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Westport Maritime Museum, Westport, WA

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Westport Maritime Museum

Maritime history museum in a former Coast Guard station in Westport's Marina District, with whale skeletons and a large historic lighthouse lens.

2201 Westhaven Dr, Westport WA 98595 · Westport, WA

About Westport Maritime Museum

Spread across five buildings that once formed a Coast Guard station, this museum tells the maritime story of the South Beach area. Displays cover local lighthouse history, shipwrecks, rescue work, and the whaling and fishing trades, along with cranberry harvesting and logging tools. Natural history galleries explain beach erosion, ocean currents, beachcombing, and marine mammals, and outdoor displays show sea mammal skeletons. The Destruction Island Lens hall houses a big historic lighthouse optic, and McCausland Hall is rented out for meetings and events.

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