The Marquette Maritime Museum is part of an active lighthouse with guided tours of the museum that is housed in the old city waterworks building as well as tours of Marquette Harbor Lighthouse. Nearly 12,000 visitors a year pay tribute to the area’s maritime history and honor the submarine veterans who’ve kept the waters safe. The museum features displays that teach guests about the functions of the lighthouse and tell the tragic tales of two infamous shipwrecks in the waters of Lake Superior, the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 and the Henry B. Smith in 1913. Storms and rough waters in the icy month of November took down each of these massive vessels, crew and all.

300 North Lakeshore Boulevard, Marquette, Michigan 49855, Phone: 906-226-2006

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