Every Member Counts!
The Custom House Maritime Museum invites you to visit our exhibitions and many stimulating museum programs. We exist only because of the generous support we receive from our members & sponsors.
We need to boost our membership in 2013! And we've got a great offer.
For the next two weeks, only, we offer special two-for-one memberships to the Custom House Maritime Museum.
Buy a $35 individual or $50 family membership, and you may donate an equal membership to a friend!
If you already are an NLMS member, buy two gift memberships for the price of one!
Call 860-447-2501 or email nlmaritimedirector @ gmail.con to get started. We will send a lovely gift certificate to new gift members who register through January 28, 2013!
Please join in supporting the Custom House!
Family membership is $50 per year
Individual membership - $35
Contributor - $100
Sponsor - $250
Patron - $1,000
NEW - The rolling membership year begins when you sign up!.
CALL: 860-447-2501 to become a member.
Members Make the Museum FREE
On Barbara's birthday, admission to the Custom House will be FREE!
Why? Because Barbara says so.
(left: Barbara at Chowda' Fest )
Barbara is a $100 member of the Custom House, which entitles her to select one day this year when admission for everyone is free. She choose October 21--her birthday.
Now, thanks to Barbara, this October 21 we all get a present!
Join the Custom House at the $100 level, or boost your membership to $100, and then select your FREE day at the Custom House.
This year the museum hosted museum field trips for all of New London's third grade students and provided free Amistad workshhops for another 180 New London school children.
Our Third Thursday lecture programs explored the 19th-century fascination with oceans (Helen Rozwadowski - Fathoming the Ocean), local lighthouse history, one man's dream to build a sailboat and sail the inland waterways to Florida (the Grandma Sue), and the sorry connection between chocolate and child slavery (Slavery is Alive and Well & Picking Cocoa Beans).
We hosted receptions for the US Coast Guard, New London's First Annual Regatta, and Amistad America, and received hundreds of New Londoners as well as international cruise ship visitors into our museum. New London's storied Jibboom Club hosted its 2nd Annual CribbageFest and biweekly cribbage meets here. We celebrated the Thames Yacht Club's 75 anniversary with an exhibit and talk by local historian James Reyburn.
Exhibitions included Inuit prints with Maritime Themes from the collections of James & Alice Houston, The Arctic's Pull: New London's Long History with the North an exhibition developed by the Custom House Museum in partnership with Mystic Seaport and the New London County Historical Society, and The Art & Illustration of Hardie Gramatky presenting artworks from the creator of the Little Toot books.
In celebration of the 175 anniversary of the Custom House building, on November 8, 2008, we hosted a symposium about Robert Mills, the first federal architect and the designer of the Custom House and the national Washington Monument.
Won't you help us?
Join the New London Maritime Society today!
Call: 860-447-2501
or mail your membership to
Custom House Maritime Museum
150 Bank Street
New London, CT 06320
