Through winter, we are open four days a week!
January through March, we are open Thursday through Sunday from 1 to 5 PM. April through December, we are open Tuesday through Sunday, from 1 to 5pm (closed Monday), or by appointment. Call: 860-447-2501.
2012 Reid MacCluggage Black Maritime History Scholarship - for high school juniors and seniors - deadline is March 2, 2012. Click HERE
1.25.12 Read about the Amistad & Custom House Amistad exhibition on Voice of America: click HERE.
Coming up Sunday, February 12, 2 PM
Little Toot Valentine's Tea, with Linda Gramatky Smith
for children ages 4 to 8 with parent. Little Toot, cupcakes & tea!
Parent + child $15. Space limited. Call 860-447-2501 to reserve your place.
in March: Cartooning classes return, with Jon Buller
Cartooning for Kids, ages 7 & Up, with artist Jon Buller, Tuesdays: March 12, 20, 27 & April 3,
4 to 5:15 PM. fee $75, materials included. Call 860-447-2501 to register.
January 28 through March 25
To listen to Anne on the Faith Middleton Show, click HERE. See illustrations from Graycie's Catch. Read a cover article about The Look for the Good project in The Shoreline TImes HERE
Watch this Website for additional related programming: animal rescue taslk, bird walk, etc
Artist Anne' Kubitsky's exhibition and community art project, Opening to Good: A Story about the Ocean, Grace, and Gratitude, opens Saturday, January 28, 2012, at two New London venues: the Custom House Maritime Museum and Provenance Center. Timed to compliment Hygienic Art's annual Salon Des Independents (a New London tradition!), which begins later that same evening, Opening to Goodruns from 5 until 9 at both the Custom House and Provenance Center. The openings are followed by a contra dance party (beginners welcome!) featuring caller Bill Fischer, which takes place from 9 to 11 PM at Provenance Center. The exhibition runs through March 25, 2012, at the Custom House Maritime Museum and through February 25, 2012, at Provenance Center. Opening events are free and open to the public. Call 860-447-2501 or 860-405-5887 for additional information.
We are your local, independent, community-minded museum
—a cultural anchor in downtown New London. Culture creates vibrancy.
By contributing to the Society’s Annual Fund, you provide the essential
day-to-day support that enables us to preserve & present New London’s
stories and, by doing so, help revitalize New London’s historic waterfront.
Read about it in The Day. update: We are now 70% of the way to
our Annual Fund goal of $25,000. Read more about it HERE.
For the future, for our Heritage, & just for the Fun of it!
Please support New London's Custom House!
Every Wednesday, 5 to 6 PM, catch our TV show
CUSTOM HOUSE MARITIME MATTERS, on New London Metrocast cable, channel 25. Hosted by George Sprecace. Replayed on ComCast and Thames Valley on Fridays at 7 PM.on Channel 12. This week's guest was Jennifer Gaudio, curator of the USCG museum, who discussed the museum's reopening scheduled for May of this year..
Next week's guests are Anne Kubitsky and Nadesha Mijoba.
Our weekly TV show is now viewable On Demand for two weeks following broadcast. Last week's guest was USCG Museum curator Jennifer Gaudio.
October 5 marked the One-Year Anniversary of the program, click > HERE.
Do you like lighthouses? If so,
Click HERE to see what happened in JULY- one awesome month!
Click HERE to see what's happenening now.
This July, the Custom House Maritime Museum, in partnership with the New London County and Stonington Historical Societies, Mystic Seaport and the Connecticut River Museum will open an exhibition on the War of 1812 in southeastern Connecticut. The exhibiton will be held at the Lyman Allyn Museum.
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EXHIBITIONS
AMISTAD: A True Story of Freedom
a new permanent exhibition at the site of the original Amistad events of 1839.
See New London Maritime Society's Amistad exhibition at United Nations headquarters, NYC, March 2010. CLICK >> HERE. Read the latest about Amistad America in The Day 1.23.12
Vintage Dive Helmets from Jay Kane, of Shoreline Diving, & dive historian Ed Uditis.
One Small Boat by David McCulloch
Our favorite small-boat builder, David McCulloch of Old Lyme, has brought in one of his hand-built boats. The 12-foot boat, with a heat-shrunk aircraft dacron cover, is David's own design and weighs just 20 pounds! Is it a canoe or kayak? Read David's answer click >> here.
