Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum
- Address
- Biloxi, Mississippi
- Phone
- (228) 435-6320
- Website
- maritimemuseum.org
About Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum
The Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum (MSIM) was established in 1986 to preserve and interpret the maritime history and heritage of Biloxi and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It accomplishes this mission through an array of exhibits on shrimping, oystering, recreational fishing, wetlands, managing marine resources, charter boats, marine blacksmithing, wooden boat building, net-making, catboats/Biloxi skiff, shrimp peeling machine and numerous historic photographs and objects. The Wade Guice Hurricane Museum within the museum, featuring 1,400 square feet (130 m2) of exhibit space and a state of the art theatre. The Museum has brought life to local maritime history and heritage by replicating two 65-ft two-masted Biloxi Schooners.
In August 2005, the Museum was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Nine years later, a newly constructed museum opened to the public.
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- Founded
- 1986
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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 1.8 miles of Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum; the closest, Mississippi Maritime & Warship Museum, is practically next door.
