Maritime Museum News
2025 Lake Ontario Waterfront Festival
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum and New York Sea Grant have announced new features and hours for the 2025 Lake Ontario Waterfront Festival to be held on Saturday, May 17, 2025 along the Oswego Port Authority West Pier at 1 West First Street in Oswego, New York. The free admission event will include live raptors, boats, e-bikes, historic maritime vessels, boat tours, water rescue emergency services, Great Lakes conservation and science exhibits, and free admission to the museum.
2024 Annual Benefit Drawing Winners Announced
On November 20th, at the H. Lee White Maritime Museum's Annual Volunteer Reception, the winners of the Annual Benefit Drawing were selected. They are certainly going to have a blast! This year’s drawing raised close to $6,000.
Tugging Around Oswego Harbor - William Leighton Exhibit
Through photographs, watercolors, and scale models, Leighton’s impressions of tugboats provide a vivid portrait of Oswego Harbor in the 20th century and echo the essential nature of tugboats to harbor operations. As a professional photographer and twenty-eight-year veteran of the Palladium Times, Leighton’s (1925-2017) love for the workhorse of the water is on full display May 18 through December 22, 2024.
Oswego Paddlefest 2024 - Details & Registration
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum presents Oswego Paddlefest, Saturday, July 13, 2024. The event is in its 10th year and encourages kayakers and canoeists to enjoy and appreciate the unique beauty of the historic Oswego Canal/River. Paddlers will experience locking through 4 actual canal locks.
Honoring the 80th Anniversary of D-Day
Today, moored along the West First Street Pier in Oswego Harbor, LT-5 Major Elisha K. Henson serves as a dock-side attraction, a remnant of the greatest generation, and a site worthy of preservation. Seventy-five years ago, the 114’ ocean going tugboat played a crucial role in what General Dwight Eisenhower termed the “Great Crusade” – the allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, colloquially known as D-Day.
International Museum Ship Weekend 2024
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum is excited to welcome back Fred Legaweic as part of International Museum Ship Weekend, hosted June 1-2, 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Youth Sailboat Sprint - Build Your Own Workshops
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum is partnering with the Children’s Museum of Oswego and the City of Oswego to offer two off-site model sailboat building workshops for children ages 5-15 years of age. The first is May 2nd .
Ned & Gail Goebricher Named Volunteers of the Year in 2023
Ned and Gail Goebricher, of Oswego, were honored recently at the Museum’s Annual Volunteer Reception for their dedication to the restoration of the Oswego West Pierhead Lighthouse and their involvement with the H Lee White Maritime Museum in particular with Lighthouse Boat Tours.
Oswego Lighthouse Tour Booking Open for 2024
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego is now taking reservations for boat tours to the Oswego West Pierhead Lighthouse for the 2024 season!
Shipwrecks of Upstate New York
A new exhibit, courtesy of Tim Caza and Dennis Gerber, features twenty five 3D printed and hand painted models of local shipwrecks. On display now, at the H. Lee White Maritime Museum.
Schooner Ontario - 2022 Update
The theme for this year’s work was preparation and preservation, preparation for the major work coming in 2023 and pr...
Schooner Ontario - 2021 Update
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum’s Schooner Ontario Committee had a big year and made considerable progress on Ontari...