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"To provide a gathering place where maritime history comes alive through direct experience and our small craft heritage is enjoyed, preserved, and passed along to future generations." |
The Center for Wooden Boats believes in celebrating the North West's rich, vital and varied small craft heritage by preserving and sharing both the artifacts and the time-tested maritime skills of sailing, paddling, boatbuilding and boat maintenance. You can visit the CWB in Seattle or on Camano Island for hands-on maritime experiences using their fleet of historic wooden boats. Image by Doug van Kampen via the CWB's Flickr Pool. |
| Woices is a program that allows you to record, share, and listen to echos - audio files linked to geo-spatially significant locations. The interviews featured on this site are also available on site as customizeable audio tours, also known as walks. Listen to the history of the maritime industry while boating on Lake Union. Hear stories about the shipyards of Salmon Bay while walking along the Ship Canal.Take a walk through the History of the Craft or create your own adventure! |
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| You can access a variety of walks and echos online or on location by downloading the free woices app for your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can also download these audio files to your own playlist, print the woices map, and start exploring! |
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The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, Washington is a community-based museum actively engaged in documenting the culture and history of the wooden boat community. The CWB also seeks to enliven maritime history by facilitating a direct experience with small craft heritage though their collections, special projects, and programs. Central to the museum’s goal of facilitating a direct experience is their ability to provide variable levels of interaction with their collections both on site and online.
This project considers the role of mapping as a contemporary design strategy for developing non-object based exhibits, both online and on site, that encourage access to oral history and the continuation of asynchronous dialogue. This project aims to provide participants with a new and innovative ways to experience living history — providing multiple points of access and opportunities for interaction though contemporary design and social media.
This online exhibit was created by Whitney Ford-Terry, using interviews from  |
