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  • Free First Sundays- Humane Education Day

    Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United States

    Free First Sundays are back! The Michigan Maritime Museum is open the first Sundays of every month from November through April from 10am-5pm with FREE admission for all visitors! For our first Free Sunday of the season, join Al-Van Humane Society and the Michigan Maritime Museum from 12-3pm for a fun, hands-on afternoon all about…

  • Free Book Signing with John U. Bacon

    Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United States

    Meet acclaimed Michigan author and journalist John U. Bacon at the Michigan Maritime Museum on Thursday, November 5, from 4:00–5:00 p.m. Bacon will be signing copies of his latest book, The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Michigan Maritime Museum’s 2026 Book of the Year selection. The book offers a…

  • Book of the Year Awards Dinner

    Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United States

    Join us Thursday, November 5th from 6:00pm-8:30pm for the first annual Michigan Maritime Museum Book of the Year Award Dinner! The Museum is proud to announce The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald (2025), written by award-winning journalist and author John U. Bacon, as this year’s award recipient. Guests are invited…

  • MMM Lecture Series: USCGC MACKINAW – A Tale of Two Ships

    Lecture Series
    Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United States

    Join us for an entertaining, informative presentation by author and journalist Mike Fornes about two iconic ships that became known as the “Queen of the Great Lakes”. Since 1944, the Mackinaw has been on guard through gale-force winds, crushing ice flows and blinding snowstorms. The original ship broke ice with brute force, and the new…

  • Free First Sundays

    The Michigan Maritime Museum is open the first Sundays of every month from November through April from 10am-5pm with FREE admission for all visitors! Guests can explore the Museum’s indoor and outdoor galleries, featuring a mix of permanent and rotating exhibits that celebrate Michigan’s rich maritime history. Step aboard the Full Steam Ahead exhibit and…

  • MMM Lecture Series: Prohibition in Michigan – How the Waterways Shaped History

    Lecture Series
    Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United States

    Discover how Michigan’s rivers, lakes, and shorelines turned into front-line battlegrounds during the era of the 18th Amendment. The Detroit River, St. Clair River, and Lake Michigan were major smuggling corridors, moving liquor from Canada into cities and small towns alike. From rum-running boats and winter ice routes to organized crime, law enforcement, and everyday…

  • Free First Sundays

    The Michigan Maritime Museum is open the first Sundays of every month from November through April from 10am-5pm with FREE admission for all visitors! Guests can explore the Museum’s indoor and outdoor galleries, featuring a mix of permanent and rotating exhibits that celebrate Michigan’s rich maritime history. Step aboard the Full Steam Ahead exhibit and…

  • Free First Sundays

    The Michigan Maritime Museum is open the first Sundays of every month from November through April from 10am-5pm with FREE admission for all visitors! Guests can explore the Museum’s indoor and outdoor galleries, featuring a mix of permanent and rotating exhibits that celebrate Michigan’s rich maritime history. Step aboard the Full Steam Ahead exhibit and…

  • Free First Sundays

    The Michigan Maritime Museum is open the first Sundays of every month from November through April from 10am-5pm with FREE admission for all visitors! Guests can explore the Museum’s indoor and outdoor galleries, featuring a mix of permanent and rotating exhibits that celebrate Michigan’s rich maritime history. Step aboard the Full Steam Ahead exhibit and…