Spring Break Fun!
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesWe have fun activities for families Tuesday-Saturday, April 1-5, 2025 all part of our Spring Break Fun! Tuesday will feature the Coast Guard Auxiliary and water safety activities. Wednesday will have hands-on demonstrations in our Padnos Boat Shed with our volunteers and crew as well as a Captain and Crew Meet & Greet from 11-Noon; maybe even sign a sea…
Lecture Series- Lake Huron Red Tails: Recovering a World War II Tuskegee Airplane
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesWhispers Across the Water continues with guest presenter Wayne Lusardi as he shares his experiences recovering a World War II Tuskegee airplane that crashed into Lake Huron in 1944. Since 2015, Michigan’s State Maritime Archaeologist Wayne Lusardi has been leading expeditions to archaeologically document the airplane wreck in Lake Huron. In 1944 a Bell P39…
Coast Guard Clean-Up
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesJoin us for our annual Coast Guard Clean Up! US Coast Guard and Auxiliary as well as Sea Cadets will be on our Museum campus to clean and polish our amazing historic Coast Guard vessels and clean up our Coast Guard exhibits to honor those that came before them. Come see these incredible boats and…
MMM @ Tulip Time
Boatwerks Waterfront Restaurant 216 Van Raalte Avenue, Holland, MI, United StatesThe Museum returns to Holland for Tulip Time with tall ship Friends Good Will. We will be conducting dockside tours from the dock behind Boatwerks Restaurant. Step aboard history at Tulip Time with the Michigan Maritime Museum! This event is NOT located at the Museum in South Haven. Tickets for dockside tours will not be available online the day…
Blessing of the Fleet & Fish Fry
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesJoin the Michigan Maritime Museum for a celebration of the 2025 summer season! Festivities begin with our annual Blessing of the Fleet where tall ship Friends Good Will, Museum vessels, and other South Haven harbor boats are part of a ceremony for a safe and successful season. The Blessing is followed by the fish fry celebration…
Antique & Classic Boat Show
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesThe Michigan Maritime Museum presents the 44th Antique & Classic Boat Show in South Haven. This event celebrates all kinds of antique and classic small craft from power boats to paddle boats. Woodworkers and collectors alike will show their boats, demonstrations on boat building techniques will be featured, and toy boat building will be available…
Women of the Watch
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United States“Women of the Watch, Keepers of the Light,” written and performed by Kamryn Marck and directed by D.B. Schroeder, is an uplifting 45-minutes of music, laughter, and simple honest storytelling. The play follows Kamryn as she relives family trips to lighthouses in Michigan, which ignites a passion to share the spectacular stories of various female lighthouse keepers…
23rd Annual Fish Boil Fundraiser
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesJoin the Michigan Maritime Museum for our 23rd Annual Fish Boil! This old-fashioned Great Lakes fish boil dinner includes traditionally boiled lake fish, potatoes and onions covered in a butter…
Sweetwater Film Showcase
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesThe Michigan Maritime Museum is proud to present the Sweetwater Film Showcase. This two-day event will feature short and full length documentaries about Great Lakes topics that highlight the connections, contributions, and…
STEAM Camp
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesThe Museum offers a STEAM focused summer camp for students grades 3-5 (ages 8-10). The camp runs for one week in the summer and is open to 15 students. The…
