Maritime and Mossing Museum, Massachusetts, United States

5TravelingFreeWoman 5:00 PM Feb 27, 2019

Shipbuilding, Shipwrecks, Irish Moss & more
This is a history treasure. I'm glad I researched on TripAdvisor before our genealogy research trip and found out about this museum. I was surprised while we were there to hear some locals say they had never heard of it before and were visiting for the first time. It's a small museum but has some large stories to tell. All three volunteers who were there were knowledgeable and conveyed the history of the area in interesting stories. The artifacts and displays are descriptive and explain the history of the area. I would definitely recommend this museum to everyone in the area whether local or visiting.

4Beggg 5:00 PM Aug 23, 2016

Free to Veterans - others pay around $6.00
This is a small, Sundays only, museum run by volunteers. If you can, let one of them tell you about some of the displays because they want to educate and are all very pleasant. It seemed to me that there are a couple of themes. First, there are artifacts and pictures of the several ship wrecks off the nearby coast. The most interesting was the fireplace mantel which was made from the remnants of an old wooden ship. But most informative to me were the displays and information concerning the sea farming of seaweed (really red algae). Its still commercially harvested off the rocky coast, but at one time was a major industry for the local Irish emigrants.