Events
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Book of the Year Awards Dinner
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesJoin 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…
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MMM Lecture Series: USCGC MACKINAW – A Tale of Two Ships
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesJoin 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…
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MMM Lecture Series: Prohibition in Michigan – How the Waterways Shaped History
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesDiscover 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…
