The Museum's Workshop on the Water provides students not only with tools, materials, and instruction, but also a real-worked application to their classroom studies.photographs courtesy of The Independence Seaport Museum

The Museum's Workshop on the Water provides students with tools, materials, and instruction, as well as real-world applications for their regular classroom studies.

The Independence Seaport Museum sits on the banks of the Delaware River in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. Like most museums, it preserves artifacts of the past, but the Independence Seaport Museum is also preserving skills. It has an active boatshop, Workshop on the Water, that is bringing the traditions of wooden boat building to the city’s youth. Among the programs at the shop is SAILOR—Science and Arts Innovative Learning on the River—for middle and high-school students. Groups of 10 to 14 students build small boats learning STEM skills (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and the boats go to the museum’s community boating program fleet.
The Harbor Master Skiff was designed by John Brady, the President and CEO of the Museum.

The Harbor Master Skiff was designed by John Brady, the President and CEO of the Museum.

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