Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum
The Hart Nautical Gallery is a gallery in the MIT Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.[1] The collections[2][3] include construction drawings of the Doris sailing yacht, designer William Hand’s surviving drawings, and material relating to shipbuilder Jacob Aaron Westervelt.
History
[edit]The original Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum was established in 1922 at MIT as part of the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.[4][2] It was incorporated into the MIT Museum in 1982. William A. Baker, a maritime historian, was curator of the museum from 1963 until his death in 1981.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Maritime and Naval Museums: Massachusetts, USA.
- 1 2 Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, USA.
- ↑ Nautical Collections List, MIT Museum, USA.
- ↑ Museums, libraries, archives 51 — 75 of 161 records, Intute, UK.
- ↑ William A. Baker Collection, MIT Museum, USA.
External links
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