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  • The documentation, cleaning, and relocation of a 300 year-old ship in pieces

    • Collections
    • Conservation
    • Cultural Heritage

    Ships? Princesses? Dental Picks? Conservation has a lot going on this summer with the documentation, cleaning, and relocation of over 300 ship timbers for future research and treatment.

  • Hampton Roads City Nature Challenge, April 30 to May 3, 2021

    • Mariners' Park
    • Wildlife

    Do you and your family have cabin fever? Do you want to participate in community science efforts in Hampton Roads? Do you love The Mariners’ Park and other natural areas around our region? Well look no further– we have the event for you!

  • BEYOND THE FRAME: A Different Light

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections

    In this edition of Beyond the Frame, we'll explore Samuel Ward Stanton's narrative dual-ship portrait from 1909 featuring steamships Trojan and Rensselaer as the ships steam along the Hudson River under the light of a full moon. Explore the influences of the passionate artist's life and learn about the "Searchlight route" as we step into this scene in the summer of 1909.

  • Beyond The Frame: The Secret Ingredient

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections

    When you look at Edward William Cooke’s 1856 painting, “Violent Squall on the Adriatic”, it becomes so much more than a painting of a fishing boat, instead it comes to life and plays out like the dramatic climax of a movie.

  • Virginia Waterways and the Underground Rail Road

    From 1830 to 1860, the City of Norfolk was the center of maritime activities in Hampton Roads as the Port of Virginia. These waterways transported goods to points North and enslaved human beings to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations. Yet, these same waterways that condemned so many to hard labor, separating families and causing so much pain, were also used to secure freedom for thousands through a locally autonomous system that fed into a national underground railroad network.

  • BEYOND THE FRAME: Upon Which the Sun Hits

    In episode of Beyond the Frame, we experience the beauty in the everyday. In Gifford Beal’s ca. 1930 oil on canvas, “Hauling Nets” or “Piling Nets on a Wagon” we see that outlook, very literally.

  • A Very Fond Farewell

  • Luck in the New Year

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