Marquette Maritime Museum
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  • Home
  • About
  • Calendar of Events
  • Marquette Lighthouse
  • Online GIFT SHOP
  • Exhibits
  • Partners and Support
  • Marquette Attractions
  • News
  • Ghosts of LH Point
  • DONATE

About Us

 The Marquette Maritime Museum's mission is to protect and preserve the maritime history of Marquette, Lake Superior, and all the Great Lakes, and to remember our submarine veterans. The Museum, a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit,  opened in the old City Waterworks building in June of 1984. The building (1891) is a one-story, stone, hipped-roof Richardsonian Romanesque style structure with a parapeted front gable and rounded arch windows designed by architect D. Fred Charlton.  


We are proud of the education we provide to area schools in the form of free fieldtrips to the Museum and Lighthouse and free children’s art/history workshops.  Contact us at mqtmaritimemanager@gmail.com for information on free school fieldtrips. We also offer a winter lecture series, Maritime History on Tap, at the Ore Dock Brewing Company and yearly events such as a Lyle gun demonstration and Ghosts of Lighthouse Point fundraiser.  Check out our current events on the  Calendar of Events page.

Map of Marquette Maritime Museum

Parking

There is a paved lot off of Lakeshore Blvd, located between the Water Treatment Building and the U.S. Coast Guard Station. The Museum entrance is on the lake side. 

Another option is to turn east on Arch Street (closest street to the north of the Museum) and park in the lot between the lake and the 1891 US Life-Saving Service building or in the lot in front of the Museum building. The last option is to park at Mattson Lower Harbor Park or McCarty's Cove and take the short walk along the multi-use path. The path brings you right to the Maritime Museum. 

 

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Board of Directors and Staff

Marquette Maritime Museum utilizes a Board of Directors, a Museum Director, Assistant Director/Gift Shop Manager, front-desk staff, artists, historians, Lake Superior weather and science experts, and an excellent group of volunteers.


2023 Board of Directors

Frederick Stonehouse, President
Kurt Fosburg, Vice President
David Northey, Treasurer
Lee Rowe, Secretary 

Dan Fountain

Susan Hill

Scott Porter
Charon Porter
Dr. K. Charles Wright
Frank Donckers
Elizabeth Yelland


Staff

Director –  Hilary Billman 

mqtmaritimemanager@gmail.com

Assistant Director & Gift Shop Manager – Beth Stover 

mqtmmassistant@gmail.com

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