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The Connecticut River Museum is a U.S. educational and cultural institution based at Steamboat Dock in Essex, Connecticut that focuses on the marine environment and maritime heritage of the Connecticut River Valley.〔(“Connecticut River Museum,” Frommer’s )〕 The three-story Connecticut River Museum is located in a restored 1878 steamboat warehouse,〔(“Southeastern Connecticut,” Baltimore Sun )〕 which is now the only one of its type remaining on the river, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NRHP nomination for Steamboat Dock Site )〕 The museum opened to the public in 1975, with Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso as its first paid member and ''ex officio'' patron. The core of its collection came from the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, which provided the museum with a loan of nautical artwork, navigation equipment and maritime-related artifacts.〔(“Connecticut River Museum History,” Connecticut River Museum (About Us), 1999 )〕 The museum's main and third levels offer changing exhibits, while its second level is home to a permanent exhibition on shipbuilding, which includes historical maps and models of steamboats and exhibits on the piscine species in the Connecticut River.〔(“A River Teeming With History And Wildlife,” Hartford Courant, August 19, 2004 )〕 The museum's collection also includes a full-scale replica of ''Turtle'', the first American submarine, which was constructed in Essex in 1776 for use against the British in the American Revolution.〔 The museum property also includes a boathouse and a research library. In December 1995, the museum was given a triangular waterfront property, valued at US$910,000, in the neighboring village of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, by Bill and Victoria Winterer, who were among the museums co-founders. The property is used as a waterfront park managed by the museum.〔(“Old Saybrook Property Donated to Essex Museum,” Hartford Courant, December 29, 1995 )〕 In 2011 the museum caught fire. They had to rebuild part of it. ==See also== *National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Connecticut 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Connecticut River Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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