafaring industry. There is a lighthouse also on the grounds with a couple short videos inside. Free parking is right across the street. It is a very flat outside venue for walking. But getting on the ships and seeing you have to climb stairs. You can find food, drinks, and snacks inside with ample seating areas. We spent about 90 minutes here including a snack stop. That is about the minimum to walk by everything. They have several nice places to sit, stop and rest. We walked the whole thing and bought a souvenir. It has 2 entrances with nice bathrooms and shops.
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J_p
Sep 19, 2025
Beautiful and very interesting - Lots of walking on gravel and often stairs or steps. The museum steeps you in maritime history and is incredibly interesting.
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Om-fan
Sep 9, 2025
Where else do you get to board a whaling ship? - It is a place for fans of the genre, but it is worth a short visit because it is not a classic museum concentrated in one structure. You walk by the water and there is no confusion. You enter small wooden houses based on the interest you have in what is exposed inside. In one there is an interesting model that reconstructs the port of Mystic as it was in the days of the first settlements. Some outdoor posters tell stories about Native Americans present at the time of the colonists' landing and the development of the shipbuilding industry and its upheavals for them. Only here you have the opportunity to board the Charles W. Morgan, launched in 1841, get down in the berths of the sailors and understand a little bit what work was like on board: it is the only wooden whaling ship (three masts) that survived in the USA. Wow!
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Stephanie_l
Aug 28, 2025
Mystic Tour - We liked that everything was at our pace. Volunteers were helpful and directed us where to go. There were plenty of spots for us to rest.
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