MS Maritime Museum - Mississippi's Shipbuilding and Maritime Heritage ~ Past, Present and Future

Exhibits Opening Soon!

Popular Gulf Coast musician Don Smith tests out our acoustics for future Sea Shanty performance in our new rotunda!

Do you possess a maritime item or trinket sitting in an obscure place like your attic or garage? Our exhibit displays need some local POP!

We would love your donation or loan to showcase our community’s passion for maritime history! Our Mississippi Shipbuilding and Maritime Center (formerly Mississippi Maritime Museum) is preparing many Jackson County, MS maritime shipbuilding and historical displays. Our first phase of exhibits grand opening is just around the corner! Please consider donating or loaning us your special possession.

Two Mississippi barrier islands now designated Underground Railroad sites

Maritime Center Activity

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) enjoy their October monthly meeting at our Activity Center

Activity Center's new Rotunda — Activity Center’s new Rotunda

USCG Icebreaker Cutter Crew enjoy a cookout while volunteering to help us get ready for our exhibit display grand opening.

Check out our latest wooden boat acquisitions!

The boats will be on display when our exhibits open later this year!!!

Original 'Francis O'Brien' Wooden Motor Boat — Original ‘Francis O’Brien’ Wooden Motor Boat
Pictured are Buddy O’Brien,his wife Bealinda and Al & Mary Brasher (daughter of Francis O’Brien, Buddy’s sister).

Buddy O’Brien, son of local favorite wooden shipbuilder Francis O’Brien, donated this 15 foot wooden boat original! This is the last wooden boat his father built. 1993 launching. Buddy is so passionate about our mission to preserve and promote Mississippi’s Shipbuilding heritage, he drove this boat all the way in from Texas!

Thanks to Jerold Vaughn Goff of Wade, MS our community will enjoy learning what it takes to build a dugout canoe. This dugout canoe, built in 1884 is a 19 foot Cypress tree hewed out by ancestor Edmond Goff for use in and around the now infamous Pascagoula river country.

Our Maritime Activity Center hosts
Summer Camp Programming 2022

HAPPY NATIONAL MARITIME DAY!

**Thanks to WLOX News for the great coverage of National Maritime Day!**

**Thanks to Patti Brooks for these great photos of the 2nd annual National Maritime Day on Saturday, May 21, 2022**

Kick-OFF-Our museum celebrates two National Safe Boating week
proclamations with the City of Pascagoula and the City of Moss Point

Moss Point Mayor Knight, Patti Brook, US Coast Guard

Pascagoula Mayor Willis and US Coast Guard

Read the Proclamation

National Safe Boating Week Information from National Weather Service

Seafaring Heritage Exhibits will be opening later this year!

Our Renovated CATBOAT Makes her debut!!!…

Luke Green, BM1 USCG and Ron Basczkowski — Volunteer, lead the renovation! Sherwin-Williams donated the paint supplies =$1000!

Antique wooden catboat restored and added to the Mississippi Maritime Museum

Trent Lott Middle School student wins Mississippi Maritime Museum’s ‘Name a Catboat’

WLOX — News Now! Catboat helps bring life to local maritime museum

More coverage from WLOX News

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) — On Saturday, officials gave boating safety courses at the Mississippi Maritime Museum and Activity Center. As the state eases its way into the summer, more…