Key West Shipwreck Museum Blog
Super Bowl Sunday and Free Admission
January 31st, 2013 by Piper Smith
Before the Super Bowl gets underway, why spend the afternoon enjoying the Key West Shipwreck Treasures Museum for free?
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Your Taste of Treasure!
December 31st, 2012 by Piper Smith
No, we don’t mean go lick some gold pieces of eight.
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Glimpsing Nineteenth Century Life
December 12th, 2012 by Piper Smith
“M-U-S-E-U-M.” The word has kind of a boring ring to it, doesn’t it?
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The False Lights
December 6th, 2012 by Piper Smith
Did you know there are legends that some ships were intentionally lured into danger by the use of false lights at disorienting coordinates? Wreckers would sometimes hang lanterns from the ...
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Key West Lighthouse Museum
November 30th, 2012 by Mitch
Did you know that the tower of the lighthouse was originally 46 feet high and powered by 15 oil lamps with 15-inch reflectors?
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Shares of the Wreckers
November 26th, 2012 by Piper Smith
With all the salvaged cargo taken from shipwrecks, where did it all go?
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Reducing Wrecks
November 14th, 2012 by Piper Smith
The US government funded the construction of lighthouses to reduce the number of shipwrecks along the Floridian Reef. In the 1820s, lighthouses were erected at Cape Florida, Key West, Sand ...
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Spanish Operations
November 9th, 2012 by Piper Smith
As you probably know, the Spanish were really into treasure. Who wouldn’t be? In 1622, six Spanish ships of the Spanish Treasure Fleet wrecked due to a hurricane in the ...
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Why the Reefs Are Treacherous
November 1st, 2012 by Piper Smith
The chain of coral reefs stretching from Key West to the Dry Tortugas is about 200 miles long, which is separated from the Keys by a shallow, narrow channel called ...
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Mallory Square Key West Attractions
October 29th, 2012 by Mitch
Did you know that when the Key West Aquarium first opened in 1935, admission was 15 cents for adults and 5 cents for children? The Key West Aquarium was the ...
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