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URBANICITY PRESENTS
The Golden Age of Piracy
A museum of the sea between two ports — the cold north and the warm south — and the outlaws who ran the water between them.
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A museum of the sea between two ports — the cold north and the warm south — and the outlaws who ran the water between them.
The backstaff, or cross-staff, was an essential navigational instrument used by pirates and merchant sailors alike from the 1600s onward. It measured the sun's altitude above the horizon without requiring the observer to face the…
View this exhibit →A lobby map that remembers where you’ve been and what you still want to see.
A curator stands in every room to answer your questions, in voice or text.
Puzzles drawn from each gallery’s own vocabulary — earn a certificate of passage.
Urbanicity is a place to think, not a place to be sold to. Your visit is yours: we remember your route only to draw your own map.