Oulu Heritage Center
The Oulu Heritage Center is located in Iron River in Wisconsin’s Bayfield County. Take a guided tour of the original Palo homestead buildings, the log home Pudas House, the former Northern Co-op store, the schoolhouse, and an authentic Finnish sauna. Learn about the towns rich Finnish immigrant history through exhibits, archives, events, pioneer skill demonstrations […]
Bayfield Maritime Museum
The Bayfield Maritime Museum is located in Bayfield in Wisconsin’s Bayfield County. This museum exhibits artifact that portray the nautical history of Bayfield and the Apostle Islands. There are a number of displays and educational panels as well as interactive exhibits and artifacts. You can even climb inside a couple of the boats on display, […]
Cook County Historical Museum
The Cook County Historical Museum is located in Grand Marais in Minnesota’s Cook County. The museum is inside the former light keepers home that was built in 1896. It is a modest museum the features changing exhibits. Learn about the local history, see exhibits about the military, music and art, maritime history and so much […]
Cross River Heritage Center
The Cross River Heritage Center is located in Schroeder in Minnesota’s Cook County. The center is within a Tudor building built in 1929 and was originally the Stickney Inn and Store. The former inn is still memorialized with a room that was restored to reflect a room in the inn during the 1930s. There is […]
The Duluth and Iron Range Depot Museum
The Duluth and Iron Range Depot Museum is located in Two Harbors in Minnesota’s Lake County. It is a two story brick building that was built in 1907 as the headquarters for the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad. Today the building houses the Depot Museum with exhibits on the historical importance of industry in Lake […]
Glensheen Historical Estate
The Glensheen Historical Estate is located in Duluth in St. Louis County. This estate is an immense 20,000 square foot, 39 room mansion on 12 acres on land that looks over Lake Superior. It was built in 1908 for the affluent Congdon family. Chester Congdon was a lawyer, capitalist and philanthropist and was a prominent […]
Historic Union Depot
The Historic Union Depot is located in Duluth in Minnesota’s St. Louis County. The Depot has eight organizations under one roof with three of them exhibiting collections of artifacts and artwork, The Lake Superior Railroad Museum, The St. Louis County Historical Society, and The Duluth Art Institute. The Lake Superior Railroad Museum features a collection […]
Marquette Maritime Museum
The Marquette Maritime Museum is located in Marquette in Michigan’s Marquette County. The museum is associated with the Marquette Harbor Lighthouse. You’ll have the opportunity to explore both the museum and lighthouse and learn about maritime history. The museum includes a display of 19th century Fresnel lenses and various artifacts and exhibits on the Edmund […]
Astor House Museum
The Astor House Museum is located in Copper Harbor in Michigan’s Keweenaw County. The museum is a part of the Minnetonka Resort. The Resort includes log cabin cottages, gift and antique shop and of course, the Astor House Historical Museum. There you will find unique artifacts and relics of the earliest settlers, copper mining, antique […]
Eagle Harbor Lighthouse Complex
The Eagle Harbor Lighthouse Complex is located at Eagle Harbor in Michigan’s Keweenaw County. The complex consists of the Keweenaw History Museum, the Commercial Fishing Museum, the Maritime Museum and of course, the Eagle Harbor Lighthouse. The Keweenaw History Museum contains displays that exhibit mining, shipping, tourism and early life of the Keweenaw through photographs […]
Eagle River Museum
The Eagle River Museum is located in Eagle River in Michigan’s Keweenaw County. The museum focuses on four major themes, the Cliff Mine, the town of Eagle River, the town and mine of Phoenix and the amusement area known as Crestview that is found between to two towns. Cliff Mine was one of the first […]
Bammert Blacksmith Shop Museum
The Bammert Blacksmith Shop Museum is located in Phoenix in Michigan’s Keweenaw County. The museum exhibits blacksmith shop equipment as they were at the end of the nineteenth century. There is an information panel that reads; “Tribute to a Dying Art – No matter where you lived in the late 1800s or early 1900s, chances […]
