Wisconsin Maritime Museum
The Wisconsin Maritime Museum is a maritime museum founded in 1968 as the Manitowoc Maritime Museum to ensure that the maritime heritage of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, U.S., and the Great Lakes would not be forgotten. It opened its doors to the public in 1969 in the former YMCA southeast of the Manitowoc river bridge, in 1991, it relocated into a new 16,000square foot concrete building downstream south of Maritime Drive (Commercial). This museum has become home to one of the nation's most extensive collections of Great Lakes maritime history, original artifacts and nautical archaeology.
The Museum was founded by former submariners and civic leaders who wanted to bring a World War II submarine to Manitowoc to commemorate the role the city played in building submarines and supporting the war effort.
In 1970, the United States Navy donated the USS Cobia to the museum, which is the same type of submarine constructed in Manitowoc during the war. Also joining the new museum Cobia, was moved north east permanently berthed in the Manitowoc River adjacent to the museum, hosts thousands of visitors each year.
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