Image: This dynamic model depicting the 1622 Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha. Photo: Carol Tedesco
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum Lectures to Chronicle Key West’s Spanish Galleon Shipwrecks, African American Heritage
KEY WEST, Florida Keys — One of the New World’s oldest shipwrecks, Civil War-era emancipation in Key West, and the discovery of two fabled sunken Spanish galleons are to be highlighted for audiences during a winter lecture series at the island city’s Mel Fisher Maritime Museum.
Scheduled each Tuesday from Jan. 28 through Feb. 25, the lectures begin at 6:30 p.m. at the museum, located at 200 Greene St. The fully accredited museum is an internationally recognized center for the excavation, preservation, research, and exhibition of New World maritime artifacts.
For more information, please visit: https://fla-keys.com/news/article/11875/mel-fisher-maritime-museum-lectures-to-chronicle-key-wests-spanish-galleon-shipwrecks-african-ameri/
