Hours & Exhibitions

 

 

Hours: Closed Monday through Friday

 

The Dossin Great Lakes Museum, a flagship of the Midwest’s inland lakes maritime heritage museums, stands on the shore of Detroit’s historic Belle Isle, one of America’s grandest city parks.

You, your family and your friends will take in a panoramic view of the Detroit River and experience many rare artifacts, including the reconstructed pilot house of the Great Lakes freighter S.S. William Clay Ford, the Miss Pepsi championship hydroplane, and one of the largest known collection of scale model ships in the world.

For information on how you can visit  and what's going on at the museum, check the Dossin website . You can also call the Dossin Museum during normal business hours at 313.833.5538.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resources

All Ages:

The Detroit Almanac: 300 Years of Life in the Motor City, Detroit Free Press, 2000.

Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors, Ivan H. Walton and Joe Grimm, Wayne State University Press, 2002.

Eight Steamboats: Sailing through the Sixties, Patrick Livingston, Wayne State University Press, 2004.

For Kids:

Mail by the Pail, Colin Bergel, Wayne State University Press, 2000.

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