The Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum at the bridge in Biloxi, Miss., offers an extensive collection of boats, equipment and informational displays about the seafood industry and the boats that serve that industry. The facility is a three story modern building filled with full-size boats, numerous scale models, and panels explaining everything from shrimping, crabbing and oystering, the history of Biloxi, and even a timeline of the horrific hurricanes that have ravaged the area and industry.
Here are some pictures of the museum. Click on the images to make them larger.
Dozens of boat models
Lanterns of all kinds
The Industry Heritage Research Center
The Blessing of the Fleet is a big deal.
Lots of info on boat construction, including a cross-section.
A Lapeyre shrimp peeling machine that revolutionized the industry
Plus boats of every kind popular with area folks
A history of Biloxi in photographs
Many artistic renderings of boats in action
They even have a large-scale model of a submarine
Artifacts from the Coast Guard's Biloxi cruiser
