List of maritime museums in the United States

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	Kodiak Maritime Museum	[3]
Arkansas	Little Rock	Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum	[4]
California	Dana Point	Orange County Marine Institute	[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	Morro Bay, California	Morro Bay Maritime Museum	[12]
California	Newport Beach	Newport Harbor Maritime Museum	[13]	Y
California	Oxnard	Channel Islands (Ventura County) Maritime Museum	[14]
California	Port Hueneme	US Navy SeaBee Museum	[15]
California	Richmond	Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site	[16]
California	Samoa	Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum	[17]
California	San Diego	San Diego Maritime Museum	[18]	Y
California	San Francisco	San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park	[19]	Y
California	San Francisco	San Francisco Maritime National Park Association, USS Pampanito	[20]	Y
California	San Francisco	National Liberty Ship Memorial	[21]
California	San Pedro	Los Angeles Maritime Museum	[22]
California	Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara Maritime Museum	[23]	Y
California	Sausalito	Spaulding Wooden Boat Center	[24]
California	Vallejo	Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum	[25]
Connecticut	Bridgeport	Captain's Cove Seaport	[26]
Connecticut	Essex Village	Connecticut River Museum	[27]	Y
Connecticut	Groton	U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum	[28]
Connecticut	Mystic	Mystic Seaport Museum	[29]	Y
Connecticut	New London	Custom House Maritime Museum	[30]
Connecticut	New London	US Coast Guard Museum	[31]	Y
Delaware	Fenwick Island	Discover Sea Shipwreck Museum	[32]
Delaware	Georgetown	Treasures of the Sea	[33]
Delaware	Lewes	Cannonball House and Marine Museum	[34]
Delaware	Lewes	United States lightship Overfalls (LV-118)	[35]
Delaware	Rehoboth Beach	Indian River Lifesaving Station Museum	[36]
Delaware	Wilmington	Kalmar Nyckel Foundation	[37]	Y
District of Columbia	Washington, DC	National Museum of the United States Navy	[38]	Y
District of Columbia	Washington, DC	Naval History & Heritage Command	[39]
District of Columbia	Washington, DC	Navy Art Collection	[40]
Florida	Apalachicola	Apalachicola Maritime Museum	[41] Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
Florida	Daytona Beach	Daytona Maritime Museum	[42]
Florida	DeLand	DeLand Naval Air Station Museum	[43]
Florida	Fort Pierce	National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum	[44]
Florida	Jacksonville	Jacksonville Maritime Heritage Center	[45]
Florida	Key West	Key West Shipwreck Historeum Museum	[46]
Florida	Key West	Lighthouse Museum & Keepers Quarters Museum	[47]
Florida	Key West	Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum	[48]
Florida	Fort Lauderdale	Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum	[49]
Florida	Panama City Beach	Man in the Sea Museum	[50] Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
Florida	Pensacola	National Naval Aviation Museum	[51]
Florida	St. Augustine	St. Augustine Light	[52]
Florida	St. Augustine	The Lyons Maritime Museum	[53]
Florida	Sebastian	Mel Fisher's Treasure Museum	[54]
Florida	Seminole	Panama Canal Museum	[55]	Y
Florida	Stuart	House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar	[56]
Florida	Stuart	Maritime & Yachting Museum	[57]
Florida	Tampa	SS American Victory Mariners Museum	[58]
Florida	Vero Beach	McLarty Treasure Museum	[59] Archived 2007-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
Florida	West Palm Beach	Palm Beach Maritime Museum	[60]
Georgia	Athens	Navy Supply Corps Museum
Georgia	Columbus	National Civil War Naval Museum	[61]
Georgia	St. Marys	St. Marys Submarine Museum	[62]
Georgia	St. Simons Island	St. Simons Island Lighthouse Museum	[63]
Georgia	Savannah	Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum	[64]	Y
Hawaii	Honolulu	Hawaii Maritime Center	[65]	Y
Hawaii	Lahaina	Whalers Village Museum	[66]
Hawaii	Pearl Harbor	USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park	[67]
Illinois	Chicago	Chicago Maritime Museum	[68]
Illinois	Naval Station Great Lakes	Great Lakes Naval Museum	[69]
Indiana	Delphi	Wabash & Erie Canal Interpretive Center	[70]
Indiana	Jeffersonville	Howard Steamboat Museum	[71]
Indiana	Michigan City	Old Michigan City Light	[72]
Iowa	Dubuque	National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium	[73]
Iowa	Keokuk	George M. Verity River Museum	[74]
Kansas	Olathe	Old Olathe Naval Air Museum	[75]
Kansas	Wichita	Wichita Boathouse	[76]
Kentucky	Paducah	River Heritage Museum	[77] Archived 2008-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
Louisiana	Baton Rouge	USS Kidd Veterans Museum	[78]
Louisiana	Madisonville	Maritime Museum Louisiana	[79]
Louisiana	Plaquemine	Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site	[80]
Louisiana	Lake Charles	USS Orleck Naval Museum	[81]
Maine	Bath	Maine Maritime Museum	[82]	Y
Maine	Bristol	Fisherman's Museum	[83]
Maine	Cape Elizabeth	Portland Head Light	[84]
Maine	Eastport	Quoddy Maritime Museum
Maine	Georgetown	Seguin Island Light Station	[85]
Maine	Greenville	Moosehead Marine Museum	[86]
Maine	Kittery	Kittery Historical and Naval Museum	[87]
Maine	Northeast Harbor	Great Harbor Maritime Museum	[88]
Maine	Port Clyde	Marshall Point Lighthouse Museum	[89]
Maine	Portland	Portland Harbor Museum	[90]	Y
Maine	Rockland	Maine Lighthouse Museum	[91]
Maine	Searsport	Penobscot Marine Museum	[92]	Y
Maine	Swan's Island	Swan's Island Lobster & Marine Museum	[93]
Maine	Thomaston	Maine Watercraft Museum	[94]
Maryland	Annapolis	Annapolis Maritime Museum	[95]
Maryland	Annapolis	U.S. Naval Academy Museum	[96]	Y
Maryland	Baltimore	Baltimore Maritime Museum	[97]
Maryland	Baltimore	Frederick Douglas Isaac Myers Maritime Park	[98]
Maryland	Baltimore	Fells Point Maritime Museum	[99]	Y
Maryland	Cambridge	Richardson Maritime Museum	[100]
Maryland	Chesapeake City	Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Museum	[101]
Maryland	Havre de Grace	Havre de Grace Maritime Museum	[102]
Maryland	North East	Upper Bay Museum	[103]
Maryland	Ocean City	Ocean City Life-Saving Station	[104]
Maryland	Patuxent River	Patuxent River Naval Air Museum	[105]
Maryland	Piney Point	Piney Point Lighthouse Museum	[106]
Maryland	Rock Hall	Waterman's Museum	[107]
Maryland	St. Michaels	Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum	[108]	Y
Maryland	Shady Side	Captain Salem Avery House Museum	[109]
Maryland	Solomons	Calvert Marine Museum	[110]	Y
Maryland	West Denton	Joppa Wharf Museum	[111]
Massachusetts	Barnstable	Coast Guard Heritage Museum	[112]
Massachusetts	Billerica	Middlesex Canal Museum	[113]
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Marine Museum
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum	[114]
Massachusetts	Boston	USS Constitution Museum	[115]
Massachusetts	Cambridge	Hart Nautical Gallery	[116]	Y
Massachusetts	Charlestown	Charlestown Navy Yard	[117]
Massachusetts	Cohasset	Cohasset Historical Society's Maritime Museum	[118]
Massachusetts	Essex	Essex Shipbuilding Museum	[119]	Y
Massachusetts	Fall River	Battleship Cove	[120]
Massachusetts	Fall River	Marine Museum at Fall River	[121]
Massachusetts	Gloucester	Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center	[122]
Massachusetts	Gloucester	Cape Ann Museum	[123]
Massachusetts	Hull	Hull Lifesaving Museum	[124]	Y
Massachusetts	Hyannis	Cape Cod Maritime Museum	[125]
Massachusetts	Indian Orchard	Titanic Museum	[126]
Massachusetts	Nantucket	Nantucket Historical Association	[127]	Y
Massachusetts	Nantucket	Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum	[128]	Y
Massachusetts	New Bedford	New Bedford Whaling Museum	[129]	Y
Massachusetts	Newburyport	Custom House Maritime Museum	[130]
Massachusetts	Osterville	Crosby Boat Yard	[131]
Massachusetts	Provincetown	Whydah Museum	[132]
Massachusetts	Quincy	United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum	[133]
Massachusetts	Salem	Peabody Essex Museum	[134] Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine	Y
Massachusetts	Salem	Salem Maritime National Historic Site	[135]	Y
Massachusetts	Scituate	Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum	[136]
Massachusetts	Truro	Cape Cod Highland Light	[137]
Michigan	Alpena	Great Lakes Maritime Heritage	[138]
Michigan	Cedarville	Les Cheneaux Maritime Museum	[139]
Michigan	Copper Harbor	Copper Harbor Lighthouse	[140]
Michigan	Detroit	Dossin Great Lakes Museum	[141]
Michigan	Douglas	Keewatin Maritime Museum	[142]
Michigan	Eagle Harbor	Eagle Harbor Light	[143]
Michigan	Glen Arbor	Sleeping Bear Point Lifesaving Station	[144]
Michigan	Glen Haven	Cannery Boathouse Museum	[145]
Michigan	Grand Marais	Grand Marais Maritime Museum or Pictured Rocks Nautical and Maritime Museum	[146]
Michigan	Gulliver	Seul Choix Light	[147]
Michigan	Harrisville	Sturgeon Point Light	[148]
Michigan	Marquette	Marquette Maritime Museum	[149]
Michigan	Muskegon	USS Silversides Submarine Museum	[150]
Michigan	Northport	Grand Traverse Light	[151]
Michigan	Paradise	Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum	[152]
Michigan	Port Hope	Pointe aux Barques Light	[153] Archived 2009-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
Michigan	Rogers City	Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum	[154]
Michigan	Sault Ste. Marie	River of History Museum	[155]
Michigan	Sault Ste. Marie	Soo Locks Visitor Center	[156]
Michigan	South Haven	Michigan Maritime Museum	[157]	Y
Michigan	White Hall	White River Light	[158]
Minnesota	Alexandria	Minnesota Lakes Maritime Museum	[159]
Minnesota	Duluth	Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center	[160]
Minnesota	Tofte	North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum	[161]
Minnesota	Two Harbors	Split Rock Light	[162]
Mississippi	Biloxi	Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum	[163]
Missouri	Branson	The Titanic Museum	[164]
Missouri	Kansas City	Steamboat Arabia Museum	[165]
Nebraska	Brownville	Museum of Missouri River History	[166]
Nebraska	Omaha	Freedom Park Navy Museum	[167]
New Hampshire	Portsmouth, New Hampshire	USS Albacore (AGSS-569)	[168]
New Hampshire	Wolfeboro	New Hampshire Boat Museum	[169]
New Jersey	Beach Haven	Museum of New Jersey Maritime History	[170]
New Jersey	Camden	Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial
New Jersey	Greenwich Township	John DuBois Maritime Museum	[171]
New Jersey	Hackensack	New Jersey Naval Museum	[172]
New Jersey	Linwood	Jim Kirk Maritime Museum	[173]
New Jersey	Lower Township	Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum	[174]
New Jersey	Point Pleasant	New Jersey Museum of Boating	[175]
New Jersey	Toms River	Toms River Seaport Society Maritime Museum	[176]	Y
New Jersey	Tuckerton	Tuckerton Seaport	[177]	Y
New York	Buffalo	Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park	[178]
New York	Buffalo	Lower Lakes Marine Historical Society	[179]
New York	Buffalo	Buffalo Maritime Center	[180]
New York	Cape Vincent	Tibbetts Point Light	[181]
New York	Chittenango	Chittenango Landing Boat Museum	[182]
New York	Clayton	Antique Boat Museum	[183]	Y
New York	Cold Spring Harbor	Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum	[184]	Y
New York	Dunkirk	Dunkirk Light	[185]
New York	East Hampton	East Hampton Town Marine Museum	[186]	Y
New York	Greenport	East End Seaport Maritime Museum	[187]	Y
New York	Hammondsport	Finger Lakes Boating Museum	[188]
New York	High Falls	Delaware and Hudson Canal Museum	[189]
New York	Kings Point	American Merchant Marine Museum	[190]	Y
New York	Kingston	Hudson River Maritime Museum	[191]	Y
New York	Lockport	Erie Canal Discovery Center	[192]
New York	Montauk Point	Montauk Point Light	[193]
New York	New York City	City Island Nautical Museum	[194]
New York	New York City	Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum	[195]
New York	New York City	Maritime Industry Museum	[196]
New York	New York City	New Netherland Museum	[197]
New York	New York City	Museum of Maritime Navigation and Communication	[198]
New York	New York City	Noble Maritime Collection	[199]
New York	New York City	South Street Seaport Museum	[200]	Y
New York	New York City	Waterfront Museum	[201]
New York	Oswego	H. Lee White Marine Museum	[202]
New York	Sag Harbor	Sag Harbor Whaling Museum	[203]
New York	Skenesborough	Skenesborough Museum	[204]
New York	Sodus Point	Sodus Point Light	[205]
New York	West Sayville	Long Island Maritime Museum	[206]	Y
New York	Syracuse	Erie Canal Museum	[207]	Y
North Carolina	Beaufort	North Carolina Maritime Museum	[208] Archived 2008-06-18 at the Wayback Machine	Y
North Carolina	Hatteras	Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum	[209]	Y
North Carolina	Manteo	North Carolina Maritime Museum on Roanoke Island	[210]
North Carolina	Rodanthe	Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station	[211]
North Carolina	Southport	North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport	[212] Archived 2009-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
North Carolina	Wilmington	North Carolina Battleship Memorial	[213]
North Dakota	Devils Lake	North Dakota Maritime Museum	[214]
Ohio	Ashtabula	Ashtabula Maritime Museum	[215]
Ohio	Fairport Harbor	Fairport Harbor Marine Museum and Lighthouse	[216]
Ohio	Marietta	Ohio River Museum	[217]
Ohio	Sandusky	Maritime Museum of Sandusky	[218]
Ohio	Toledo	National Museum of the Great Lakes	[219]
Ohio	Vermilion	Inland Seas Maritime Museum	[220]	Y
Oklahoma	Catoosa	Arkansas River Historical Society Museum	[221]
Oregon	Astoria	Columbia River Maritime Museum	[222]	Y
Oregon	North Bend	Coos Historical & Maritime Museum	[223]
Oregon	Port Orford	Port Orford Lifeboat Station	[224]
Oregon	Portland	Oregon Maritime Museum	[225]
Pennsylvania	Erie	Erie Maritime Museum	[226]	Y
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Independence Seaport Museum	[227]	Y
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild	[228]
Rhode Island	Bristol	Herreshoff Marine Museum	[229] Archived 2007-12-29 at the Wayback Machine	Y
Rhode Island	Newport	Museum of Yachting	[230]	Y
Rhode Island	Newport	Naval War College Museum	[231]
Rhode Island	Warwick	Steamship Historical Society of America	[232]	Y
South Carolina	Charleston	Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum	[233]	Y
Tennessee	Memphis	Mississippi River Museum	[234]
Texas	Corpus Christi	USS Lexington on the Bay Museum	[235]
Texas	Fredericksburg	Chester Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War	[236]
Texas	Galveston	Seawolf Park	[237]
Texas	Galveston	Texas Seaport Museum	[238]	Y
Texas	Galveston	Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum	[239]
Texas	Houston	Houston Maritime Museum	[240]
Texas	Rockport	Texas Maritime Museum	[241]
Vermont	Vergennes	Lake Champlain Maritime Museum	[242]	Y
Virginia	Deltaville	Deltaville Maritime Museum	[243]	Y
Virginia	Irvington	Steamboat Era Museum	[244]
Virginia	Kinsale	Kinsale Maritime Museum	[245]
Virginia	Mathews	Mathews Maritime Museum	[246]
Virginia	Morattico	Morattico Maritime Museum	[247]
Virginia	Newport News	Mariners' Museum and Park, the official National Maritime Museum	[248]	Y
Virginia	Norfolk	Hampton Roads Naval Museum	[249] Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine	Y
Virginia	Portsmouth	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum	[250]	Y
Virginia	Quantico	National Museum of the Marine Corps	[251] Archived 2006-05-02 at the Wayback Machine
Virginia	Reedville	Reedville Fisherman's Museum	[252]	Y
Virginia	Virginia Beach	Virginia Beach Surf & Rescue Museum	[253]	Y
Virginia	Yorktown	Waterman’s Museum	[254]
Washington	Aberdeen	Grays Harbor Historical Seaport	[255]
Washington	Anacortes	Anacortes History Museum	[256]	Y
Washington	Bellingham	Bellingham International Maritime Museum	[257]
Washington	Blaine	Semiahmoo Park Maritime Museum	[258]
Washington	Bremerton	Puget Sound Navy Museum	[259]
Washington	Keyport	Naval Undersea Museum	[260]
Washington	Raymond	Willapa Seaport Museum	[261]
Washington	Seattle	Center for Wooden Boats	[262]	Y
Washington	Seattle	Coast Guard Museum/Northwest	[263]
Washington	Seattle	Northwest Seaport	[264]	Y
Washington	Seattle	Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center	[265]
Washington	Seattle	Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society	[266]	Y
Washington	Tacoma	Working Waterfront Maritime Museum	[267]
Washington	Westport	Westport Maritime Museum	[268]	Y
West Virginia	Point Pleasant	Point Pleasant River Museum	[269]
Wisconsin	Bayfield	Bayfield Maritime Museum	[270]
Wisconsin	Gills Rock	Gills Rock Museum	[271]
Wisconsin	Manitowoc	Wisconsin Maritime Museum	[272]	Y
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	Milwaukee Maritime Center	[273]
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	Wisconsin Marine Historical Society	http://www.wmhs.org/]
Wisconsin	Port Washington	Port Washington Historical Society Light House Museum	[274]
Wisconsin	Sturgeon Bay	Door County Maritime Museum	[275]	Y

See also

• U.S. Navy museums

References

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