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EXHIBIT TOURS RESUME MAY 2025!
During our “off season” we continue to host student groups, volunteers and other programs.
Visit the “Happening” tab on our website for our Fall & Winter Programming: events, classes, speaker engagements, workshops and other upcoming events
Our Gift Shop is open by appointment through the Holidays, stocked with unique gifts for the mariner, handy-person, and inventors in your life. A little something for everyone.
Find your way around!
Walking directions to from 66 Main Street - SHIPYARD, to 28 Main Street - 1835 SCHOOLHOUSE, Essex MA
The museum occupies the former A.D. Story Shipyard, adjacent to the town’s Shipyard of 1668 and across a shared creek from the H.A. Burnham Shipyard. In use for shipbuilding since at least 1813, hundreds of vessels ranging from 10ft. skiffs to 175ft. steam trawlers have been built on and launched from this site by 3 generations of the Story family, along with many others.