Key West Shipwreck Museum Blog

Before the Super Bowl gets underway, why spend the afternoon enjoying the Key West Shipwreck Treasures Museum for free?

No, we don’t mean go lick some gold pieces of eight.

“M-U-S-E-U-M.” The word has kind of a boring ring to it, doesn’t it?

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 ...

Did you know that the tower of the lighthouse was originally 46 feet high and powered by 15 oil lamps with 15-inch reflectors?

With all the salvaged cargo taken from shipwrecks, where did it all go?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...