South Street Seaport Museum to Reopen Friday

The waterlogged South Street Seaport Museum has dried out and is coming back to life. Having been closed by Hurricane Sandy, the museum will reopen on Friday, officials announced Monday.

The museum, on Fulton Street, will reopen with the exhibitions, “A Fisherman's Dream: Folk Art by Mario Sanchez” and “Street Shots NYC,” featuring New York street photography. They will join the continuing exhibitions “Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions,” organized by the American Folk Art Museum, and “Romancing New York: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen.”

“Visitors will have to use stairs and accept heat blown-in from heaters sitting on the sidewalk,” Susan Henshaw Jones, director of the museum, said. “But we are ready to welcome all comers.”

Ms. Jones is also the director of the Museum of the City of New Yo rk, which last year agreed to run the Seaport Museum on a trial basis.

The storm, in October, flooded the museum, damaging its café and gift shop, electrical system, elevators, escalator and historic letterpress show.

The museum also announced the formal opening of Bowne & Co., Printers, a custom print shop, which joins the Maritime Craft Center and Mast Brothers Chocolate on Water Street's cobblestoned “artisan row.”