Wisconsin Maritime Museum
- November 20, 2003
- Rated 4 of 5 by
veetown from Cedar Rapids, Iowa
This is Wisconsin's largest maritime museum. It has a gallery dedicated to Wisconsin-built recreational boats, hands-on activities in the Children's Waterway Room and Little Lakefarer's Room, and a working triple-expansion marine steam engine. They also offer guided tours of an authentic WWII submarine, USS Cobia.
From journal "New England in the Midwest"
Wisconsin Maritime Museum
- October 21, 2002
- Rated 3 of 5 by
TracyJ from Montrose, Minnesota
The museum is undergoing remodeling, but it was not a distraction. My four year olds had fun talking to each other on the submarine phone and pushing the button to make the dive alarm go off. A ship's "wheel" was fun for them to use while pretending to sail their own ship as pirates. I enjoyed learning about the evolution of the submarine and how the Manitowoc Shipyards built many kinds of boats. The submarine tour is almost 45 minutes long, so the children got a little antsy, but it was very interesting and I know living on a submarine couldn't have been easy. Because my children couldn't read, they didn't get the educational value that a middle schooler would, but they had fun looking at the large engines and the small models of many different types of ships. There is a family rate that will be cheaper than mentioned above if you have two adults and at least two paying children. Their website is wimaritimemuseum.org.
From journal An Autumn weekend in Wisconsin