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The museum was founded in 1980 by local Hudson River enthusiasts, but did not move to its present property, an old boat shop, until 1983. Its exhibits include various small craft, artifacts of river steamships such as the Mary Powell, a research library, ice-harvesting tools and maps, paintings and sketches from past eras.
Half Moon is a replica of Halve Maen, the famed ship that English mariner Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River in 1609. The ship was constructed between 1988 and 1989 at the Snow Dock in Albany, New York, its construction commissioned by Dr. Andrew Hendricks. [1]
The ship was captained by Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch Republic. [2] In 1909, the Kingdom of the Netherlands presented the United States with a replica of Halve Maen to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage; the replica was destroyed in a fire in 1934. Over fifty years later, in 1989, the New Netherland ...
East Hampton Town Marine Museum: Y New York: Greenport: East End Seaport Maritime Museum: Y New York: Hammondsport: Finger Lakes Boating Museum: New York: High Falls: Delaware and Hudson Canal Museum: New York: Kings Point: American Merchant Marine Museum: Y New York: Kingston: Hudson River Maritime Museum: Y New York: Lockport
Hudson–Fulton Celebration program Hudson–Fulton Celebration New York City, commemorative stamp, 1909 Issue. The Hudson–Fulton Celebration from September 25 to October 9, 1909 in New York and New Jersey was an elaborate commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River and the 100th anniversary of Robert Fulton's first successful commercial ...
Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of ...
New Netherland Museum, Albany, New York, maritime collections including the "Half Moon", a reproduction of the ship that Henry Hudson sailed from Holland to the New World in 1609; Noteworthy Indian Museum, Amsterdam [60] Pedaling History Bicycle Museum, Orchard Park, closed in 2009
This list of museum ships in North America is a list of notable museum ships located in the continent of North America and it may include ones in overseas parts of Canada and the United States. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly, but is intended to be limited to substantial (large) ships or, in a few cases, very notable ...