Dear friends,

I am so proud of all we accomplished at the Noble Maritime Collection in 2023, thanks, in part, to your support.

Our audience grew to nearly 15,000 people.
We served 3,777 schoolchildren of all ages and abilities with our unique brand of arts education, and those services will continue to grow as we received prestigious funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to develop Musical Voyage Around the World, an inclusive new program based in ethnomusicology.
We opened the exhibition Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen, guest-curated by the Alice Austen House Museum’s Executive Director Victoria Munro. It features 15 maritime-themed images that have never before been seen by the public, and it will be on view through the spring.
We presented the major exhibition Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea—which closed in September—and held a historic reunion of the survivors of the 1956 sinking of the Italian ocean liner.
The District Council 9 International Union of Painters and Allied Trades painted the gallery around John A. Noble’s houseboat studio, with paint donated by PPG.
And with the generous support of the Versailles-Giverny Foundation, facilitated by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, we restored the historic Writing Room trompe-l’œil ceiling mural, which dates from Sailors’ Snug Harbor’s 50th anniversary in 1883.

Please consider making a year-end donation to the Noble Maritime Collection, in any amount. We put all donations to the best possible use, and your generous gift will help preserve the art and artifacts in our collection for coming generations of museumgoers and maritime enthusiasts.

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In 2024, we will present the new exhibition Noble Industrial, a solo exhibition by Staten Island artist Robert Padovano, and updated displays in the Writing Room about the people who lived and worked at Sailors’ Snug Harbor, including new research about the experiences of people of color. We also hope to host a public program about the Writing Room ceiling mural restoration.

I hope to welcome you to the museum again soon. In the meantime, I wish you peace and happiness this holiday season and in the year to come.

Warm regards and many thanks,

Ciro Galeno, Jr.
Executive Director