Maine Maritime Museum

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Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St, Bath, ME 04530 Maine Maritime Museum, located in Bath, Maine, offers many opportunities to explore Maine’s maritime heritage and culture.

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Two of Maine's biggest lures are lobster and lighthouses, but the state's maritime heritage goes far beyond these icons, as Maine's maritime museums aptly illustrate. It ranges from Native Americans, who paddled coastal nooks and crannies in birchbark canoes, to the early explorers, who mapped the state's 3,500 miles of coastline; from soldiers who built defensive forts to the lighthouse keepers who shined a beam on rockbound shores; from boat builders and sea captains to fishermen and cannery workers.

Maine Maritime Museum celebrates Maine’s maritime heritage and culture in order to educate the community and a worldwide audience about the important role of Maine in regional and global maritime activities.

The Maine Maritime Museum, formerly the Bath Marine Museum, offers exhibits about Maine's maritime heritage, culture and the role Maine has played in regional and global maritime activities.[2][3] The Maine Maritime Museum has a large and quirky collection, made up of more than 20,000 documents, artifacts and pieces of artwork and includes an extensive research library.