Maritime
Maritime museums specialize in preserving local shipping history, naval history, or keeping alive traditional boat-building skills and crafts. Some maritime museums include static displays of large vessels, such as the USS Missouri or the USS Constitution. Others, such as Mystic Seaport, have a collection of tall ships; some may be working vessels. The map includes research libraries specializing in maritime subjects. If your museum is not listed, send information and photos to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum Featured
The Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum houses an extensive collection of naval and maritime artifacts, including the carrier USS Yorktown, the submarine USS Clamagore, and the destroyer USS Laffey.
South Carolina Maritime Museum Featured
The South Carolina Maritime Museum preserves and interprets the maritime history of the Georgetown area of the state.
Alexandria Seaport Foundation
Through the building and use of wooden boats, the Alexandria Seaport Foundation helps young people turn their lives around and provides families, community groups, and schools with meaningful educational, social, and recreational experiences.
Alexandria Waterfront Museum
The Alexandria Waterfront Museum celebrates the history of the Alexandria waterfront and the area's canal system.
America's Cup Hall of Fame
The Herreshoff Marine Museum and America's Cup Hall of Fame is dedicated to the education and inspiration of the public through presentations of the history and innovative work of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company and the America's Cup competition.
American Merchant Marine Museum
The American Merchant Marine Museum's mission is to educate and inform visitors about the American merchant marine in a learning center for the regiment and public at large, to promote public interest in and understanding of our nation's merchant marine.
Annapolis Maritime Museum
The Annapolis Maritime Museum seeks to connect the richness of the maritime heritage of the Annapolis area with our local youth and adults. The museum operates from a waterside campus on the shores of Back Creek, with unequaled views of Annapolis Harbor.
Antique Boat Museum
From humble beginnings as a riverside gathering of antique boat enthusiasts, the Antique Boat Museum has evolved into a national institution which makes substantial economic and cultural contributions to Clayton and the North Country region.
Apalachicola Maritime Museum
The Apalachicola Maritime Museum celebrates the maritime history of Apalachicola in the form of a maritime museum, active sailing and boat building and restoration programs, educational programs and stewardship of ecosystems in the region.
Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum
The mission of the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum is to commemorate America's rich naval and maritime heritage through the preservation and exhibition of historic naval vessels with an emphasis on the era of World War II through the present.
Arkansas River Historical Society Museum
The Arkansas River Historical Society Museum focuses on the history of the Arkansas River and McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, regional benefits of the waterway, steamboat lore, cargo shipped on the waterway, and archeology.
Ashtabula Maritime Museum
Also known as the Ashtabula Maritime and Surface Transportation Museum, the Ashtabula Marine Museum is housed in the former residence of the Lighthouse Keepers and the Coast Guard Chief, built in 1871/1898, the museum contains models, paintings, marine artifacts, and photos of early Ashtabula Harbor and ore boats and tugs.
Atlantic Heritage Center
The Atlantic Heritage Center's collection includes household items and decorative arts, fine arts, weaponry, maritime artifacts, and toys.
Barnegat Light Museum
The museum is in the building that was the one-room school for Barnegat Light from 1903 to 1954.The museum is on the National Register of Historical Places. The museum features artifacts, replicas and photographs depicting the history of Barnegat Light.
Battleship Cove
Battleship Cove features several floating exhibits, including the battleship USS Massachusetts.
Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial
The Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial features the World War II-era battleship New Jersey.
Battleship South Dakota Museum
The Battleship South Dakota Museum features memorabilia of the battleship South Dakota, including a scale model of the vessel.
Beaver Island Marine Museum
Located in a historic 1906 net shed, the Beaver Island Marine Museum houses a growing collection of local maritime memorabilia.
Bellingham International Maritime Museum
The Bellingham International Maritime Museum honors, celebrates, records and preserves the rich maritime history of Bellingham, Whatcom County, and Puget Sound, with a special emphasis on the Pacific Northwest regional trans-border nautical heritage shared with Canada.
Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
Boston Tea Party Ships(sm) & Museum preserves and displays artifacts related to the Boston Tea Party. The site is closed for renovation and scheduled to reopen in 2012 with three ship replicas: Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor.