Fascinating museum full of historical artifacts and information about Maines maritime history and shipbuilding industry. The boat tour is well worth doing if you have time. The guide was very knowledgeable about the area and history and the scenery is amazing.

The museum was nice but dont miss out on the boat tour! It was surprisingly interesting! Highlights include getting some interesting history on the local lighthouses, seeing a seal, bald eagle and osprey nest and passing the shipyards where a stealth destroyer, Zumwalt-class, is being built.

Lots of really cool history. Cheapest boat tour by far. If youre going on the boat tour skip the guided tour at the museum (they go over all the same stories on the boat)

This museum is one of the best maritime museums around, and a great draw for the pretty coastal town of Bath. There is lots to see, my favorite being the woodworking shop where volunteers repair boats and help young students build their own skiffs. We attended an outdoor concert hosted by the Chocolate Church with a fine performance by a Johnny Cash impersonator. A most pleasant evening, masks and all.

We had such a lovely visit to the Maine Maritime Museum! It was fascinating to see the buildings of the old shipyard, and the attention to detail in the exhibits and recreated areas was appreciated. What most stood out though was the enthusiastic and knowledgable staff and volunteers, who all clearly loved working at the museum. Definitely worth a stop!

We took a quick walk through and learned a lot about Sailing in the old days. We also got on a boat to do a water tour.

I visited for my friends’ wedding and was so impressed by the facility and staff. Their event coordinator was so kind and helpful both to their families and guests. She was available during setup, helped make their wedding ceremony and reception run smoothly, and even helped coordinate breaking down all of the decorations and tables. If I lived in the area I would definitely choose this venue for any bigger event!!

Fantastic place to visit! The Maine Maritime Museum is a sprawling property with several building, each with their own fascinating story. Bring the whole family for an educational visit and learn all about the many steps involved in ship-making.Cost is $17.50 per adult, but its well worth it, and youll spend at least two hours exploring without seeing everything.

Superb galleries, interactive displays, highly informative, excellent cruises with very knowledgeable and informative staff. The gift shop has plenty for the boat builder, designer, sailor, and the nautically-inclined.

My family enjoyed our visit. The museum itself was well designed and informational. We enjoyed the brief overview of how the ships were built. Our boat ride was the highlight of the trip. The scenery was beautiful. We even saw a bald eagle!

The museum is nicely done. They have several restored original buildings with interesting displays. The museum also has nicely done displays of shipwrecks, lighthouse light, model ships, etc. You can also take a trolley ride around parts of town and the shipyards. There is also boat ride to see some lighthouses and the shipyards.

Free Admission during January. Locals and visitors from away can see the core exhibits at no cost. Once youve done that, youll want to plan a visit during warmer weather so that you can explore the outside exhibits and take a boat cruise. This past fall, I took the lighthouse cruise and I highly recommend it.This is a family friendly museum that is easily handicapped accessible. I included some lighthouse tour pictures from the fall.

Such a lovely place... from the moment we arrive and saw the big masts representing the ship that was built there we were mesmerized, but, big place with a lot of exhibits and learning experiences, you can stroll the outside areas enjoying all the shops and work areas only imagining how overwhelming it was I its heyday with all the shops busy at the same time..The indoor parts has so much to offer with the history of the place, all the ships that they built, the new grounds and how the towns economy was based there... very helpful staff and plenty of parking ... dont miss the Iron Works film showing the building process of the modern era destroyers with all the technology...Walk outside and get amazed by the size of the place and what they did in their time...Due to the season, we couldnt take a boat rideEnjoy

Interesting exhibits. Nice facility. Wish we could have stayed longer. Would like to have used the picnic tables on this beautiful September afternoon.

Beautiful displays and very educational.The river cruise was great! Pleasant , knowledgeable staff. Well planned to keep Covid safe.

Very nice, well done small museum worth a visit if you are visiting South Maine coast.

Well done exhibits. Fantastic experience. The sculpture representative of the Wyoming is breathtaking.

Was an awesome time! Went on the 1 hour boat tour, very informative & fun, and toured the buildings on the museum grounds. Would recommend highly.

If youre in Maine, and w/in a 2 hour driving distance of Bath, please, please, please.....visit this amazing museum. This is a great travel destination for the entire family, and a museum ticket is good for 2 days. This museum not only offers history and present for all things nautical, they also offer incredible day cruises, (additional fees), narrated tours and much more. The gift shop is well run and well stocked. Maine has an incredibly in-depth nautical history, and this museum ensures all have the opportunity to view and enjoy it.

Visited the Maine Maritime Museum during a recent roadtrip. A great place to visit if youre interested in this type of history. A Guide spent about 30 minutes giving historical details. He had a wealth of knowledge in the subject and we were given the opportunity to ask questions. A lot of area to walk around with boards containing detailed information about what you were seeing. Very peaceful place and interesting. Would definitely visit again. Museum has a gift shop and theres plenty of space for parking.

My husband and I took the shipyards and lighthouses cruise which was absolutely beautiful and very informative! We learned so much and saw some amazing views. Having admission to the actual museum in addition to the cruise was awesome. We loved getting to explore everything there. There is SO MUCH to see and learn about, so take your time and make sure you have a few solid hours to see everything. We had a lot of fun here and highly recommend visiting!!

Extremely disappointing. No information on dog policy on their website. We arrived at their wide open outdoor setting and were told no dogs allowed. A waste of a drive. We took our visitor dollars to a more sensible, and welcoming place.

Museum stellar: interactive, incredible maritime artwork. BIW tour Exceptional...truly passionate & knowledgeable docents! Cant wait to see new gardens w/ native plantings. The grounds w/ outbuildings dedicated to the shipbuilding past of ...are not to be missed. Everyone helpful & pleasant. Gift shop great variety and NOT $$$$. A MUST...bring the whole family.

Fantastic museum of the history of Maines marine vessels. I have come to this museum since I was a boy, and I am pleased to say the quality has not lessened in the slightest. The Wyoming sculpture gives you a true sense of the massive size of these vessels. Classic displays like the boat launch demo are still going strong. I cannot recommend a museum experience more highly than that provided at Maine Maritime Museum.

Nice museum, staff is knowledgeable and friendly

This place is incredible! They have so much historic stuff, plus very knowledgeable volunteers. on top of that it is very affordable and they give you a 2nd day to return for free! good boat tours with lighthouses and ships, play ship for kids, bookstore, and much more. I would highly recommend stopping here anytime you are near bath! very easy to find, and they have truck/RV parking just past the main parking area.

We did the By Land & Sea: The Bath Iron Works Story tour and cruise. Then toured the rest of the museum. American history and current affairs at its finest. Beautiful modern museum along with original historical structures.

Excellent museum! Definitely one of the best maritime museums we have been to.Interactive displays, indoor and outdoor displays and activities. The fee gets you a single return trip during the same week, so if need or want to, you can come back. Gift shop has a wide variety of amusements for all ages. Would definitely go again!

Very interesting displays

Beautiful historical exhibits of a work force from long ago.

What a gem! This is an excellent museum, and we only saw the indoors exhibits because we visited in winter. Lots of excellent exhibits, and fun things for kids to do as well. We will definitely visit in the summer to take in the rest of the campus as well. A great family museum!

As a part of a long weekend travel experience in Maine for a group of people that I led, one stop during our time in Maine was at the Maine Maritime Museum. I highly recommend the museum to anyone who has an interest in Maines nautical history, ships, sailboats, and how the maritime industry operated in the 18th and 19th centuries. The tours and tour guides were excellent with an abundance of information about the nautical past in Maine. The exhibits were highly educational and I noticed the museum ran different types of programs throughout the year. In addition, you can go on a 3-4 hour lighthouse or coastal cruise, which is well worth the effort. I love this museum and cannot wait to return!

Very nice museum, lots of great information and exhibits to see. Especially loved coming aboard the schooner Mary E and the ship launching demonstration. Our 3 year old spent a good amount of time playing on the play ship. We spent about two hours here; I imagine that is probably pretty typical for most visitors.

Worth the visit! They also have a room with all the tools and info about lobsters. Nice outdoor park.

Really interesting place. The 1 hour river cruise is worthwhile, especially if you want to see a Zumwalt class destroyer up close.

Interactive, spacious and new. Great history pieces, although a little depressing given that it covers dead industry...

Very well laid out, great details. Vet the map as not all of the out buildings are are labeled on each entrance.

Very interesting. Well worth the admission. Improving daily.

Beautiful place to park .And senic view

If you like boats, visit here..if not.. its a way to pass the day. I really enjoyed the lobster exhibit the most.

Very cool experience!I didnt realize this was a whole grounds experience and not just one freestanding museum. The one hour boat ride was alright, definitely not worth $37 but at least we didnt have to pay again for the museum access.

Didnt get to go inside the museum. The concert on the lawn was wondering.

We were visiting from out of town and happened to catch the Maritime Museum on their annual Community Day when they offered free admission and discounted boat tours. What a delightful afternoon! The museum is very well done with interesting exhibits about various aspects of ship building, lobster catching, and light house keeping. Many areas of the museum have informative videos which offer the benefits of a guided tour without the time constraints. The boat tour gave a nice opportunity to see a couple smaller light houses as well the BIW ship harbor. Overall, Id recommend it as an excellent educational family destination.

This is a nice little stop in New England. Great gift shop, nice educational museum. We stopped in 20 years ago on our honeymoon and were delighted to see it still has its charm!

Fascinating history on a beautiful campus, the main maritime museum Is one of the Premier maritime museums in the country. With their latest acquisition of the Mary E, The last remaining wooden ship built on the person and smalls shipyard grounds you are sure to find something that will catch your interest. There also a supporter of the sea scout program by chartering Ship 243.

Wonderful place. Worth the time.

Wow, this is a gem of a find. We enjoyed it and could have stayed longer. We had three great tour guides. David gave us an overview of the whole facility. He did not miss a beat. He got us in and out as predicted. He was sensitive to the time. We had to make the boat tour and safely did.Ben was our guide on the tour boat. He showed us the extensive history of the Bath, ME. Area, such as the Bath Iron Works, the Kennebec River, and light houses. He was full of knowledge. Irene was our guide for the Donnell House.

AMAZING CREW. WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. My wife and I discovered this place accidentally. We entered the facility hoping to see some cool town history when we discovered the crew of artisans building a vintage wood schooner. Then the crew of docents guided us around the place and introduced us to the men and women taking on the amazing task. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Thanks folks.

This place was a Hidden Gem. I knew nothing about it previous to visiting there. I was amazed at the ship building practices and history. It was just a wonderful visit.

Loved it, great place. So much to look at.

Lots to see and do. Great price and even better volunteers.

A real gem for visitors to southern Maine. Very interesting!

So much to see and learn about the history of mainers

Absolutely fascinating and wonderful museum!

Great pieces of history. Love learning about our heritage. They had some cool things that allowed the kids to get some hands on learning. Overall great experience.

A wonderful small museum with many options, including area cruises.

Both the interior and exterior portions of the museum have many artifacts and some hands on things to do. The 1 hour boat cruise takes you to a few sites and past the Bath general dynamics company which is in the process of making 3 ships. There is a small cafe outside with a few menu items and drinks. Bring a sunhat!

The exhibits are great. We learned so many things about the boat building business and how rough the lives of the sailers were. So many things to see and do. Boat tour is a must.

Interesting artifacts related to maritime history plus activities such as boat tours in the area.

Excellent place to spend an afternoon. Loved the museum.

An incredible piece of ship building history. Pictured is a boat being built here by elementary students from the local school. I highly recommend coming here!

Great displays, informative volunteer docents, beautiful location

Very enjoyable lecture on the Maine built ships that worked in the Artic. Then detailed exhibits on a lighthouse lens, the ice trade in the Northeast, diving and the steam engine in the lobby.Admission is free this month.

The boat tour is very cool. The museum is nice. It is worth a visit.

If you like maritime history and wooden ships this is a great place to visit.

My friend and I said lets go here for a bit and then go to maine beer company, 4 hours later we said we gotta come back. If you like the days of wooden ships and iron men, if you like this was the trade locally that we did, if you like this is how they did it and they did it here and over there and up in here; then visit and leave them a few bucks to preserve history.

Its very near the Bath Iron Works shipyard and has some exceptional exhibits. Most impressive of these is a depiction, in full size, the schooner Wyoming with six masts.

Wonderful museum. Great for the entire family. Nice gift shop as well. Worth checking out

I spent four days touring the museum and taking their infomative cruises. A terrific time.

Great place so many places to explore and discover. Make sure you plan to go on a sunny day many outdoor exhibits

It is a wonderful place to learn about the ship building history in New England. The buildings and grounds are organized perfectly. You need at least 2 1/2 hours to see the bare minimum. But to really learn and see the place in depth plan on half to a full day there.

The museum provides visitors with the opportunity to learn about Maines Maritime history, especially ship building, from the start to today. Somewhere around 5,000 ships, mostly wooden sailing ships of all kinds, have been built in the Bath, Maine area. Destroyers for the US Navy are still built in Bath, Maine.Besides displays in the modern museum, Craftsmen in legacy buildings explain and demonstrate skills necessary to fabricate sailing ships, the largest of which could haul 6,000 tons of coal.Land and sea tours are also available. One sea tour takes passengers upriver past the Bath Iron Works where 3 destroyers are presently being built. Another tour goes downriver to the coast. Yet another provides the experience of being a passenger on a 1906 schooner still in service.The museum is staffed by volunteers who are knowledgeable and friendly. As a bonus, Bath is a wonderful community to spend some time in.

Great place to be very cool.

This is a great maritime museum with a interactive theme,well worth the visit,give yourself at least a few hours,this place has a large river front campus with alot to see.

Nice museum of wooden boat construction but all were out of business since 1920s

Extensive information presented in a fun and interesting way. A high order Fresnel light with a full video and surround sound simulation of all types of weather and sounds encountered. Nice handicap accessibility, very good gift shop. Historic and original buildings where large wood seafaring boats hauled amazing loads of cargo. Take boat trip to Bath Iron Works and see modern shipyard where all the U. S. destroyers are still being built.

This place has a lot of interesting historical information about maine and its shipbuilding heritage. Kids and wife liked it too

Informative with an awesome museum. Loved the skeleton of a ship build by Bath Iron Works. Took a water tour and got a great sense of the area. Loved the Lobster Bug!!

A fun well done museum with something for everyone. Well worth the visit. I recommend the boat tour which was informative and gives you a different perspective of the area. At one time Bath was an important port on the east coast.

Great history and story of Maine Maritime. Lots to see and soak up.

This is clearly the best Maritime Museum in the country. The only existing original wooden Shipyard that survived into the modern era. Exhibits in the museum are awesome and often changed. The staff and volunteers are amazing. The Kennebec River is awesome and the cruises offered by the museum memorable

Lots of things to read, some interactive exhibits. Found it humorous that the whole place revolves around the building of a huge ship that foundered because it was too large for its own good. We arrived in the afternoon and it was practically a ghost town. Few staff, no other patrons.

Beautiful location, knowledgeable staff, and tons of history of the shipbuilding industry in Maine. Who knew that the most complete existing shipyard that had built wooden ships was sitting right there in Bath, ME? There are only a couple of other standing shipyards like it in the world today.We went on the shorter boat tour, with the captain giving us interesting tidbits along the way. We also got as close to Bath Iron Works as we could. How many people can say theyve come within spitting distance from a Navy stealth destroyer? I can say that now.

Informative, lots of history. Educational and entertaining. Great for kids too.

Any maritime museum, big or small, is like a magnet to me. It speaks not only of the sea, and the men and ships that sailed on it, but of the communities on the shore - shipbuilders, marine suppliers, and many others that kept seagoing trade afloat. The Maine Maritime Museum is well worth a visit, located in the heart of the coast where the Down Easters were built, the ships that sailed the seas of the world.

This is a must, totally more than I thoughr!

This place is awesome! Absolutely love the interactive displays.

Loved it. So much to see. Ticket is good for 2 days as long it is used within 7 day period.

Great place to learn about the local maritime history and there is always something new to see

Very interesting. Wish we would of had more time. We were with a tour group and only had so much time.

Awesome exhibits in a fantastic location!!!

Great exhibits and friendly people.

Love it. And Im not a person into museums. We also took the ship ride which was excellent.

What a wonderful display of history.Worth seeing!!

Can’t wait to comeback after I earn my Cape Horn earring!

Ive struggled with the thought of reviewing this museum simply because I dont find the subject matter interesting enough, which isnt the museums fault. Every corner of this place is immersive, educational, relevant, and thorough. We were a little disappointed in the historical boat collection - for some reason, we thought there would be a little more substance and story behind the boats featured. Something else we found disappointing was the lighthouse light. You can walk right up to it but you cant go inside. You would think in a controlled environment with such an emphasis on immersion that you could be permitted to go inside the light, especially since its located just off the watchful eye of the attendants and curators, numerous in the lobby. Shrug. Since most visitors to the Maine coast will see lobster boats and the fishermen working, you might be interested to see the lobstering section of the museum. The wall of buouys is a work of art in itself. Even if you dont go downstairs, go in the stairwell and check out the random lobster ephemera. Its like they knew these things belonged here, somewhere, and didnt know where to display them, so they stuck them in a stairwell. So in this stairwell, you have clippings of Lobsterman (the superhero)comic book, lobster tail corset patterns, and all sorts of lobster miscellany. Its kind of a hoot. If you love all things maritime, you will absolutely love this place, and thats its aim, so for that reason, Ill give it 5 stars. Definitely leave the kids at home; if you arent into boating and nautical history, there is little for you here.

Wonderful experience for everyone (ages 6 to senior) but should note it was free this month. otherwise it is rather pricey.

Lots of fun for the whole family!

This place is great. It is more than just the admission building. Be sure to check out all of the other buildings.

Excellent place for history! Greatly enjoyed the experience, the staff was very polite and courteous. I highly recommend this place.