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"But where's the museum?" is the question most frequently asked by visitors to the city's South Street Seaport. That's not altogether surprising. What people see as they stroll down Fulton Street toward the seaport is a cobblestoned promenade lined with refurbished 19th Century buildings and shops. Hardly what one expects of a museum.
The confusion, according to Peter Neill, the museum's new president, arises because the entire six-block area is intended to be viewed as a "museum without walls" - a concept that even some culturally attuned New Yorkers find difficult to grasp.
So Neill has come up with a bold...