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Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

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Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is a young museum, opened July 29, 2000, located at the Harbor's Santa Barbara Waterfront Center. The building, formerly known as the Naval Reserve Center, was built by the Works Project Administration in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It was used as a U. S. Navy training facility between 1942 and 1995.

In addition to the model boats and artifacts that are typical to maritime museums, this museum has several fine exhibits on the Channel Islands just a few miles offshore. The museum also has exhibits to the offshore oil production also found in the Santa Barbara Channel. Upstairs is a theater that on the day we visited, was showing a surfacing film. Since this is a new museum, more exhibits are planned for the near future.

Museum Hours:
Summer Hours - Memorial Day to Labor Day: 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Labor Day to Memorial Day: 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Address:
113 Harbor Way, Suite 190
Santa Barbara, CA 93109
805-962-8404
www.sbmm.org

Directions:
Take the 101 to Garden Ave. Turn towards the ocean and follow it a few blocks until it ends on Cabrillo Blvd. Turn right and go past State Street and past Castillo. Take the first left after Castillo into the parking lot. Follow the boardwalk towards the pier. The Maritime Museum is on the right.

Photography was not allowed inside the museum, so I was limited to the exterior.

Photo Date: 9-26-04.

Photo Date: 9-26-04.

Views of the Harbor from the Maritime Museum...

Santa Barbara Harbor. Photo date: 9-26-04.

Santa Barbara Harbor. Stearns Wharf in the distance. Photo date: 9-26-04.

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Places, Earth Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

This page last updated: Wednesday, 31-Oct-2007 16:16:01 EDT

Places, Earth
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum