- Address: 25 Water Street,
Newburyport, MA 01950 - Website: www.themaritimesociety.org
- Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Phone:978-462-8681
- Admission:Free for ENHA information
Adults $5
Seniors and Youth $4
Children 12 and Under Free
Combo Passes with Lowell's Boat Shop Available - Directions: The Custom House Museum, Newburyport Maritime Society is in downtown Newburyport. From I-95, take exit 57 for Rte. 113 East. Follow Rte. 113 2.5 miles to Green Street, turn left onto Green Street. Follow Green to the end and turn right onto Water Street. After 2nd light, turn left into public parking lot.
- Map: Google Map
The Maritime Trail
The Newburyport Custom House Maritime Museum was designed by architect Robert Mills, who also designed such historical buildings as the Washington Monument. Built in 1835, this building was originally used as a Custom house in which the federal government collected taxes on imported goods brought home to Newburyport by ship captains from far away ports.
The Museum maintains original artifacts from the prosperous trade era, maritime art, models of Newburyport-built vessels, trades routs and journals, and old maps showing the city's birth. Exhibitions focus on Newburyport's role on privateering, and fame - and fortune - it brought to local captains such as Moses Brown. Tours for students, programs for families and kids, and lectures fro the maritime enthusiast, all feature Newburyport's connection to the sea and rich maritime heritage.
Nearby Area Sites
- Amesbury and Salisbury Mills Village Historic District

Significant for its associations with the 19th century textile industry and it embodies the distinctive character of a mid-19th century industrial community
Lowell's Boat Shop
The country's oldest boat building shop and one of the nation's first mass production builders.- Rocky Hill Meetinghouse

To this day is the least altered of any 18th Century country-meeting house in Massachusetts - Whittier Home

The home of John Greenleaf Whittier, one of America's greatest poets, contains furnishings that remain nearly the same as when the Whittier family lived there from 1836-1892. [Top]
