“The Mariners' Museum and Park features 90,000 square feet of galleries showcasing maritime art, culture, science, and history. Designated by Congress as America's National Maritime Museum, it is located within a 550-acre park, one of the largest privately owned and maintained parks open to the public. The museum's collection includes approximately 32,000 objects, evenly divided between works of art and three-dimensional artifacts. Its extensive research library, originally built around the maritime book collection of founder Archer Milton Huntington, has grown to house nearly 110,000 books, 800,000 photographs, films, and negatives, and over 1 million archival materials, making it the largest maritime library in the Western Hemisphere.”
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