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
Alabama Mobile GulfQuest Maritime Museum
Alaska Kodiak Kodiak Maritime Museum
Arkansas Little Rock Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum
California Dana Point Orange County Marine Institute
California Alameda USS Hornet Museum
California China Lake Naval Museum of Armament & Technology
California Homewood Tahoe Maritime Museum
California Los Angeles Battleship USS Iowa Museum
California Monterey Monterey Maritime and History Museum Y
California Newport Beach Newport Harbor Maritime Museum Y
California Oxnard Channel Islands (Ventura County) Maritime Museum
California Port Hueneme US Navy SeaBee Museum
California Richmond Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site
California Samoa Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum
California San Diego San Diego Maritime Museum Y
California San Francisco San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park Y
California San Francisco National Maritime Museum Association
California San Francisco National Liberty Ship Memorial
California San Pedro Los Angeles Maritime Museum
California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Y
California Sausalito Spaulding Wooden Boat Center
California Vallejo Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum
Connecticut Bridgeport Captain's Cove Seaport
Connecticut Essex Village Connecticut River Museum Y
Connecticut Groton U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum
Connecticut Mystic Mystic Seaport Museum Y
Connecticut New London Custom House Maritime Museum
Connecticut New London US Coast Guard Museum Y
Delaware Fenwick Island Discover Sea Shipwreck Museum
Delaware Georgetown Treasures of the Sea
Delaware Lewes Cannonball House and Marine Museum
Delaware Lewes United States lightship Overfalls (LV-118)
Delaware Rehoboth Beach Indian River Lifesaving Station Museum
District of Columbia Washington, DC National Museum of the United States Navy Y
District of Columbia Washington, DC Naval History & Heritage Command
District of Columbia Washington, DC Navy Art Collection
Florida Apalachicola Apalachicola Maritime Museum
Florida Daytona Beach Daytona Maritime Museum
Florida DeLand DeLand Naval Air Station Museum
Florida Fort Pierce National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum
Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Maritime Heritage Center
Florida Key West Key West Shipwreck Historeum Museum
Florida Key West Lighthouse Museum & Keepers Quarters Museum
Florida Key West Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum
Florida Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum
Florida Panama City Beach Man in the Sea Museum
Florida Pensacola National Naval Aviation Museum
Florida Seminole Panama Canal Museum
Florida St. Augustine St. Augustine Light
Florida St. Augustine The Lyons Maritime Museum
Florida Sebastian Mel Fisher's Treasure Museum
Florida Seminole Panama Canal Museum Y
Florida Stuart House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar
Florida Stuart Maritime & Yachting Museum
Florida Tampa SS American Victory Mariners Museum
Florida Vero Beach McLarty Treasure Museum
Florida West Palm Beach Palm Beach Maritime Museum
Georgia Athens Navy Supply Corps Museum
Georgia Columbus National Civil War Naval Museum
Georgia St. Simons Island St. Simons Island Lighthouse Museum
Georgia Savannah Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum Y
Hawaii Honolulu Hawaii Maritime Center Y
Hawaii Lahaina Whalers Village Museum
Hawaii Pearl Harbor USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park
Illinois Chicago Chicago Maritime Museum
Illinois Naval Station Great Lakes Great Lakes Naval Museum
Indiana Delphi Wabash & Erie Canal Interpretive Center
Indiana Jeffersonville Howard Steamboat Museum
Indiana Michigan City Old Michigan City Light
Iowa Dubuque National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
Iowa Keokuk George M. Verity River Museum
Kansas Olathe Old Olathe Naval Air Museum
Kansas Wichita Wichita Boathouse
Kentucky Paducah River Heritage Museum
Louisiana Baton Rouge USS Kidd Veterans Museum
Louisiana Madisonville Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum
Louisiana Plaquemine Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site
Louisiana Lake Charles USS Orleck Naval Museum
Maine Bath Maine Maritime Museum Y
Maine Bristol Fisherman's Museum
Maine Cape Elizabeth Portland Head Light
Maine Eastport Quoddy Maritime Museum
Maine Georgetown Seguin Island Light Station
Maine Greenville Moosehead Marine Museum
Maine Kittery Kittery Historical and Naval Museum
Maine Northeast Harbor Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Maine Port Clyde Marshall Point Lighthouse Museum
Maine Portland Portland Harbor Museum Y
Maine Rockland Maine Lighthouse Museum
Maine Searsport Penobscot Marine Museum Y
Maine Swan's Island Swan's Island Lobster & Marine Museum
Maine Thomaston Maine Watercraft Museum
Maryland Annapolis Annapolis Maritime Museum
Maryland Annapolis U.S. Naval Academy Museum Y
Maryland Baltimore Baltimore Maritime Museum
Maryland Baltimore Frederick Douglas Isaac Myers Maritime Park
Maryland Baltimore Fells Point Maritime Museum Y
Maryland Cambridge Richardson Maritime Museum
Maryland Chesapeake City Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Museum
Maryland Havre de Grace Havre de Grace Maritime Museum
Maryland North East Upper Bay Museum
Maryland Ocean City Ocean City Life-Saving Station
Maryland Patuxent River Patuxent River Naval Air Museum
Maryland Piney Point Piney Point Lighthouse Museum
Maryland Rock Hall Waterman's Museum
Maryland St. Michaels Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Y
Maryland Shady Side Captain Salem Avery House Museum
Maryland Solomons Calvert Marine Museum Y
Maryland West Denton Joppa Wharf Museum
Massachusetts Barnstable Coast Guard Heritage Museum
Massachusetts Billerica Middlesex Canal Museum
Massachusetts Boston Boston Marine Museum
Massachusetts Boston Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum
Massachusetts Boston USS Constitution Museum
Massachusetts Cambridge Hart Nautical Gallery Y
Massachusetts Charlestown Charlestown Navy Yard
Massachusetts Cohasset Cohasset Historical Society's Maritime Museum
Massachusetts Essex Essex Shipbuilding Museum Y
Massachusetts Fall River Battleship Cove
Massachusetts Fall River Marine Museum at Fall River
Massachusetts Gloucester Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
Massachusetts Gloucester Cape Ann Museum
Massachusetts Hull Hull Lifesaving Museum Y
Massachusetts Hyannis Cape Cod Maritime Museum
Massachusetts Indian Orchard Titanic Museum
Massachusetts Nantucket Nantucket Historical Association Y
Massachusetts Nantucket Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum Y
Massachusetts New Bedford New Bedford Whaling Museum Y
Massachusetts Newburyport Custom House Maritime Museum
Massachusetts Osterville Crosby Boat Yard
Massachusetts Provincetown Whydah Museum
Massachusetts Quincy United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
Massachusetts Salem Peabody Essex Museum Y
Massachusetts Salem Salem Maritime National Historic Site Y
Massachusetts Scituate Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum
Massachusetts Truro Cape Cod Highland Light
Michigan Alpena Great Lakes Maritime Heritage
Michigan Cedarville Les Cheneaux Maritime Museum
Michigan Copper Harbor Copper Harbor Lighthouse
Michigan Detroit Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Michigan Douglas Keewatin Maritime Museum
Michigan Eagle Harbor Eagle Harbor Light
Michigan Glen Arbor Sleeping Bear Point Lifesaving Station
Michigan Glen Haven Cannery Boathouse Museum
Michigan Grand Marais Grand Marais Maritime Museum or Pictured Rocks Nautical and Maritime Museum
Michigan Gulliver Seul Choix Light
Michigan Harrisville Sturgeon Point Light
Michigan Marquette Marquette Maritime Museum
Michigan Muskegon USS Silversides Submarine Museum
Michigan Northport Grand Traverse Light
Michigan Paradise Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
Michigan Port Hope Pointe aux Barques Light
Michigan Rogers City Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum
Michigan Sault Ste. Marie River of History Museum
Michigan Sault Ste. Marie Soo Locks Visitor Center
Michigan South Haven Michigan Maritime Museum Y
Michigan White Hall White River Light
Minnesota Alexandria Minnesota Lakes Maritime Museum
Minnesota Duluth Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center
Minnesota Tofte North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum
Minnesota Two Harbors Split Rock Light
Mississippi Biloxi Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum
Missouri Branson The Titanic Museum
Missouri Kansas City Steamboat Arabia Museum
Nebraska Brownville Museum of Missouri River History
Nebraska Omaha Freedom Park Navy Museum
New Hampshire Portsmouth, New Hampshire USS Albacore (AGSS-569)
New Hampshire Wolfeboro New Hampshire Boat Museum
New Jersey Beach Haven Museum of New Jersey Maritime History
New Jersey Camden Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial
New Jersey Greenwich Township John DuBois Maritime Museum
New Jersey Hackensack New Jersey Naval Museum
New Jersey Linwood Jim Kirk Maritime Museum
New Jersey Lower Township Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum
New Jersey Point Pleasant New Jersey Museum of Boating
New Jersey Toms River Toms River Seaport Society Maritime Museum Y
New Jersey Tuckerton Tuckerton Seaport Y
New York Buffalo Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park
New York Buffalo Lower Lakes Marine Historical Society
New York Buffalo Buffalo Maritime Center
New York Cape Vincent Tibbetts Point Light
New York Chittenango Chittenango Landing Boat Museum
New York Clayton Antique Boat Museum Y
New York Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum Y
New York Dunkirk Dunkirk Light
New York East Hampton East Hampton Town Marine Museum Y
New York Greenport East End Seaport Maritime Museum Y
New York High Falls Delaware and Hudson Canal Museum
New York Kings Point American Merchant Marine Museum Y
New York Kingston Hudson River Maritime Museum Y
New York Lockport Erie Canal Discovery Center
New York Montauk Point Montauk Point Light
New York New York City City Island Nautical Museum
New York New York City Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
New York New York City Maritime Industry Museum
New York New York City New Netherland Museum
New York New York City Museum of Maritime Navigation and Communication
New York New York City Noble Maritime Collection
New York New York City South Street Seaport Museum Y
New York New York City Waterfront Museum
New York Oswego H. Lee White Marine Museum
New York Penn Yan Finger Lakes Boating Museum
New York Sag Harbor Sag Harbor Whaling Museum
New York Skenesborough Skenesborough Museum
New York Sodus Point Sodus Point Light
New York West Sayville Long Island Maritime Museum Y
New York Syracuse Erie Canal Museum Y
North Carolina Beaufort North Carolina Maritime Museum Y
North Carolina Hatteras Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum Y
North Carolina Manteo North Carolina Maritime Museum on Roanoke Island
North Carolina Rodanthe Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station
North Carolina Southport North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport
North Carolina Wilmington North Carolina Battleship Memorial
North Dakota Devils Lake North Dakota Maritime Museum
Ohio Ashtabula Ashtabula Maritime Museum
Ohio Fairport Harbor Fairport Harbor Marine Museum and Lighthouse
Ohio Marietta Ohio River Museum
Ohio Sandusky Maritime Museum of Sandusky
Ohio Toledo National Museum of the Great Lakes
Ohio Vermilion Inland Seas Maritime Museum Y
Oklahoma Catoosa Arkansas River Historical Society Museum
Oregon Astoria Columbia River Maritime Museum Y
Oregon North Bend Coos Historical & Maritime Museum
Oregon Port Orford Port Orford Lifeboat Station
Oregon Portland Oregon Maritime Museum
Pennsylvania Erie Erie Maritime Museum Y
Pennsylvania Philadelphia Independence Seaport Museum Y
Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild
Rhode Island Bristol Herreshoff Marine Museum Y
Rhode Island Newport Museum of Yachting Y
Rhode Island Newport Naval War College Museum
Rhode Island Warwick Steamship Historical Society of America Y
South Carolina Charleston Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum Y
Tennessee Memphis Mississippi River Museum
Texas Corpus Christi USS Lexington on the Bay Museum
Texas Fredericksburg Chester Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War
Texas Galveston Seawolf Park
Texas Galveston Texas Seaport Museum Y
Texas Galveston Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum
Texas Houston Houston Maritime Museum
Texas Rockport Texas Maritime Museum
Vermont Vergennes Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Y
Virginia Deltaville Deltaville Maritime Museum
Virginia Irvington Steamboat Era Museum
Virginia Kinsale Kinsale Maritime Museum
Virginia Mathews Mathews Maritime Museum
Virginia Morattico Morattico Maritime Museum
Virginia Newport News Mariners' Museum, the official National Maritime Museum Y
Virginia Norfolk Hampton Roads Naval Museum Y
Virginia Portsmouth Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum Y
Virginia Quantico National Museum of the Marine Corps
Virginia Reedville Reedville Fisherman's Museum Y
Virginia Virginia Beach Virginia Beach Surf & Rescue Museum Y
Virginia Yorktown Waterman’s Museum
Washington Aberdeen Grays Harbor Historical Seaport
Washington Anacortes Anacortes History Museum Y
Washington Bellingham Bellingham International Maritime Museum
Washington Blaine Semiahmoo Park Maritime Museum
Washington Bremerton Puget Sound Navy Museum
Washington Keyport Naval Undersea Museum
Washington Raymond Willapa Seaport Museum
Washington Seattle Center for Wooden Boats Y
Washington Seattle Coast Guard Museum/Northwest
Washington Seattle Northwest Seaport Y
Washington Seattle Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center
Washington Seattle Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society Y
Washington Tacoma Working Waterfront Maritime Museum
Washington Westport Westport Maritime Museum Y
West Virginia Point Pleasant Point Pleasant River Museum
Wisconsin Bayfield Bayfield Maritime Museum
Wisconsin Gills Rock Gills Rock Museum
Wisconsin Manitowoc Wisconsin Maritime Museum Y
Wisconsin Milwaukee Milwaukee Maritime Center
Wisconsin Milwaukee Wisconsin Marine Historical Society http://www.wmhs.org/]
Wisconsin Port Washington Port Washington Historical Society Light House Museum
Wisconsin Sturgeon Bay Door County Maritime Museum Y

See also

References
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  • Howe, Hartley Edward (1987). North America's maritime museums: an annotated guide. New York, New York: Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-1001-3.
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