Address / locations
(Locations and Directions)
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243 Washington St Bath, ME 04530
Bath, ME
Business Hours
(Please Call to Confirm)
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monday
9:30am-5:00pm
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tuesday
9:30am-5:00pm
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wednesday
9:30am-5:00pm
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thrusday
closed
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friday
9:30am-5:00pm
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saturday
9:30am-5:00pm
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sunday
9:30am-5:00pm
About Maine Maritime Museum
Specialties: Maine Maritime Museum tells the story of Maine's bonds to the sea - past, present and future. Set on a beautiful 20-acre riverside campus, the museum provides entertaining and engaging activities for visitors of all ages. Indoors, explore air-conditioned galleries and exhibits with interactive activities for everyone and buy unique maritime gifts in the Museum store. Outdoors, see ...
Specialties: Maine Maritime Museum tells the story of Maine's bonds to the sea - past, present and future. Set on a beautiful 20-acre riverside campus, the museum provides entertaining and engaging activities for visitors of all ages. Indoors, explore air-conditioned galleries and exhibits with interactive activities for everyone and buy unique maritime gifts in the Museum store. Outdoors, see how many of the world's greatest wooden sailing ships were built as your guide takes you on a tour the intact historic Percy & Small shipyard to be awed by the life-size sculpture of Wyoming, largest of them all. Learn about lobstering; watch skilled craftsmen build wooden boats; tour; or see the remains of the last American clipper ship. Children can play on the Pirate Play Ship; captain a river tug; crank up a 3-ton steam engine and more. Seasonal attractions include "insiders" trolley tours, daily cruises to view Bath Iron Works and area lighthouses, and a Victorian-era shipbuilder's home. Open year-round. Established in 1962. In 1962, seven men launched the Marine Research Society of Bath to write a maritime history of the region and included the possibility of starting a museum. Twenty months later, the Bath Marine Museum, renamed in 1972, opened in downtown Bath. The donation of the historic Percy & Small Shipyard site in 1982 provided a focal point upon which the museum established its uniqueness. The yard had built massive wooden sailing ships, including the largest built in North America, the Wyoming. The Maritime History Building opened in 1989. A full-scale Wyoming evocation was completed in 2013. A new blacksmith shop exhibit, evocative of the only missing shipyard building, opens in 2014. MMM is one of the leading museums in New England. Its historic collections are vast with more than 23,000 objects, including the world's largest collection of shipbuilding tools. The museum's library includes more than 50,000 photographs, 12,000 books, 1,000 maps and charts, 42,000 feet of ship plans.
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