Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum
The Hart Nautical Gallery is a gallery in the MIT Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.[1]
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The original Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum was established in 1922 at MIT as part of the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.[2][3] It was incorporated into the MIT Museum in 1982.
William A. Baker, a maritime historian, was curator of the museum from 1963 until his death in 1981.[4] The collections[3][5] include construction drawings of the Doris sailing yacht, designer William Hand’s surviving drawings, and material relating to shipbuilder Jacob Aaron Westervelt.
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- Maritime and Naval Museums: Massachusetts, USA.
- Museums, libraries, archives 51 — 75 of 161 records, Intute, UK.
- Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, USA.
- William A. Baker Collection, MIT Museum, USA.
- Nautical Collections List, MIT Museum, USA.
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