Episode 2148
Boston Marine Museum
Wed, 2023-Mar-22 00:13 UTC
Length - 1:27
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The random article for Wednesday, 22 March 2023 is Boston Marine Museum.
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. Among the objects in the museum were figureheads; model ships; "whaling implements, ... prints and pictures;" manuscripts;publications; and "curios and relics of the seafaring life of New England." Leaders of the museum included John Templeman Coolidge, Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr., and Robert B. Smith. In 1947 the museum merged into the Bostonian Society.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:13 UTC on Wednesday, 22 March 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see Boston Marine Museum on Wikipedia.
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