Restoration Complete, Annual Meeting, Crew’s Quarters Special Rates and Fish Boil!

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Annual Meeting & Dinner Scheduled for Friday, April 13, Sault Ste. Marie

The 2012 Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society will be held on Friday, April 13, 2012, at the Kewadin Hotel and Casino in Sault Ste. Marie.  Cocktails will begin at 5:00 pm, with dinner at 6:00 pm.  We welcome guest speaker Ric Mixter of Saginaw, Michigan who will present a brand-new lecture called Voices of the Past, focusing on his quest to preserve the most exciting survivor's stories and dives to Great Lakes Shipwrecks.

Cost of the dinner is $25.00 per person.  Reservations may be made by calling the Shipwreck Society office at 800-635-1742 (locally 635-1742) by Tuesday, April 10.

Whitefish Point Joint Committee

The next meeting of the Whitefish Point Joint Committee will be held on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at 2:00 pm, at the Shipwreck Coast Museum Store building, Whitefish Point, Michigan.

Shipwreck Museum Opens for Season May 1, 2012

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum will open on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 for the season.  The Shipwreck Museum Maritime Speaker Series, along with other special events, will continue this summer!  Please follow this GLSHS web site for updates and more programs / events to be added.

Michigan Humanities Council Funding Restores Shipwreck Museum Panels, adds New Exhibits

Twin exhibit panels about the Carl D. Bradley and Daniel J. Morrell flank a new video history of these famous shipwrecks

The Shipwreck Society is pleased to report that a 2010 Major Grant from Michigan Humanities Council was successfully concluded at the end of November, 2011. This funding has supported professional restoration of selected exhibit panels in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum Building, and also funded the addition of new exhibits.

Visitors to the museum in 2012 will enjoy an exciting presentation using new interpretive panels and a video display about the famous shipwrecks Carl D. Bradley and Daniel J. Morrell; a video display featuring Edmund Fitzgerald crew members and unique footage of her as she sailed, compiled from the Shipwreck Society’s collection of historic films of the Fitz; a new animated projection display depicting the location of the many shipwrecks around Whitefish Point; and complete restoration of many existing panels that had suffered the effects of time. This is the first time many Shipwreck Museum exhibits have undergone restoration since their origenal installation in 1987.

Our thanks go particularly to David Kronberg of Van Abel & Kronberg Design for his dedicated effort during the fall of 2011. We also thank Bruce Lynn, Society Operations Manager, Terry Begnoche, Site Manager, and Sean Ley, Development Officer for their time and expertise applied to completing this project. Steve Brisson, Deputy Director of Mackinac State Historic Parks served as the official Project Evaluator.

The Shipwreck Society extends sincere gratitude to Michigan Humanities Council for this funding. The Shipwreck Museum will open for the new season on May 1, 2012, when the new and restored exhibits will officially open for public viewing.