Create a new holiday tradition for your family and friends by visiting the Door County Maritime Museum during the Merry-Time Festival of Trees. Uniquely decorated trees and wreaths donated by businesses and individuals in the community can be found throughout the museum’s galleries. The festival begins on November 10, includes several special events during the […]
Maritime Speaker Series Returns to Door County Maritime Museum
The Maritime Speaker Series returns to the Door County Maritime Museum for the 2018-2019 season. This year boasts an impressive lineup of speakers to educate and entertain maritime enthusiasts. The monthly series kicks off on Thursday, November 1st at 7pm with Todd Gordon speaking about the SS Eastland disaste On July 24, 1915, thousands of employees from […]
Fall Lighthouse Festival Tickets Now On Sale
Tickets are now on sale for the 4th Annual Door County Fall Lighthouse Festival. This annual festival takes place October 6-7, 2018 and is comprised of land and boat tours featuring some of Door County’s most iconic lighthouses. Visitors will get a rare opportunity to explore some of these maritime treasures and enjoy seeing them […]
New Shipwrecks Exhibit Coming May 26
The Door County Maritime Museum is sailing into summer with the unveiling of its “Shipwrecks of Door County” interactive exhibit. With help from a $39,550 Joint Effort Marketing (JEM) grant from the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, the museum is welcoming visitors to explore the role shipwrecks play in Wisconsin’s maritime history. The “Shipwrecks of Door […]
Maritime Speaker Series: Wisconsin Lighthouses
The March 1, 2018 from 7-8pm, Door County Maritime Museum Maritime Speakers will be Barb and Ken Wardius, life-long residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They have traveled statewide and nationally and pursued their hobbies of photography, reading, hiking, bird study, history and in recent years, lighthouses, which first drew their interest in picturesque Door County. They […]
Lee Radtke Exhibit and Reception for New Paintings of Ships in Sturgeon Bay Harbor
Award-winning artist Lee Radtke will have an exhibit featuring his maritime-focused oil paintings at the Door County Maritime Museum from March 9 through May 31. Paintings featured will include the winter fleet at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, as well as tugboats in Sturgeon Bay. The exhibit will kick off with an artist’s reception at the museum […]
Free Kids Days in February at DCMM
Every Sunday in February, the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay will be offering free admission to children 12 and under with an accompanying paid adult. The Door County Maritime Museum hopes to encourage more children to take interest in the importance of our local maritime history. “In order to understand what history is […]
The Door County Maritime Museum-Gills Rock Gets a Name Change
The Door County Maritime Museum-Gills Rock will be renamed the Death’s Door Maritime Museum in 2018. The name change will be celebrated with a renaming ceremony on July 4, 2018. “We wanted to peak additional interest and create extraordinary excitement by changing the name to something rich in maritime lore,” says the museum’s Executive Director, […]
The 2018 Winter Fleet
The Winter Fleet has started making their way in to Bay Shipbuilding. Watch the giants of the Great Lakes head in for winter layup at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding. Ships from 500 feet to over 1000 feet make their way through the Sturgeon Bay Canal. Door County Maritime Museum’s website is updated anytime they receive a new […]
Maritime Lighthouse Tower Project Brings in $2.5 Million for Expansion
The Door County Maritime Museum’s Lighthouse Tower expansion project has successfully finished the first stage of fundraising for this inspiring multi-million-dollar initiative, bringing in more than $2.5 million in gifts and pledges. Expanding the museum means bringing more of the maritime story of Door County, Wisconsin, and Great Lakes alive. The overall project goal is […]
