Come see us and say hello September 3-4 in Sister Bay for Marina Fest. We will have our Whitehall boat on display and will be selling raffle tickets to win it!
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Come see us and say hello September 24 in Baileys Harbor for Autumnfest. We will have our Whitehall boat on display and will be selling raffle tickets to win it!
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Come see us and say hello September 17 in Sturgeon Bay for Harvest Festival. We will have our Whitehall boat on display and will be selling raffle tickets to win it!
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The Door County Maritime Museum will be highlighting some of its new and existing exhibits at its Gills Rock Maritime Museum on Sunday, Sept. 4, from noon until 4 p.m. This special event will feature maritime guests and experts that will help bring the exhibits to life.
The event will be used to help introduce the museum’s newly restored 1917 Kahlenberg engine as well as the refurbished Plum Island Fresnel lens. Trygvie Jensen, author of “Through Waves and Gales Come Fisherman Tales” and “Wooden Boats and Iron Men,” will also be on board the commercial fishing tug Hope answering questions about commercial fishing and its tugs.
Kurt Krueger restored the Kahlenberg and will explain the workings of this remarkable engine. “Hear what it took to restore this workhorse of commercial fishing and the story behind this particular engine,” said Adam Gronke, museum curator. “Every single nut and bolt was taken off, cleaned, repaired and restored to it’s original,” said Gronke.
The engine sat outside for more than 25 years. It is originally off the fishing tug King in Ellison Bay, and had been in storage in Sturgeon Bay following Krueger’s ambitious restoration project. It was moved to Gills Rock on July 13. It is now one of four Kahlenbergs in the Gills Rock Maritime Museum.
Kurt Fosburg is one of the few in the United States who is licensed to remove, clean and repair Fresnel lenses for the United Stated Coast Guard. He removed the Plum Island light as well as the Green Bay entry light that is currently on display at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay.
The Plum Island light was constructed in Paris, France, in 1889 and served until 2015 when it was replaced with a LED light. Originally invented by Augustine Fresnel in 1822, the lenses were used extensively along European and North American coasts. They ranged in size from first to sixth order (first being the largest). The Plum Island lens is a fourth order lens, a very common size for the Great Lakes.
A representative of the Friends of Plum and Pilot Islands (FOPPI) will also be at the Gills Rock Maritime Museum to discuss and answer questions related to its mission of preserving, restoring and maintaining the lighthouses and other historic structures on Plum and Pilot Island.
This special event is free to all Door County Maritime Museum and Friends of Plum and Pilot Island members. General admission to the event is $6 for adults and $3 for children.
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Join us at the Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club on Tuesday, October 4th for our Annual Meeting.
The evening starts at 5:00 PM with a social, followed by a beautiful buffet dinner and dessert at 6:00 PM, and then the Annual Meeting, which begins at 7:00 PM.
Dinner for DCMM members is $25, and for non-members is $28.
Please RSVP by September 26th to 920-743-5958 to reserve your space.
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The museum will be hosting its annual Volunteer Picnic on Monday, September 26th at Sawyer Park in Sturgeon Bay.
The event starts at 5:30 PM and will feature burgers, brats, and all the fixin’s for a late summer picnic, plus dessert, a bag raffle, and plenty of social time with staff and other volunteers.
If you volunteered at DCMM this year, please join us by RSVP’ing by September 19th to 920-743-5958.
See you there!
If you didn’t volunteer this year, but would like to be a part of our volunteer corps, please call us or sign up by clicking below.
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FALL LIGHTHOUSE FESTIVAL TOURS
Reacting to the popularity of the Lighthouse Festival each June and positive response to last October’s first installment of an abbreviated autumn Lighthouse Festival, the Door County Maritime Museum is again offering some of its most popular tours Columbus Day weekend. Reservations are now being taken for these fantastic nautical adventures that will take place October 8-9 with discounts being offered for museum members.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8
LAND BASED TOUR
LIGHTHOUSE WINERY TOUR
Departs Baileys Harbor Town Hall at 1 p.m.
$49 per person. Package includes tour costs at Eagle Bluff Lighthouse and Ridges Range Lights. Offered in conjunction with Door County Nature & Travel Tours. Capacity: 23.
Four-hour tour includes stops at the Ridges Range Lights, Cana Island Lighthouse and Eagle Bluff Lighthouse. Tour will be capped with a stop at one of the peninsula’s wineries.
BOAT EXCURSIONS
SAIL DOOR COUNTY SCHOONER CRUISE
Departs from Sister Bay Marina at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
$62 for DCMM members/$65 for non-members. Offered in conjunction with Sail Door County. Capacity: 22 per tour.
Set sail into yesteryear on a 19th century tall ship to Peninsula State Park’s Eagle Bluff Lighthouse. Join the crew in hoisting halyard or sit back and enjoy the trip on a 65-foot schooner, the Edith M. Becker. A 2 ½-hour sailing adventure with views of the rocky shore, islands, caves and majestic bluffs. Hear the cannon sound and they strike sale at the end of the cruise.
DEATH’S DOOR CRUISE
Departs Gills Rock Dock at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
$49. Offered in conjunction with Shoreline Charters. Capacity: 14 per tour.
Take this intimate narrated 90-minute tour aboard the Shoreline Charter into Death’s Door, some of the most history-rich straits on the Great Lakes. Highlights include water views of the Range Lights and abandoned Coast Guard Station on Plum Island and then eerie Pilot Island with its bare trees and lighthouse.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9
BOAT EXCURSIONS
CHAMBERS ISLAND TOUR
Departs the Fish Creek dock aboard the Quo Vadis at 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
$65 for DCMM members/$69 for non-members. Offered in conjunction with Fish Creek Scenic Boat tours. Capacity: 40 per tour.
Access to the lighthouse will require a 1-1/2-mile docent-led hike across the island from the marina featuring some interesting stops along the way. A lighthouse caretaker will meet the tours. Once at the lighthouse, you will be able to soak up the amazing view and climb to the top of the lantern room platform.
Note: Good hiking shoes are recommended and participants should be in good enough shape to handle the hike.
Time on the island will be approximately 2-plus hours (total time with boat ride 3-1/2 hours.
EAGLE BLUFF LIGHTHOUSE/ISLANDS CRUISE
Departs Sister Bay Marina at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
$49. Offered in conjunction with Shoreline Charters Tours. Capacity: 23 per tour.
A 90-minute- 2 hour cruise along the scenic coastline to Eagle Bluff Lighthouse. Along the way you will see spectacular homes on towers bluffs and be amazed by the large caves. Continuing on the lighthouse enjoy the views of the Strawberry Islands and other islands in the distance.
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Come see us and say hello October 8-9 in Egg Harbor for Pumpkin Patch. We will have our Whitehall boat on display and will be selling raffle tickets to win it! The drawing for the Whitehall and all of the other raffle prizes will happen on October 9th!
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Each year the Museum hosts a wooden boatbuilding class, keeping this maritime tradition alive. Aspiring boat builders have an opportunity to gain firsthand skills in the age-old craft of building wooden boats. The class is open to beginners as well as experienced woodworkers.
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Joyously celebrate the holidays by enjoying dozens of beautifully decorated Christmas trees scattered throughout the Museum’s galleries. Lovingly decorated by local businesses and organizations, each of these extraordinary trees is adorned with beautiful ornaments and special surprises.
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A monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as their setting or subject matter. This first meeting of the 2016-2017 season serves as an orientation with book list and other information available. New participants are always welcome and participants may attend as many — or as few … continue reading
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A monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as their setting or subject matter. The selection for this month is Death in Cold Water: A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery by Patricia Skalka.
On a bracing autumn day in Door County, a prominent philanthropist disappears. Is the elderly Gerald Sneider—known as “Mr. Packer” for his legendary support of Green Bay football—suffering from dementia, or just avoiding his greedy son? Is there a connection to threats against the National Football League?
As tourists flood the peninsula for the fall colors, Sheriff Dave Cubiak’s search for Sneider is stymied by the FBI. When human bones wash up on the Lake Michigan shore, the sheriff has more than a missing man to worry about. With the media demanding answers and two puzzles to solve, Cubiak must follow his instincts down a trail of half-remembered rumors and local history to discover the shocking truth.
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A monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as their setting or subject matter. The selection for this month is The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis.
Grounded by a knee injury, Dennis learns to live at a slower pace while staying in houses ranging from a log cabin on Lake Superior’s Keweenaw Peninsula to a $20 million mansion on the northern shore of Lake Michigan. While walking on beaches and exploring nearby woods and villages, he muses on the nature of time, weather, waves, agates, books, words for snow and ice, our complex relationship with nature, and much more.
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Joyously celebrate the holidays by enjoying dozens of beautifully decorated Christmas trees scattered throughout the Museum’s galleries. Lovingly decorated by local businesses and organizations, each of these extraordinary trees is adorned with beautiful ornaments and special surprises.
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We are currently in the process of booking our 2017 Maritime Speaker Series! Please save the date and check back soon for more details.
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Saturday, November 26
10:30 am – 3:30 pm
at the Door County
Maritime Museum
Enjoy our featured 
Elba Freighter interactive
game, Sea Dogs exhibit,
Scavenger Hunt,
Kids story time, Crafts,
Games and More!
Kids are FREE!
Adult admission in $10 and includes a
$5 Merry-Time Festival of Trees raffle ticket
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Merry-Time Festival of Trees
November 12, Saturday
“Merry Make & Take” Holiday Crafting Workshop
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
No need spending long hours trying to come up with new and fresh holiday crafting and decorating ideas. Four gifted holiday enthusiasts will showcase their talents and participants will go home with crafts and ideas of their own. Less stressed holidays for all. Registration is $25 and includes supplies, free admission through the museum and a Merry-Time Festival of Trees raffle ticket. Call (920) 743-5958 for tickets. Limited space available.
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Santa loves tugboats! Enjoy this unique opportunity to share your Christmas wishes when Santa makes his annual visit to the historic Tug John Purves. Come early to see him arrive at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay on a Coast Guard boat.
Kids can board the tug John Purves to sit on Santa’s lap and whisper their gift wishes in his ear. While awaiting their turn, children will enjoy classic holiday videos in the museum’s Reddin Bridge Room.
Due to the size of the tug, just two adults can accompany each child.
Saturday, December 5, 10 am – 1 pm
“Door County Medical Center’s Children’s Choir” – 11 am
Presented by Door County Medical Center, Dorothy Scott and a trio of angelic voices will perform holiday specialties and share the message of wellness, joyfulness, and good will through music.
Adult museum admission includes Santa visit.
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Opening their hearts and homes to help people of Door County. Tour homes beautifully trimmed for the holidays including the Merry-Time Festival of Trees display. Tickets are $30 and are available at the museum.
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Joyously celebrate the holidays by enjoying dozens of beautifully decorated Christmas trees scattered throughout the museum’s galleries. Lovingly decorated by local businesses and organizations, each of these extraordinary trees is adorned with beautiful ornaments and special surprises. Best of all, every tree will go home with a lucky winner in our Merry-Time Festival of Trees raffle!
The festival culminates with the Jingle, Jingle, Mix & Mingle Dec. 13th, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Join our festivities, a heavy hors d’oeuvres buffet, a live auction, a silent auction and our Merry-Time Festival of Trees raffle drawing. Tickets are $20 for members and $25 for non-members. Advanced reservations are required.
Create a new holiday tradition for your family and friends by joining in this wonderful festive event.
Contact info: (920)743-5958, info@dcmm.org
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