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Science on the Street Cape Cod

Science on the Street is a day-long immersion in how science, technology, engineering, and math come into play—and work—in real life, right here on Cape Cod. 

Exhibits will be held at Cape Cod Community College from 11:00am-4:00pm on Saturday, October 21, 2017.  This is a great event for the whole family! Explore chemistry, experience Lego robotics, launch rockets and much more!

The Whydah Pirate Museum will be featuring hands-on excavation at this event, in conjunction with International Archaeology Day! Come learn about the museum and stop by our tables to experience the world of underwater artifact recovery. This will be our second year as an exhibitor at Science on the Street, sponsored by the Cape Cod STEM Network and in participation with Cambridge Science Festival.

See the Whydah Pirate Museum in Grossman Commons and enjoy all of the other exhibits throughout the campus in the Tilden Arts Center Lobby, Grossman Commons, and the Gymnasium. The Exhibits and parking are free!

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Massachusetts Archaeology Month

Join us this October for Massachusetts Archaeology Month. Every Friday from 3:30 to 5:00, visit the Whydah Pirate Museum for a special hands-on experience.

Free with youth admission work with our archaeologist to uncover your own “treasures!” Learn about underwater archaeology and take home your artifacts at the end of the excavation!

Ages 8 and up.

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‘This Explorer Shares Shipwrecked Treasures with the World’

Great Big Story and CNN Films Presents: This Explorer Shares Shipwrecked Treasures with the World

Barry Clifford is an explorer, an underwater archaeologists and some would even say, a treasure hunter. In 1984, he discovered the first artifacts of what would be a massive find. The Whydah was a pirate ship that sank off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717. For the past 30 years, Clifford and his team of divers, excavators and archaeologists have continued unearthing the trove, whose value is estimated at more than $400 million. But unlike most treasure hunters, he does not sell what he finds. Instead, he places the artifacts on public display at a museum, all in the interest of preserving our cultural heritage.

This Great Big Story was made in collaboration with Audi.

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Boston Globe – Pirate museum to open on Cape Cod June 25

Boston Globe – Pirate museum to open on Cape Cod June 25

A museum featuring what’s said to be the world’s only authenticated pirate coins, pistols, swords, and other artifacts, pulled from a ship that sank off Wellfleet in 1717, is opening in West Yarmouth this month.

The Whydah Pirate Museum, which is being billed as a 12,000-square-foot “treasure trove” that includes a life-size replica of the ship Whydah that can be explored, will welcome people aboard on June 25.

“There’s nothing like this to compare it to,” said Barry Clifford, who in 1984, alongside his diving team, discovered the Whydah Gally’s remains off Cape Cod. It became the first pirate ship whose identity was verified.

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