INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM

On a surface of almost 40,000 m ² in Penn's Landing, Independence Seaport Museum is a museum dedicated to the maritime history of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. It is the largest maritime museum in North America. Founded in 1961 by J. Welles Henderson, a collector who feared that the city's maritime past would fall into oblivion, he was formerly called Philadelphia Maritime Museum.

After a joyful ride on Penn's Landing's parable and charming docks, we will not miss exhibitions one, excellent, on the African presence on Delaware - Tides of Freedom: African Presence on the Delaware River - which opened in the summer of 2013 and is still presented. With a series of objects and writings, she returns to slave trade along the Delaware River. Equally exciting, a new semi-permanent exhibition called World War I USS Olympia was launched in June 2017, following the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War. We learn more about the role of the USS Olympia, whose last mission was to transport the Corps of the Unknown Soldier from France to Arlington's military cemetery in Virginia. The ship is kept at the museum and visits, like the USS Becuna submarine, which was used during the Second World War. Right next door, the Moshulu four-masts is docked and, if not part of the museum, it serves as a restaurant. Numerous events and boat tours on Delaware (May to September) are also organized.