Group Tours
If you have a group, we can create a tour! Cruise ships, tour buses, service clubs, school groups, boat and yacht clubs ...
Located at 75 Mechanic Street, on the historic site of the former I.L. Snow Company shipyard, the museum provides ample tour bus parking, rest rooms, waterfront views—just minutes from downtown Rockland, Maine
Other nearby and convenient attractions allow you to create an engaging day-long stop in the midcoast
- Maine Lighthouse Museum
- Owls Head Transportation Museum
- Farnsworth Art Museum
- Restaurants and shops downtown in our active Main Street Maine community
With a 5-star rating on Trip Advisor, we’re proud of our mission to celebrate, honor, experience, and share the story of Maine's maritime heritage. The museum houses a historic collection of marine related tools, boats, and navigational equipment in rooms dedicated to:
· Ships' tools
· Rockland’s historic lime and granite industries
· Shipbuilding and shipwrecks
· The history of marine navigation
· Steam engines
· Working ship models
· The historic polar research vessel, The Bowdoin
· A working boat house
· A collection of unique boats including the oldest floating Friendship Sloop and a working steam powered riverboat replica
Located at 75 Mechanic Street, on the historic site of the former I.L. Snow Company shipyard, the museum provides ample tour bus parking, rest rooms, waterfront views—just minutes from downtown Rockland, Maine
Other nearby and convenient attractions allow you to create an engaging day-long stop in the midcoast
- Maine Lighthouse Museum
- Owls Head Transportation Museum
- Farnsworth Art Museum
- Restaurants and shops downtown in our active Main Street Maine community
With a 5-star rating on Trip Advisor, we’re proud of our mission to celebrate, honor, experience, and share the story of Maine's maritime heritage. The museum houses a historic collection of marine related tools, boats, and navigational equipment in rooms dedicated to:
· Ships' tools
· Rockland’s historic lime and granite industries
· Shipbuilding and shipwrecks
· The history of marine navigation
· Steam engines
· Working ship models
· The historic polar research vessel, The Bowdoin
· A working boat house
· A collection of unique boats including the oldest floating Friendship Sloop and a working steam powered riverboat replica
Special Tours Available (call for pricing and size limits)
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In the Lime Light!
You’ve heard the term, but did you know that Rockland was once the Lime Capital with 136 lime kilns lining her shores? Learn how the lime industry helped shape the schooner building industry along the coast of Maine and watch us fire-up our working scale model lime kiln! (we've even cooked up hot dogs and pizzas in the kiln for special events!) |
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Heritage Tours
Can be booked to include a group tour of the museum that can focus or highlight specific aspects of the Midcoast's heritage and culture. Then we'll move to our tent on the shores of Rockland Harbor to talk about the history of lobstering along the coast of Maine while we cook up a traditional lobster bake for your guests. Music can be provided for a backdrop of tradition folk and maritime music. (minimum group sizes apply) |
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Steaming Along the Coast
Highlights our fabulous steam engine collection. Captain Jim Sharp will gladly fire up one or two of our old “one-lungers” for your group, and give you a bit of history of how the steam engine transformed the ship building industry of Maine. |
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Looking for something different?
If your group has a special interest that you'd like to design a tour around, give us a call! We're always happy to highlight our collection. Maybe you'd like to hear about:
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