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Vote for People’s Choice

The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum Facebook Followers Photography Exhibit is open through March 2023. The museum put out a call to our Facebook followers to share their favorite Outer Banks images and scenes. A jury selected their favorite photographs for the exhibit, and more...

Recurring

Salty Dawg Speaker Series: A Picture Show of Outer Banks Shipwreck Diving

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NC

Join Marc Corbett for a photo presentation of the area's shipwrecks. Corbett combined a love for history and SCUBA diving to become a shipwreck hunter, researching and exploring wrecks in shallow and deep water. He will soon be publishing a book on near-shore wrecks. Corbett...

Free

Salty Dawg Speaker Series: Sea Shanties and Songs of the Sea

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NC

JR Shanty Co, comprised of wife and husband team Julianne Laird and Richard Workman, is an instrumental and vocal folk duo, which performs traditional sea shanties and songs of the sea.  Featuring instrumentals on guitar and cello, these lifelong music educators energetically share the history...

Free

Salty Dawg Speaker Series: An Examination of the Shipwrecks along Wimble Shoals

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NC

Allyson Ropp, a doctoral student in the Integrated Coastal Studies Program at East Carolina University, explores the histories of some of the vessels lost along Wimble Shoals and northern Hatteras Island, as well as the overall near shore and offshore wrecking trends of the area....

Free

Salty Dawg Speaker Series: A Coharie Canoe

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NC

Lydia Downs, a Masters candidate at East Carolina University working on the cultural meanings and preservation of a native American canoe in North Carolina, will focus on the Coharie Tribe in North Carolina to tell the story of their newly repatriated dugout canoe. The program...

Free

Grand reopening

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NC

The North Carolina Maritime Museum on Hatteras has completed its extensive renovation and complete redesign of its lobby and exhibit spaces. The new gallery is a showcase of state-of-the-art features and interactive elements that bring our coastal history to life. And you can be among...

U.S. Life Saving Service Operations along the North Carolina Coast

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NC

Join North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort Education Curator Benjamin Wunderly to learn about the history of U.S. Life-Saving Service operations, the precursor to the United States Coast Guard.

Brigadier General Billy Mitchell: Father of the U.S. Air Force and Hatteras Hero

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NC

Join Danny Couch to learn about the man considered by aviation historians as the most polarizing airman this country has ever produced. Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell is, nonetheless, regarded as the father of the United States Air Force and an icon in American aviation history....

North Carolina Whales: Diversity, Distribution and Conservation

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NC

Join North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort Natural Science Curator and Director of Bonehenge Whale Center Keith Rittmaster to learn about the whales most commonly spotted off the coast of North Carolina and to handle some related display items.