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DENVER, Col. – Pirate movie buffs will have to wait until May for the release of the latest swashbuckling Hollywood blockbuster, but pirate fans can load their treasure chests with booty right now, as they feast on Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship. The world’s first exhibition of authenticated pirate artifacts, Real Pirates is on display at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science through August 21, 2011. Visitors can enhance their summer visit with exclusive pirate-themed hotel deals.
Organized by National Geographic, Arts and Exhibitions International and AEG Exhibitions, Real Pirates tells the amazing story of the Whydah, a pirate ship that sank in 1717 and rested on the bottom of the ocean for nearly 300 years, only to be discovered by underwater explorer Barry Clifford in 1984. The exhibition features more than 200 artifacts recovered from the ship wreck off the coast of Cape Cod, including treasure chests of coins, jew
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PROVINCETOWN – The pirates are moving out and the sharks are moving in.
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy announced Thursday it had signed a lease with Barry Clifford to take over space now occupied by the Expedition Whydah Museum on MacMillan Pier in Provincetown.
Clifford, who discovered the pirate ship Whydah in 1984, has had the Provincetown museum for over 20 years. He opened a larger museum in West Yarmouth in 2016.
“We’re working on (opening) another museum in Salem,” Clifford said Thursday. He said the two Cape museums were too close to one another.
At 3,100 square feet, the Whydah museum space is double the size of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Shark Center in Chatham, and Education Director Marianne Long said her organization is planning on opening a museum in the new space.