NOTE: Be advised, due to limited post-pandemic staffing and volunteers, assistance with research inquiries is backlogged and it may take additional weeks.
Maritime Research Center
The Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society has available for scholarly and personal research some 800 cubic feet of archival materials and over 60,000 ship and other maritime related photographs and negatives. Researchers will find a detailed, box-by-box listing and description of these materials in the Society’s Maritime Research Center located at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) Resource Center in the Seattle neighborhood of Georgetown.
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Appointments are Required. PSM’s Maritime Research Center is inside a secure collections storage facility shared with The Museum of History and Industry in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, north of Boeing Field. Appointments can be made upon receipt of a research request. Researchers are asked to complete a request form and email it to us with your name and phone number. Response time is usually 7-14 days with our staff and volunteers working as fast as they can on requests. Appointments are required for visiting the office or conducting research in our Maritime Research Center. To request help or submit a research inquiry: 1. Fill out and submit the Research Inquiry Form. 2. Email Us 3. Download and send in a Ships Plan Research Inquiry form. 4. Email us at the above link (#2) to schedule an appointment. Appointments must be made to conduct research. The archives are normally open every Thursday between 10 a.m. and Noon, 1 p.m and 4 p.m. except for holidays. Should circumstances warrant, staff will try to accommodate researchers’ requests for access at other times Monday-Friday. |
