The Mariners’ Museum and Park
The Mariners’ Museum and Park connects people to the world’s waters, because through the waters – through our shared maritime heritage – we are connected to one another.
We believe that the promise of our mission is a powerful one. This shared connection to the water unites our local, national, and global communities. That bond – the belief that we are all mariners – creates the vehicle to build resilient and flourishing communities even in the face of adversity.
Our 1930 Charter describes the purpose of The Mariners’ Museum and Park:
… to build, own, equip, maintain, and operate in Warwick County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a museum and library pertaining to nautical subjects, things and interests, and otherwise to advance learning, the arts, and sciences related to and bearing on water craft, the marine and marine navigation, thus to promote the public welfare [emphasis added] and provide means for encouraging and carrying on the above mentioned purposes.
And…to develop and maintain a lake and park within the bounds of which the foregoing purposes may be accomplished.
The Mariners’ Museum is a place to explore, learn, have fun, and above all else–connect to the world’s waters and to one another. Admission to the Museum is $1 per person because we believe that through the waters we are connected as one city, one region, one nation, and one world.
