The Maritime Crafts Center of South Street Seaport Museum is a workshop for maritime crafts people. Here wood carvers and model builders demonstarte their skills, showing that they are at home using traditional skills of the past as well as new techniques.

The wood carvers produce authentic recreations of ships' figureheads, eye-catching signboards for local shops and businesses and delicate shore birds found along our coastal waterways. Learn about the creation of a "ship in a bottle" with painstaking research and workmanship, the Museum's model builders turn out miniature vessels as diverse as the royal barges of Egypt, the great sailing ships of the 19th century and even merchant submarines.

The workshop was erected in 1983 made out of two ship containers joined together with the windows and doors cut out. The master carver in residence is Sal Polisi. An art model builder and restorer is also on staff, Jeffrey Fuglestad.

Located at the head of Pier 15 and under the bow spread of the Wavertree (the tall ship)
Hours: Monday-Sunday 8AM-2:30PM

For commissions and other inquiries call the shop at 212 748 8600 ext. 668