St. Peter in Great Shipwrecks Traveling Exhibit at SUNY Oswego Through January 22, 2015
January 6, 2015 Among the featured historic sites in the Great Shipwrecks of NY’s Great Lakes traveling
exhibit that is currently at the
Tyler Art Gallery in Penfield Hall Library at SUNY Oswego, is the schooner St. Peter that sank near Pultneyville, NY, in 1898.
The exhibit
developed for the 2014 Great New York State Fair and updated for this
installation will be on display through
January 22, 2015. Exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday, including
Martin Luther Day. Admission and parking are free. The public is welcome.
Exhibit
components include interpretive panels highlighting shipwrecks in Lake Ontario,
Lake Erie, Lake Champlain, the Finger Lakes, Lake George and the St. Lawrence River;
videos; and a newly-built replica of the ‘turtle ship’ Radeau that sunk in Lake
Champlain.
Freshwater
science technology including a remotely-operated underwater vehicle and a Great
Lakes Research Consortium in-water sensing buoy; water recreation equipment; and
national Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers information on slowing the spread of aquatic
invasive species are also part of the exhibit.
‘This Great
Shipwrecks exhibit offers students and the greater community a distinctive
learning experience focused on New York’s unique maritime history,’ says SUNY
Oswego Provost Dr. Lorrie Clemo, who serves as Vice-Chair of the New York Sea
Grant Board of Governors.
‘Capturing
the fascinating maritime heritage of New York State in this exhibit is proving
to be a great way to encourage interest in education, underwater science
innovation, and waterfront tourism as an economic engine for our coastal communities,’
says exhibit coordinator Dave
White, New York Sea Grant Coastal Recreation and Tourism Specialist and associate
director of the Great Lakes Research Consortium.
Sponsors of the
Great Shipwrecks at the Tyler Art Gallery exhibit are SUNY Oswego, the Great
Lakes Research Consortium, the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, and New York Sea
Grant.
New York Sea
Grant coordinated the exhibit development in partnership with the Great New
York State Fair, Great Lakes Research Consortium, and
Great Lakes Seaway Trail. Lake Champlain Sea Grant, the Lake Champlain Maritime
Museum, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, H. Lee White Marine Museum, National
Aquatics Services, Mexico Cub Scouts and others participated in the State Fair
exhibit. Federal funding for The Great Shipwrecks exhibit was secured through a Great Lakes Seaway
Trail National Scenic Byway grant.
Tyler Art Gallery, a teaching gallery regularly used by
art classes and a training base for the museum studies program students, is
open to the public on the
second floor of Penfield Hall. Learn more at www.nyseagrant.org/shipwreck.
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