NC Maritime Museum, Beaufort

The N.C. Maritime Museum serves as the curatorial agency for the QAR artifacts, and preserves and interprets all aspects of the rich maritime heritage of the state through educational exhibits, programs and field trips. The museum is open to the public and admission is free. Phone: (252) 728-7317 or you can visit their web site at: http://www.ncmaritimemuseum.org

Dr. David Nateman, Ph.D., Art Education, Ohio State University.Formerly of the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida. Previously assistant professor at East Carolina University, art specialist at the Oakwood School in Greenville, N.C., assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, and assistant professor at Teachers College,
Columbia University, New York.

JoAnne Powell, Director of education for the Maritime Museum for 10 years, and a museum educator for more than 25 years. She has attended and conducted many workshops on museum education and visitor services. Powell supervises the museum's educational and public information activities, branch publications, special events and volunteers. She presents public and special group programs about Blackbeard and the QAR shipwreck, and through the National Park Service, has completed work funded by the National Museum Heritage Trust to develop educational materials and programs about piracy, Blackbeard and the QAR. Powell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in biological science from the University of California-Davis.

Michelle McConnell , Public Information. Because of its public presence, the Museum is the first place the public or media contact about Blackbeard and QAR. Michelle handles requests for photographs, information, updates, interviews, and photo shoots. She also writes and sends news releases about artifacts on exhibit, the traveling exhibit, the Repository, and any QAR related Museum programs.

David Moore, Maritime Museum researcher, has served as nautical archaeologist for the states of Florida and North Carolina and conducted field research on over 130 shipwrecks, dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries during 20 years in maritime history and shipwreck research. Using robotic technology, Moore conducted the structural investigation of three 17th century Spanish galleons. He was principal investigator of the Henrietta Marie Project, and completed his master's thesis on the historical and archaeological investigations of this significant slave ship, now the subject of a nationwide touring exhibition. In 1982, he began research to locate Blackbeard's shipwrecks and continues his research on QAR and related topics. He was awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree in environmental science by UNC-Wilmington, the Master of Arts degree in maritime history and nautical archaeology by East Carolina University. He has published numerous articles about his research in professional journals.

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