Buffalo Maritime Center

Cause Area

  • Children & Youth
  • Community
  • Education & Literacy

Location

90 ARTHUR STBUFFALO, NY 14207 United States
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Mission Statement

It is the Buffalo Maritime Center’s mission to study and celebrate the rich maritime heritage of the Niagara Frontier, to preserve the use of traditional hands-on skills, methods and values inherent in the maritime tradition, and to encourage and promote public access to the area’s historic waterfront and waterways.

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The Buffalo Maritime Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational institution. The Maritime Center functions as an intergenerational community center where volunteers of all ages are trained to mentor young people in practical life skills during the regular work week, after school and on weekends.

Using boats and boatbuilding as the lure the Center is a safe place for kids and adults where the traditional values of self-discipline, self-sufficiency and a craftsman-like attitude are intrinsic to the work of building a wooden boat.

BMC staff and volunteers are organized to offer hands on traditional skills classes and workshops that focus on wooden boats and boatbuilding for academic credit, for technical arts education in grades 5 through adult education levels, and to the general public for quality of life improvement in the community. A core belief at BMC is that there is dignity and joy to be found in performing good meaningful work with our hands.

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