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Erie Maritime Museum

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Established
  
May 21, 1998

Website
  
Maritime Museum

Founded
  
21 May 1998

Phone
  
+1 814-452-2744

Erie Maritime Museum

Location
  
150 East Front StreetErie, Pennsylvania

Address
  
150 E Front St #100, Erie, PA 16507, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 12–5PMSunday12–5PMMonday9AM–5PMTuesday9AM–5PMWednesday9AM–5PMThursday9AM–5PMFriday9AM–5PMSaturday9AM–5PM

Public transit access
  
Similar
  
USS Niagara, Bicentennial Tower, Tom Ridge Environmental Center, Bayfront Convention Center, Presque Isle State Park

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Erie Maritime Museum is a maritime museum located on Presque Isle Bay in downtown Erie, Pennsylvania. It was the first new Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission ( PHMC) museum in twenty years when it opened its doors on May 21, 1998. It is the homeport of the US Brig Niagara, a modern recreation of the US Brig Niagara that fought in the Battle of Lake Erie.

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Exhibits

The museum offers a wide range of multimedia and interactive exhibits coupled with lively interpretive programs that vividly illustrate the region's rich maritime heritage. When in homeport, the ship herself is the major "exhibit". Berthed within yards of the museum, Niagara is visible from the building's bay side picture window. Inside, the centerpiece exhibits of the museum are a former steam-powered electricity generating station and a reconstruction of the mid-ship section of the USS Lawrence. The replicated Lawrence, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's first flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie, comes complete with mast, spars and rigging to foster hands-on learning in the ways of sail handling.

Another powerful display is the adjoining section of the Lawrence replica that has been blasted with live ammunition from the current Niagara's own carronades at the National Guard training facility in Fort Indiantown Gap, near Harrisburg. This unprecedented "live fire" exhibit of the Lawrence recreates the horrific carnage inflicted upon both ships and men during the Battle of Lake Erie and throughout the Age of Fighting Sail. Other exhibits tell the stories of the USS Wolverine (previously the USS Michigan), the nation's first iron-hulled warship, the environmental transformation of the Great Lakes ecosystem and much more.

Julian Oliver Davidson's epic Painting of the Battle of Lake Erie is a masterpiece that is on display.

Location

The museum, which adjoins the Raymond Blasco Erie County Library, is located at 150 East Front St.

References

Erie Maritime Museum Wikipedia


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