The Noble Maritime Collection is a maritime museum and study center focusing on the work of American artist, John A. Noble (1913-83), whose houseboat studio is its centerpiece. The museum also interprets the history of Sailors' Snug Harbor, the famous home for retired mariners.

Exhibits

The exhibition Lifespan: The Bayonne Bridge in Transition was inspired by the planned reconfiguration of the Bayonne Bridge to allow for huge modern container ship to pass beneath it. The exhibition is an homage to the bridge as it is today by contemporary artists, and an acknowledgement of engineer Othmar Ammann (1879-1965).

Permanent exhibitions focus on the history of Sailors' Snug Harbor, the first charitable institution of its kind in America.

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