American Merchant Marine
Museum of The United States Merchant Marine Academy -
Kings Point Nassau County Long Island New York
The American Merchant Museum serves as a repository for
the United States Merchant Marine Academy's extensive
and valuable collection of marine art, ship models and
nautical artifacts. The Museum's mission is to educate
and inform visitors about the American merchant marine
in a learning center for the regiment and public at
large, to promote public interest in and understanding
of our nation's merchant marine and to collect, preserve
and exhibit historic items that represent our nation's
rich seafaring heritage.
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American
Merchant Marine Museum
Of The United States Merchant Marine
Academy
The American Merchant Museum serves as a
repository for the United States Merchant
Marine Academy's extensive and valuable
collection of marine art, ship models and
nautical artifacts. The Museum's mission is
to educate and inform visitors about the
American merchant marine in a learning
center for the regiment and public at large,
to promote public interest in and
understanding of our nation's merchant
marine and to collect, preserve and exhibit
historic items that represent our nation's
rich seafaring heritage. The Museum employs
imaginative exhibitions and displays to
illustrate what the American merchant marine
is and who its leaders are.
National Maritime Hall of Fame
For more than two decades, the Museum houses
the National Maritime Hall of Fame, the only
such permanent exhibit in the nation, which
is dedicated to recognizing and honoring the
great people and great ships of our maritime
history. For almost two decades, famous
people and ships from our great maritime
past have been selected annually to be
honored in the Hall.
A primary goal of the American Merchant
Marine Museum is to give national prestige
and fame to these persons and merchant
vessels that are vital to the history of the
United States since Colonial times. All
phases of the maritime industry are
represented in this Hall of Fame: ship
operation, ship building, maritime unions,
maritime museums, and other
maritime-oriented fields. Over one hundred
ships and people have been honored.
Anyone can nominate a person or ship to be
considered for induction into the Hall.
There are criteria: the person must have
been deceased or the ship sunk or scrapped
for at least five years before being
considered. Every effort is made to insure
that all segments of our nation's shipping
industry (oceans, coastwise shipping, inland
waterways and Great Lakes) are included.
Only one person and one ship are inducted
into the Hall of Fame each year, except for
the 2003 inductees which were the two last
surviving Liberty ships, both floating
museums: John W. Brown and the Jeremiah
O'Brien.
Hours
Open Tuesday-Thursday 10:00AM-3:00PM
Closed Federal Holidays and the Month of
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American
Merchant Marine Museum
Of The United States Merchant Marine
Academy
300 Steamboat Road
Kings Point, NY 11024
t 516-726-6047
tf 1-866-KINGSPT (546-4778)
www.usmma.edu/about/museum/
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