Camden Shipyard & Maritime Museum

The Camden Shipyard & Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in the Waterfront South neighborhood of Camden, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia.

The museum opened in September 2016.[1] Its main building is the former Church of our Savior, and its grounds include land once owned by the New York Shipbuilding Co., which is said to have been, at one time, the largest shipbuilder in the world.[2][3] The museum partners with UrbanPromise on their Urban BoatWorks program, which teaches middle-school and high-school students wooden boat-building.[4]

References
  1. Carol Comegno, Camden shipyard museum opens to raves, USA Today (September 11, 2016).
  2. Genovese, Peter (28 February 2014). "Hope floats: In nation's most dangerous city, Camden kids build boats, trust, confidence". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  3. Riordan, Kevin (17 July 2016). "In Camden, new museum to enshrine city's maritime history". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  4. "Urban BoatWorks | UrbanPromise". www.urbanpromiseusa.org. Retrieved 2019-10-24.


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