We had an Amazing Time!
First seen on PBS - A Taste of History.

The grounds surrounding the museum are beautiful right on the water.
The tall ship actually sails.
A great day trip.
We attended the Halloween Ghost Ship event. Pumpkin painting 🖼️, blacksmith workshop, craft making, toy boat building, tour of the tall ship 🚢 and a self guided museum tour.

The museum is very informative with some hands on items. The sail is absolutely fantastic! The entire crew’s goal is to make sure everyone has a terrific time, safely. They’re extremely helpful, informative, knowledgeable, professional, and extremely friendly. I would absolutely do this again any time. Highly worthwhile. Very glad that we did it!

Great small experience on a large sailing ship on Wilmington. The ride was a bit short and the raising if the sails was way too quick, but it gives you a taste of what the work would have been on these ships years ago. Not ready at all. Glad they are preserving the past.

Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, Wilmington Delaware on the Christina River is the #1 Tall Ship Sail Training Facility in North America, they provide Crew training, education sails and programing, public sails and private charters. The Kalmar Nyckel Tall Ship is a recreation of the original Swedish Royal Navy vessel turned Armed Merchant ship , Originally built by the Dutch in 1627, purchased by Sweden in 1629, named Kalmar Nyckel which translates as the Key of Kalmar, which this ship sat in waters off Kalmar Sweden , and in order to enter the city one must sail past Kalmar Nyckel, quite literally becoming " the Key of Kalmar" she was later Commissioned by the Ships Company to sail to the New World and establish a colony and for the Fur trade Expedition, so the Company hired Peter Minuit to lead the expedition. And so after a long and arduous journey across the Atlantic, Peter Minuit and the Ship arrived 1638 on the Christina River, at a place called " the Rocks " current Fort Christina Park, and established a new colony of New Sweden, they accomplished this by trading with the Linae Lenape natives giving gifts of Red Duffel Cloth, glass beads, Iron, Copper and other items foreign to these indigenous peoples, in return the Sachem allowed them to settle interdispersed and awarded them with Beaver pelts and Skins.....

This is just the tip of Historic Preservation mentioned above. The Foundations Museum and Programming is way more detailed and in depth , hands and eyes on experience than I could verbalize here, if I was to do so , I could write for hours, maybe even a whole day.

Take my word and come Check it out

Had a blast cruising up the Christina river. The crew and other passengers made the day even more enjoyable. The museum gave a lot of historical information that is not so easy to find.