{{Short description|Defunct museum in Boston, Massachusetts}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} __NOTOC__ thumb|right|Boston Marine Museum, ca.1910s
The '''Boston Marine Museum''' (1909–1947) in Boston, Massachusetts, specialized in maritime history. Its collections were displayed in the Old State House in rooms borrowed from the Bostonian Society.<ref>{{citation |title=Proceedings of the Bostonian Society, Annual Meeting |year= 1911 |hdl= 2027/njp.32101076884707 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |author = Edwin M. Bacon |title = Book of Boston |date = 1916 |ol = 2591948M |author-link = Edwin Munroe Bacon }}</ref> Among the objects in the museum were figureheads; model ships; "whaling implements, ... prints and pictures;"<ref>{{citation |title=Marine Museum and Harvard get Fearing Collections |work= Boston Globe |date= July 20, 1918 }}</ref> manuscripts;{{refn|group=nb|The museum owned manuscript materials such as the journal of sea captain John Suter;<ref>{{citation |title=Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society |year= 1920 |volume=54 |hdl= 2027/uc1.b3499695 }}</ref> and the diary of Leavitt Sprague<ref>{{citation |title=List of Sailings from New England to San Francisco 1849-1856 |location= Boston |year= 1913 |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008651155 }}</ref>}}publications;{{refn|group=nb|The museum owned published material such as the ''Boston Shipping List and Price Current,'' 1843-1882<ref>{{citation |title=Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society |year= 1921 |volume=54 |hdl= 2027/uc1.b3499695 }}</ref>}} and "curios and relics of the seafaring life of New England."<ref name=harvard1910>{{citation |title=Harvard Graduates' Magazine |volume= 18 |year= 1910 }}</ref> Leaders of the museum included John Templeman Coolidge,<ref>{{citation |author=Edward W. Forbes |title=John Templeman Coolidge: 1856-1945 |work= Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts |volume= 44 |number= 256 |date=June 1946 }}</ref> Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr.,<ref name=harvard1910 /> and Robert B. Smith.<ref>{{citation |author=David A. Wasson |title=The Silent Pilots|work=The Outlook |date= January 27, 1915 }}</ref> In 1947 the museum merged into the Bostonian Society.<ref>{{cite web |publisher= Bostonian Society |work= Catalog |title= Marine Museum records, 1909-1948 |url= http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/default.asp?IDCFile=detailsG.IDC,SPECIFIC=13106,DATABASE=GROUP |url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140413142149/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/default.asp?IDCFile=detailsG.IDC%2CSPECIFIC%3D13106%2CDATABASE%3DGROUP |archivedate= 2014-04-13 }}</ref>
==See also== * The Bostonian Society * List of maritime museums in the United States
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==External links== {{commons category|Boston Marine Museum}}
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Category:1909 establishments in Massachusetts Category:1947 disestablishments in Massachusetts Category:Cultural history of Boston Category:20th century in Boston Category:Defunct museums in Boston Category:Financial District, Boston Category:Maritime museums in Massachusetts Category:Museums established in 1909