Vessels

Welcome to the archived version of the MIT Museum's online collections portal! This site was used to test features and content for the newly redesigned MIT Museum Collections site, which has now launched with over 150,000 objects. Please use the new MIT Museum Collections site for further research and discovery. This site remains online during the transition period but will not receive new updates or content.

The Hart Nautical Collection holds a large quantity of objects related to many thousands of vessels. Searching the vessels database using the advanced search function can help locate vessels of interest and related materials such as plans, photographs and models.

Only a small number of design collections (George Owen, Arthur Binney, Morris M. Whitaker) are fully available online. Portions of others such as Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. are also available. Online data available about vessels and related materials will expand over time.

Beta version of our new collections portal

Almost 17,000 object records from the Haffenreffer-Herreshoff nautical collection are now available on the beta site of the Museum’s online collections portal. We invite you to explore the site and give us your feedback. With your help, we will continue to improve the portal and look forward to a full launch when artifacts from all of our collections will be available.

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