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 or by appointment. Call: 860-447-2501. We will be closed Saturday, February 4, for a private event.
2012 Reid MacCluggage Black Maritime History Scholarship - for high school juniors and seniors - deadline is March 2, 2012. Click HERE
2.2.12 Read an original meditation and poem created about the Amistad & New London at last year's International Festival of Arts & Ideas: click HERE.
1.25.12 Read about the Amistad & Custom House Amistad exhibition on Voice of America: click HERE.
1.29.12 We mourn the passing of artist Robert Hauschild.
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 75%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!
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.
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 is COnnecticut Senator Andrea Stillman.
Our weekly TV show is now viewable On Demand for two weeks following broadcast. Last week's guest was artist Anne Kubitsky.
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.
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
Opening to Good: A Story about the Ocean, Grace, and Gratitude with artist Anne Kubitsky - through March 25.
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.
