Kalmar Nyckel : Visit : Copeland Maritime Center
Copeland Maritime Center
Visit the Copeland Maritime Center (when we are open). Located on
the Kalmar Nyckel shipyard campus, this beautiful riverfront center opened in 2015 to offer a year-round riverfront venue for experiential
learning, educational field trips, team building as well as private rentals for
business and social events. Exhibits include:
- A 3/4-scale working model of
the ship’s main deck where students of all ages learn to work a square-rigged sail
- Watercraft of the World gallery featuring the extraordinary Forney Collection of 73 model ships and boats gathered from around the world
- Science of Sailing exhibit introducing celestial navigation, dead reckoning, plus STEM concepts and metrics used in sailing and navigating on open water
- Kalmar Nyckel: Key to the Kingdom offering a stunning photographic display of Kalmar, Sweden the namesake of the ship and the original Sister City of Wilmington.
- Tall Ship Time
Machine featuring a new 3-D animation exhibit that takes visitors on an imaginary trip back to 1638 to discover the differences between today's Kalmar Nykcel and the original ship, while revealing the inner workings, modern systems, people, and cargo that have changed since colonial times
- Riverfront Room that chronicles Wilmington's industrial history as a leading center of both railcar manufacturing and shipbuilding
The Copeland Maritime Center offers self-guided tours to visitors during our regular hours.
Group tours are available upon request with advance notice and arrangements. Please contact us with your request at [email protected] or call 32.429.7447.
Kalmar Nyckel : Visit : Copeland Maritime Center
Did you know: That Kalmar Nyckel has 8 miles of rigging?
