Free tours aboard the Ambrose are part of South Street Seaport Museum opening-day festivities
South Street Seaport Museum
12 Fulton St.
Saturday, April 25, free, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
212-748-8600
southstreetseaportmuseum.org
www.southstreetseaport.com
The South Street Seaport Museum will celebrate its opening day on April 25 with a full slate of free activities on board its historic vessels and offering special one-dollar six-month memberships. The festivities include a 2:00 bell-ringing by city councilmember Margaret Chin on the lightship Ambrose, a scavenger hunt, a Float Your Boat buoyancy demonstration of clay boats, a mobile print shop, the talk “How to Get There from Here: Sailor’s Navigation,” the scientific program It’s Alive! about living organisms in New York Harbor, the uprigging of the 1893 Fredonia schooner Lettie G. Howard, tours of “Street of Ships” Schermerhorn Row, a participatory mural on the Seaport Storywall, a photo booth, deck tours of the nineteenth-century schooner Pioneer and the Ambrose, temporary tattoos, line tossing, live music by the Lobbyists, tours of the 2911 barque Peking with “Sailor Stories” by museum historian Jack Putnam, the Naked Angels theater group presentation of the concert/play Seawife, a historic district walking tour, and more.