Tuesday, April 19, 2022; 7:30 p.m.
(Join us in-person or online! Sign-on information will be posted below about 1 week prior to the event.)
James M. Lindgren, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, History Department, SUNY Plattsburgh
Blue Water Ports, Global Resources, and Commercial Empires: The Origins of the Nation’s Major Maritime Museums
Today, the nation’s major maritime museums—in Salem, New Bedford, Mystic, Newport News, San Francisco, and New York City—have much in common, but when they were founded, their motivations were quite unique. From the beginning, each museum pursued its own global agenda. Whether it was the nation’s first museum in Salem and its quest for East Indian markets in the 1790s, or the most recently established museum, South Street Seaport with its concerns about Gotham’s slipping trade, globalism defined their agendas. Based on Jim’s most recent book, Preserving Maritime America: A Cultural History of the Nation’s Great Maritime Museums (Nov. 2019), this presentation will examine the origins of these half-dozen museums and give a brief hint of how they were later forced to change by focusing on their own locale.
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- Or join us in-person! The event is hosted in the Avery Point Auditorium (map.pdf).
Enter from the Academic Building main entrance, the auditorium is on the second floor at the end of the hall (mobility-disabled accessible); or enter through the Student Center and go up two flights of stairs.
For more information, contact: Nat Trumbull at trumbull@uconn.edu