Antique Boat Museum

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1 Location
2 Events
3 History
4 External links

[edit] Location

Located in 750 Mary Street, Clayton, NY, the Antique Boat Museums displays its collection of antique boats and artifacts. It is located on the banks of the St. Lawrence River just above Lake Ontario in the region known as the Thousand Islands.

[edit] Events

The Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY hosts an antique boat show each July. It is the largest freshwater antique boat show in the United States. The museums also hosts a variety of other events, such as the:

Festival of Oar, Paddle & Sail
Antique Race Boat Regatta

To view the Museum's schedule, click here

[edit] History

First founded in the 1960's, the 1000 Islands Museum was founded on the St. Lawrence River in Clayton, NY. Within the museum, a group of people formed the "Antique Boat Auxiliary" and organized a show of antique boats in 1964. The boat show showed promising results and grew in size steadily. In the early 1970s, a group of supporters established a permanent museum to host the annual boat show. This museum was eventually named "Antique Boat Museum" In the years since its founding, the museum has expanded. The waterfront campus encompasses 4.5 acres of public program space, 1900' of dockage and 1300' of St. Lawrence River shoreline. The museum's expanding collection of artifacts have increased in numbers during the years as well. The boat collections include 250 watercraft, 65 inboard engines, 138 outboard motors and approximately 3000 smaller artifacts as of 2006.