List of maritime museums in the United States

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List of maritime museums in the United States is a sortable list of American museums which display objects related to ships and water travel. Many of these maritime museums have museum ships in their collections. Member museums of the Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM) are indicated in the last column.

Museum ships not affiliated with a museum appear on a separate list of museum ships.

Table[]

State City Museum Link CAMM
Alabama Mobile Battleship Memorial Park [1]
Alabama Mobile GulfQuest Maritime Museum [2]
Alaska Kodiak [3]
Arkansas Little Rock Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum [4]
California Dana Point [5]
California Alameda USS Hornet Museum [6]
California China Lake Naval Museum of Armament & Technology [7]
California Homewood Tahoe Maritime Museum [8]
California Los Angeles Battleship USS Iowa Museum [9]
California Los Angeles Los Angeles Maritime Museum [10]
California Monterey Monterey Maritime and History Museum [11] Y
California Newport Beach [12] Y
California Oxnard [13]
California Port Hueneme [14]
California Richmond [15]
California Samoa Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum [16]
California San Diego San Diego Maritime Museum [17] Y
California San Francisco San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park [18] Y
California San Francisco [19]
California San Francisco [20]
California San Pedro Los Angeles Maritime Museum [21]
California Santa Barbara [22] Y
California Sausalito Spaulding Wooden Boat Center [23]
California Vallejo [24]
Connecticut Bridgeport [25]
Connecticut Essex Village Connecticut River Museum [26] Y
Connecticut Groton U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum [27]
Connecticut Mystic Mystic Seaport Museum [28] Y
Connecticut New London Custom House Maritime Museum [29]
Connecticut New London [30] Y
Delaware Fenwick Island [31]
Delaware Georgetown [32]
Delaware Lewes [33]
Delaware Lewes United States lightship Overfalls (LV-118) [34]
Delaware Rehoboth Beach [35]
District of Columbia Washington, DC National Museum of the United States Navy [36] Y
District of Columbia Washington, DC Naval History & Heritage Command [37]
District of Columbia Washington, DC [38]
Florida Apalachicola Apalachicola Maritime Museum [39]
Florida Daytona Beach [40]
Florida DeLand [41]
Florida Fort Pierce National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum [42]
Florida Jacksonville [43]
Florida Key West Key West Shipwreck Historeum Museum [44]
Florida Key West [45]
Florida Key West Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum [46]
Florida Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum [47]
Florida Panama City Beach Man in the Sea Museum [48]
Florida Pensacola National Naval Aviation Museum [49]
Florida Seminole Panama Canal Museum [50]
Florida St. Augustine St. Augustine Light [51]
Florida St. Augustine [52]
Florida Sebastian Mel Fisher's Treasure Museum [53]
Florida Seminole Panama Canal Museum [54] Y
Florida Stuart House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar [55]
Florida Stuart Maritime & Yachting Museum [56]
Florida Tampa [57]
Florida Vero Beach McLarty Treasure Museum [58]
Florida West Palm Beach [59]
Georgia Athens
Georgia Columbus National Civil War Naval Museum [60]
Georgia St. Simons Island St. Simons Island Lighthouse Museum [61]
Georgia Savannah Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum [62] Y
Hawaii Honolulu Hawaii Maritime Center [63] Y
Hawaii Lahaina [64]
Hawaii Pearl Harbor USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park [65]
Illinois Chicago Chicago Maritime Museum [66]
Illinois Naval Station Great Lakes Great Lakes Naval Museum [67]
Indiana Delphi Wabash & Erie Canal Interpretive Center [68]
Indiana Jeffersonville Howard Steamboat Museum [69]
Indiana Michigan City Old Michigan City Light [70]
Iowa Dubuque National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium [71]
Iowa Keokuk [72]
Kansas Olathe [73]
Kansas Wichita [74]
Kentucky Paducah [75]
Louisiana Baton Rouge USS Kidd Veterans Museum [76]
Louisiana Madisonville [77]
Louisiana Plaquemine Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site [78]
Louisiana Lake Charles USS Orleck Naval Museum [79]
Maine Bath Maine Maritime Museum [80] Y
Maine Bristol [81]
Maine Cape Elizabeth Portland Head Light [82]
Maine Eastport
Maine Georgetown [83]
Maine Greenville [84]
Maine Kittery [85]
Maine Northeast Harbor [86]
Maine Port Clyde Marshall Point Lighthouse Museum [87]
Maine Portland [88] Y
Maine Rockland [89]
Maine Searsport Penobscot Marine Museum [90] Y
Maine Swan's Island [91]
Maine Thomaston [92]
Maryland Annapolis [93]
Maryland Annapolis U.S. Naval Academy Museum [94] Y
Maryland Baltimore Baltimore Maritime Museum [95]
Maryland Baltimore [96]
Maryland Baltimore Fells Point Maritime Museum [97] Y
Maryland Cambridge [98]
Maryland Chesapeake City [99]
Maryland Havre de Grace [100]
Maryland North East [101]
Maryland Ocean City Ocean City Life-Saving Station [102]
Maryland Patuxent River Patuxent River Naval Air Museum [103]
Maryland Piney Point Piney Point Lighthouse Museum [104]
Maryland Rock Hall [105]
Maryland St. Michaels Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum [106] Y
Maryland Shady Side [107]
Maryland Solomons Calvert Marine Museum [108] Y
Maryland West Denton [109]
Massachusetts Barnstable Coast Guard Heritage Museum [110]
Massachusetts Billerica [111]
Massachusetts Boston Boston Marine Museum
Massachusetts Boston Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum [112]
Massachusetts Boston USS Constitution Museum [113]
Massachusetts Cambridge Hart Nautical Gallery [114] Y
Massachusetts Charlestown Charlestown Navy Yard [115]
Massachusetts Cohasset [116]
Massachusetts Essex Essex Shipbuilding Museum [117] Y
Massachusetts Fall River Battleship Cove [118]
Massachusetts Fall River Marine Museum at Fall River [119]
Massachusetts Gloucester [120]
Massachusetts Gloucester Cape Ann Museum [121]
Massachusetts Hull Hull Lifesaving Museum [122] Y
Massachusetts Hyannis Cape Cod Maritime Museum [123]
Massachusetts Indian Orchard [124]
Massachusetts Nantucket Nantucket Historical Association [125] Y
Massachusetts Nantucket [126] Y
Massachusetts New Bedford New Bedford Whaling Museum [127] Y
Massachusetts Newburyport Custom House Maritime Museum [128]
Massachusetts Osterville [129]
Massachusetts Provincetown [130]
Massachusetts Quincy United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum [131]
Massachusetts Salem Peabody Essex Museum [132] Y
Massachusetts Salem Salem Maritime National Historic Site [133] Y
Massachusetts Scituate [134]
Massachusetts Truro Cape Cod Highland Light [135]
Michigan Alpena Great Lakes Maritime Heritage [136]
Michigan Cedarville [137]
Michigan Copper Harbor Copper Harbor Lighthouse [138]
Michigan Detroit Dossin Great Lakes Museum [139]
Michigan Douglas Keewatin Maritime Museum [140]
Michigan Eagle Harbor Eagle Harbor Light [141]
Michigan Glen Arbor Sleeping Bear Point Lifesaving Station [142]
Michigan Glen Haven Cannery Boathouse Museum [143]
Michigan Grand Marais or [144]
Michigan Gulliver Seul Choix Light [145]
Michigan Harrisville Sturgeon Point Light [146]
Michigan Marquette Marquette Maritime Museum [147]
Michigan Muskegon USS Silversides Submarine Museum [148]
Michigan Northport Grand Traverse Light [149]
Michigan Paradise Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum [150]
Michigan Port Hope Pointe aux Barques Light [151]
Michigan Rogers City Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum [152]
Michigan Sault Ste. Marie [153]
Michigan Sault Ste. Marie Soo Locks Visitor Center [154]
Michigan South Haven Michigan Maritime Museum [155] Y
Michigan White Hall White River Light [156]
Minnesota Alexandria [157]
Minnesota Duluth Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center [158]
Minnesota Tofte North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum [159]
Minnesota Two Harbors Split Rock Light [160]
Mississippi Biloxi Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum [161]
Missouri Branson The Titanic Museum [162]
Missouri Kansas City Steamboat Arabia Museum [163]
Nebraska Brownville [164]
Nebraska Omaha [165]
New Hampshire Portsmouth, New Hampshire USS Albacore (AGSS-569) [166]
New Hampshire Wolfeboro [167]
New Jersey Beach Haven [168]
New Jersey Camden Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial
New Jersey Greenwich Township [169]
New Jersey Hackensack New Jersey Naval Museum [170]
New Jersey Linwood [171]
New Jersey Lower Township Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum [172]
New Jersey Point Pleasant [173]
New Jersey Toms River [174] Y
New Jersey Tuckerton Tuckerton Seaport [175] Y
New York Buffalo Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park [176]
New York Buffalo [177]
New York Buffalo Buffalo Maritime Center [178]
New York Cape Vincent Tibbetts Point Light [179]
New York Chittenango [180]
New York Clayton Antique Boat Museum [181] Y
New York Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum [182] Y
New York Dunkirk Dunkirk Light [183]
New York East Hampton [184] Y
New York Greenport East End Seaport Maritime Museum [185] Y
New York High Falls Delaware and Hudson Canal Museum [186]
New York Kings Point American Merchant Marine Museum [187] Y
New York Kingston Hudson River Maritime Museum [188] Y
New York Lockport [189]
New York Montauk Point Montauk Point Light [190]
New York New York City City Island Nautical Museum [191]
New York New York City Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum [192]
New York New York City Maritime Industry Museum [193]
New York New York City [194]
New York New York City [195]
New York New York City Noble Maritime Collection [196]
New York New York City South Street Seaport Museum [197] Y
New York New York City Waterfront Museum [198]
New York Oswego H. Lee White Marine Museum [199]
New York Penn Yan [200]
New York Sag Harbor Sag Harbor Whaling Museum [201]
New York Skenesborough [202]
New York Sodus Point Sodus Point Light [203]
New York West Sayville Long Island Maritime Museum [204] Y
New York Syracuse Erie Canal Museum [205] Y
North Carolina Beaufort North Carolina Maritime Museum [206] Y
North Carolina Hatteras Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum [207] Y
North Carolina Manteo North Carolina Maritime Museum on Roanoke Island [208]
North Carolina Rodanthe Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station [209]
North Carolina Southport North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport [210]
North Carolina Wilmington North Carolina Battleship Memorial [211]
North Dakota Devils Lake [212]
Ohio Ashtabula [213]
Ohio Fairport Harbor Fairport Harbor Marine Museum and Lighthouse [214]
Ohio Marietta Ohio River Museum [215]
Ohio Sandusky [216]
Ohio Toledo National Museum of the Great Lakes [217]
Ohio Vermilion [218] Y
Oklahoma Catoosa [219]
Oregon Astoria Columbia River Maritime Museum [220] Y
Oregon North Bend [221]
Oregon Port Orford Port Orford Lifeboat Station [222]
Oregon Portland Oregon Maritime Museum [223]
Pennsylvania Erie Erie Maritime Museum [224] Y
Pennsylvania Philadelphia Independence Seaport Museum [225] Y
Pennsylvania Philadelphia [226]
Rhode Island Bristol Herreshoff Marine Museum [227] Y
Rhode Island Newport Museum of Yachting [228] Y
Rhode Island Newport Naval War College Museum [229]
Rhode Island Warwick Steamship Historical Society of America [230] Y
South Carolina Charleston Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum [231] Y
Tennessee Memphis Mississippi River Museum [232]
Texas Corpus Christi [233]
Texas Fredericksburg Chester Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War [234]
Texas Galveston Seawolf Park [235]
Texas Galveston [236] Y
Texas Galveston Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum [237]
Texas Houston [238]
Texas Rockport [239]
Vermont Vergennes Lake Champlain Maritime Museum [240] Y
Virginia Deltaville [241] Y
Virginia Irvington [242]
Virginia Kinsale [243]
Virginia Mathews [244]
Virginia Morattico [245]
Virginia Newport News Mariners' Museum and Park, the official National Maritime Museum [246] Y
Virginia Norfolk Hampton Roads Naval Museum [247] Y
Virginia Portsmouth Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum [248] Y
Virginia Quantico National Museum of the Marine Corps [249]
Virginia Reedville Reedville Fisherman's Museum [250] Y
Virginia Virginia Beach Virginia Beach Surf & Rescue Museum [251] Y
Virginia Yorktown Waterman’s Museum [252]
Washington Aberdeen Grays Harbor Historical Seaport [253]
Washington Anacortes [254] Y
Washington Bellingham [255]
Washington Blaine [256]
Washington Bremerton Puget Sound Navy Museum [257]
Washington Keyport Naval Undersea Museum [258]
Washington Raymond [259]
Washington Seattle Center for Wooden Boats [260] Y
Washington Seattle Coast Guard Museum/Northwest [261]
Washington Seattle Northwest Seaport [262] Y
Washington Seattle [263]
Washington Seattle Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society [264] Y
Washington Tacoma Working Waterfront Maritime Museum [265]
Washington Westport [266] Y
West Virginia Point Pleasant [267]
Wisconsin Bayfield [268]
Wisconsin Gills Rock [269]
Wisconsin Manitowoc Wisconsin Maritime Museum [270] Y
Wisconsin Milwaukee [271]
Wisconsin Milwaukee http://www.wmhs.org/]
Wisconsin Port Washington [272]
Wisconsin Sturgeon Bay Door County Maritime Museum [273] Y

See also[]

  • U.S. Navy museums

References[]

  • Aymar, Brandt (1967). A pictorial treasury of the marine museums of the world. New York, New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. OCLC 1303121.
  • Howe, Hartley Edward (1987). North America's maritime museums: an annotated guide. New York, New York: Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-1001-3.
  • Poutre, Joseph. "Naval and Maritime Museums List United States of America". Retrieved July 3, 2008.
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  • Smith, Robert H. (2005). Smith’s guide to maritime museums of North America. Del Mar, California: C Books Publisher. ISBN 0-941786-07-2.
  • Stanford, Joseph (1990). Sea History's Guide to American and Canadian Maritime Museums. Croton-on-Hudson, New York: National Maritime Historical Society. ISBN 0-930248-03-1.
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