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The Maritime Research Center is the premier resource for San Francisco and Pacific Coast maritime history. Originating in 1939, the collections have become the largest maritime collection on the west coast and the largest museum and research collection in the National Park Service. The collections include more than:
The District's San Francisco Maritime Museum building was built as a bathhouse in 1936 by the WPA; in streamline moderne style, its interior is decorated with fantastic, colorful murals. The Steamship Room illustrates the evolution of maritime technology from wind to steam, and there are displays of lithographic stones, scrimshaw, and whaling ...
In 1978 the Maritime Museum was transferred to the National Park Service and now forms the core of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. [2] In 2016, the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association acquired the Allen Knight collection. [3] The collection encompassed artifacts from fifty-seven sunken or disassembled vessels ...
The Tiburon Railroad & Ferry Depot Museum is located at 1920 Paradise Drive, on the waterfront of Tiburon, California. It is located in the former San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Station House/Depot, a Greek Revival building erected in 1886 by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad. Designed to be movable, the building has ...
USS Pampanito (SS-383/AGSS-383), a Balao-class submarine, is a United States Navy ship, the third named for the pompano fish. She completed six war patrols from 1944 to 1945 and served as a United States Naval Reserve training ship from 1960 to 1971.
San Diego: San Diego Maritime Museum: Y California: San Francisco: San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park: Y California: San Francisco: San Francisco Maritime National Park Association, USS Pampanito: Y California: San Francisco: National Liberty Ship Memorial: California: San Pedro: Los Angeles Maritime Museum: California: Santa Barbara
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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