Pure Michigan Byway

The Maritime Museum is located in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the Glen Haven Historic District. Visitors can learn about the history of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, and Great Lakes shipping. The boathouse next to the museum is open for visitors to see the life-saving equipment used during the early 1900's. This structure is the original Sleeping Bear Point U.S. Life-Saving Station which was moved to its present location because the encroaching sand dunes. A room on the second floor is outfitted as a Steamer Wheelhouse with a panoramic view of the Manitou Passage shipping channel. During the summer at 3 pm each day, there is a re-enactment of the breeches buoy rescue drill using Raggedy Ann and Andy as the shipwreck victims.