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 Organized by National Geographic and Arts and Exhibitions International (AEI), Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship explores the classical age of piracy through the discovery of the Whydah, the first fully authenticated pirate ship ever to be found in U.S. waters.
Several individuals helped participate in the development and creation of the exhibition:
Barry Clifford
In 1984—exactly 267 years after the Whydah sank—the ship was located by underwater explorer Barry Clifford, who had spent years looking for the wreck. After more than two decades, Clifford is still actively excavating the site and continues to bring gold and silver to the surface, as well as everyday items that shed light on the “Golden Age of Piracy.”
To learn more about the discovery of the Whydah and the explorer who found her, skip to Barry Clifford’s Biography.
Ken Kinkor
Ken Kinkor is the director of the Expedition Whydah Sea Lab and Learning Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where selected artifacts from the pirate shipwreck, Whydah, are displayed. He has served as the consulting historian for this collection and director of research for explorer Barry Clifford. Kinkor lectures and writes on New England's colonial maritime history and has conducted editorial work and historical research for a wide variety of media.
Sharon Simpson
Sharon Simpson is a writer and producer who works with a wide range of informal educational institutions and media organizations including museums, science centers, and large-format film companies. She lives in New York City.
The Advisory Panel
To ensure excellence, accuracy, and balance in developing the content for Real Pirates, National Geographic and AEI formed an Advisory Panel of academic and other scholarly experts. Feedback from this Advisory Panel contributed greatly to the creation of the exhibition, which tells the multi-dimensional story of a tumultuous period of American and world history through the discovery of the Whydah.
To learn more about the scholars who participated in the exhibition development process, skip to the Advisory Panel Members.
Continue through Exhibition Curators: Barry Clifford. >>
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