Mel Fisher Maritime Museum Admission Ticket

Overview

Mel Fisher Maritime Museum is the only fully accredited museum in the Florida Keys. That means this is more than just an exciting adventure story - it is also a nationally recognized research institution!

City: Key West

Tue 25 Feb

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Starting at $17.50

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Tue 25 Feb

Starting at $17.50

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What's Included

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200 Greene St,

• Voucher valid for 60 days after selected travel date

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Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Ticket valid for single use within 60 days of selected date
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Regular temperature checks for staff
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons

What To Expect

Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum

Relive Mel Fisher's battles with the government to retain the artifacts they found - all the way to the US Supreme Court. A true folk legend right in Key West where it all happened! See the amazing treasure in the Spanish Treasure Galleons galleries discovered by Mel Fisher and his crew, plus so much more! The thought provoking Slave Ship and Key West African Cemetery exhibits provide a stark look into the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Key West’s unique role in it. Discover the relics found aboard the Henrietta Marie, an English merchant slave ship dating back to 1699. The wreck as discovered in 1972, but was only partially excavated until years later. Hear about the story behind this important piece of history. Learn about Spanish Coins in the New World, the Real Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Science of Shipwrecks. You can even take a lab tour and see how history is revealed through conservation every day! Come celebrate 30 years of treasure with the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum!

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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TravelKatieLang

Aug 2021

This museum was incredible!!! A must see. We did the shipwreck museum across the street which was a cute Disney-feeling museum. We wanted something more and saw this- truly amazing to see the real treasure and artifacts from years of hard work. You could spend a long time in here reading about each thing. I highly recommend this for adults and teens who want the real thing! Would be a bit boring for young kids. This was our favorite museum in key west!

Dave P

Aug 2021

Booked the behind the scenes tour and was not disappointed. Ended spending over 2 hours looking at all the exhibits and seeing how some of the preservation of artifacts is done. Extremely interesting and well worth it.

dollarsgirl

Jun 2021

When I was a kid, I visited this museum and was dazzled by the amazing tale of a modern day treasure hunter named Mel Fisher. It was a story of great determination, dedication, perseverance and loss. Even though I was very young, I remembered it well because it inspired me and impressed me greatly. I couldn't wait to share it with my own children one day. The museum was on top of our must-see list upon visiting Key West last week. We visited on 6/22, and now I wish we had skipped it. Needless to say, I was very disappointed with this museum today. We didn't mind paying the very high admission fee ($18 per person) because we thought we were getting what the museum used to offer. Instead, our experience was that the treasure is gone. Anything interactive (including the film about Mel Fisher's lifelong dedication to finding the Atocha treasure) is gone. Most details of his journey of perseverance and loss are gone. In place of what used to be there is a very extensive homage to the slaves that Spain sent in order to recover the lost treasure in the 1600s. I was confused by the major changes that have occurred, so I asked a staff member about all of it. Typically in a museum, questions are welcomed by the staff, but this woman was immediately hostile to me. She was incredibly defensive when I asked her if I was remembering correctly that there used to be much more treasure on display, and then she acted as though I was unappreciative of the extensive story of the slaves' plight. It was a VERY bizarre response to my questions. Looking in other reviews, I can see that I'm not the only one who had a negative experience with this woman. She should not be working with the public. When I asked her about why the film was no longer shown, she took the opportunity to virtue signal to me about the responsibility of not having people in close quarters with one another "breathing each other's air." Meanwhile she's talking to me through her thin, cotton, shark mouth buff that I could actually see her lips through. I hate to break it to you, lady, but that thing you're wearing isn't blocking out any viruses. She also took a break in her finger wagging at me to scold my son about picking up a toy from the gift shop that she was afraid he was going to break. He was simply holding it and looking at it, and it was a kitschy trinket geared towards children! No adult I know would have ever even picked it up. This woman ruined the whole experience for us. Had she answered my questions honestly and pleasantly, we would have left there with a different feeling. Since leaving, I have done a little research and have found that the Fisher family is no longer connected to this museum. Why didn't this woman just tell me that? I also found that the Fisher family has opened their own museum in Sebastian, Florida and that a lot of treasure pieces are on display there. They also have the film that used to be shown in the Key West museum. I am guessing that they possibly have the rights to it, and that's why it's not shown at the Key West museum anymore?? Anyway: Here's the bottom line -- this place is uninteresting, lacking in display, staff is RUDE, and it's also the last place in Key West still requiring mask wearing (PLEASE!!). Eye roll!!! Skip this place, and go see the real thing in Sebastian, FL where admission is $7.