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

Entrance

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200 Greene St,

• Voucher valid for 60 days after selected travel date

End point

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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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Sunshinestately

Jun 2021

For the amount of treasure recovered from Atocha, it would be better to see more items in a better managed museum. The staff did not seem welcoming from the female person outside with the admission stickers to the male person who was mostly behind a raised desk area on the first floor to the male person who walked around the upstairs not engaging with anyone, the whole place felt unwelcoming. . The signage is descriptive and educational. The video in the first room as you enter was supposed to run every 15 minutes according to the sign. It never came on. The second floor describes underwater archaeology probably so it meets school field trip qualifications. The room on the Cuban missile crisis mentions how Castro defeated the previous leader who is mentioned as corrupt but no mention is made about the regime under Castro. The signs describing democracy, then communism, then socialism could use revision in its definition of socialism. Socialism is not the rosy picture of life that the words promote. Maybe it’s a local attitude in Key West and the sign was written to promote that attitude for South Florida. I had also read you are allowed to touch a silver bar from the treasure. We did not see that option.Truthfully, we enjoyed the History of Diving Museum more. It is over 1 hour 40 minutes away from Key West.

I9816DVsusanw

May 2021

My experience was awful! The whole time the mask nazi’s were hounding me about how I was wear my mask . The were threatening and not nice about it. I thought Florida was open for business and massless. I felt like I just stepped off the plane in Russia. This was my fourth visit to the Mel Fisher museum and I can honestly say the experience has greatly declined. I can no longer recommend this activity to others. I will never be back

Global09903327802

May 2021

Wow, was I pleasantly surprised by this museum. The plentiful artifacts and beauties of the Spanish treasure ship, the story of the dogged search and discovery, a whole additional exhibit on pirates, and yet another on the slave trade make this one of the better small museums I have visited around the world. We spent nearly 2 hours there. Be sure you don’t mistakenly go to the kitschier “Shipwreck” museum nearby. That might be OK for kids, but if you like a museum with merit and sound research, go to Mel Fisher.