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The Virginia Beach Surf & Rescue Museum honors and preserves the history of Virginia's maritime heritage, coastal communities, the United States Lifesaving Service, and the United States Coast Guard along the Atlantic coast.
This 1903 Life-Saving Station turned museum tells the history of Virginia's coastal communities and its maritime heritage. The white clapboard structure looks like a comfortable house, except for the four-story tower where the crew used to watch for foundering ships.
The Virginia Beach Surf & Rescue Museum is a significant institution that honors and preserves the rich maritime heritage of Virginia, its coastal communities, and the history of the United States Lifesaving Service and the United States Coast Guard along the Atlantic coast.
It is a tribute and memory to Virginia’s coastal communities and the shipwrecks of bygone eras. The Old Coast Guard station holds 1800 artifacts and over 1000 photos of the United States Life Saving and Coast Guard Services, along with a library filled with books, papers, and oral histories.
The Virginia Beach Surf & Rescue Museum honors and preserves the history of Virginia’s coastal communities and maritime heritage. The scope of the Museum’s exhibits begins with the Virginia Beach Community and extends to subjects related to Virginia’s oceanfront, coastal and water related heritage.
This is a virtual tour of the Old Coast Guard Station in Virginia Beach, a museum devoted to Virginia's maritime history, the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the U.S. Coast Guard. This museum, located at 24th Street adjacent to the boardwalk, is one of five life-saving stations established in Virginia Beach in the nineteenth century.
The Old Coast Guard Station preserves the history of Virginia's coastal communities and maritime heritage. It houses a collection of 1,800 artefacts and over 1,000 photographic images of the United States Life-Saving and Coast Guard Services and the resort community of Virginia Beach.
