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28 paź 2024 · The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum has become one of Michigan’s most popular destinations in the cultural tourism industry, attracting nearly 100,000 visitors each season. Museum patrons learn about the perils of maritime transport on the Great Lakes at the Whitefish Point Light Station, an historic site on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum has become one of...
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The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains the most...
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A 14 minute long Edmund Fitzgerald video documentary, which...
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10 lis 2024 · The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains the most mysterious and controversial of all shipwreck tales heard around the Great Lakes. Her story is surpassed in books, film and media only by that of the Titanic.
The museum exhibits artifacts from shipwrecks from the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve and the bell from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. [3] [4] Admission to the museum includes a tour of historic buildings with displays that interpret the Great Lakes maritime, United States Coast Guard, and US Life-Saving Service history.
A 14 minute long Edmund Fitzgerald video documentary, which is viewed in the restored 1923 USCG Motor Lifeboat House. And…Summer 2024, a new exhibit will open in the 1920 restored U.S. Navy Radio Building.
The 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m 2) museum features exhibits such as one of the largest collections of model ships in the world, and the bow anchor of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down in a storm in 1975.
The bell of the famous steamer Edmund Fitzgerald is also on display and serves as a memorial to her crew in the Shipwreck Museum Gallery. The museum is open every day, May 1 to October 31, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Kotwica statku wydobyta z dna rzeki Detroit obecnie można ją obejrzeć w Dossin Great Lakes Museum. Dzień po katastrofie lokalny kościół w Detroit upamiętnił ofiary katastrofy przez 29 krotne zabicie dzwonu, co miało symbolizować 29 członków załogi statku.
