Get a special look at the South Street Seaport Museum’s latest exhibition, Maritime City, which highlights how New York City as we know it today arose from the sea. Throughout the extensive three-floor exhibition, selected objects from the collections and archives of the Seaport Museum underscore how the city’s identity as a global capital of culture and finance is rooted in its origins as a seaport.

The tour will also include information about the building and access to floors that are not regularly open to the general public. Working with the celebrated preservation architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle, the Seaport Museum transformed the warehouse into a large-scale exhibition space, a hub for engaging educational programming, and a gathering space for the community. The building now includes a new climate control system, infrastructure hardened against flooding, an elevator, and full accessibility to welcome all visitors into previously-inaccessible space on “little” Water Street.

The tour will be led by Seaport Museum Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Martina Caruso, and a representative from Beyer Blinder and Belle Architects & Planners.

Children 12+ welcome. Every person attending, including children, requires a ticket.