Dr. William Collier shares 30 years of yacht restorations, the founding of the Scottish Yachting Archives, and highlights artifacts spanning the Golden Age to today.

Explore the role of early portrait photography in shaping identity and memory in 19th-century New Bedford. This talk traces how studio photographers captured a city in transition—from the height of the whaling era through waves of immigration and technological change.

Explore Gilded Age yachting style in this illustrated talk on the fashions and dress codes that defined life aboard nineteenth-century yachts and steamships.