Reviews of Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston (Museum)

yu chen

This is an excellent museum. Our family of three thoroughly enjoyed it, including our 7 year old son. The main building is interesting as it is, but being able to tour the museum ship Alexander Henry just made our visit that much better. In the main building there are many different areas of interest and several hands on displays to keep the younger kids engaged. We spent a great deal of time in the waterways and shipping section, a big interest for our family. We also spent quite a bit of time on the Alexander Henry itself, enjoying being able to explore the ship at our leisure.

guillaume Casimir

(Translated) quite empty only one room is a shame (Original) assez vide une seule salle c´est assez dommage

François-Michel Brière

The walk around the Alexander Henry is a fond memory. Good museum for families. Not expensive and interesting exhibits.

Scott Meaney

Underrated museum, definitely worthwhile to visit!

Tori Giampietro

Relatively inexpensive museum with self guided tours through an old coast guard ship, and 7 exhibits from shipwrecks to ship construction, modern and older

vishvesh kaushik

The guide was very knowledgeable and explained very well.

Oguz Sarkut

Small Free museum definitely deserve donation. We had a very nice tour guide explaining different types of ships and boats on the lake by the time.15 to 30 min. They deserve a bigger location again

Coraline Bretonneau

It's definitely worth your time to go there and listen to the stories from the volunteer explaining the different uses of the boats and some well explained history facts! ????

sweet anne

Very disappointing they moved their location to a very small one room office space. Not until we gave a donation we were told this is it everything else is in storage. There were only 5 items to look at.

陈爱民

(Translated) Nice little city (Original) 不错的小城市

Debobrata M

Nice place to visit as tourists!

Igor Pivovar

Small and interesting museum. Attention, the former museum ship Alexander Henry is no longer on display.

Stephen LaGuardia

Great maritime museum, kid friendly. Interesting exhibit about the history and evolution of the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Hands on displays of various ship technologies, and spooky collection of artifacts from many of the great lake shipwrecks. Don't miss the chance to walk around the old coast guard ice breaker they have there, the Alexander Henry. We have been to many maritime museums but the freedom to explore the well preserved inner workings of the Alexander Henry is a truly unique experience. We came away with a better understand of how these big ships work and what life aboard would have been like.

Quinn Ressler

This is a great museum if you like maritime history, but the ship is very interesting regardless. I am sorry to hear they are closing next month, but I recommend this to anyone until then.

Timothy Bloedow

Very interesting one-room museum. Free, donations accepted. Great your guide.

Matthew Elliott

Lots of interesting information and there was a very friendly and knowledgable staff member there. The current location is sadly far too small and hopefully they can return to a larger location.

Theresa Barr

Boring

Matthew Behr

It's been closed down. They're trying to move location soon.

Mike M

Temporary spot till they get a bigger Museum. Very friendly

rhea wood

The Marine Museum and the Alexander Henry (an imposing and magnificent Coast Guard Ship) are tributes not only to Kingston's history on Lake Ontario but to all the cities/towns on all of the Great Lakes.Over the years, as my grandsons grew from small boys to young men, we greatly enjoyed climbing onto the Alexander Henry and pretending that we were sailors out on one of the Great Lakes. Additionally,we were awed by the collection of maps, pictures, paintings, historical papers and other Great Lakes memorabilia that are protected in the museum. With the passing years my grandsons and I came to fully realize the importance of the Marine Museum in protecting the history of the Great Lakes. Now with great sorrow I have to tell my grandsons (who live in the US) that they will no longer be able to visit their friend ,the Alexander Henry, when they make their annual summer visit. The loss of the Marine Museum and the Alexander Henry is a tragedy for all of us who live in Kingston and who are proud of Kingston's history and a tragedy as well for all of those who visited the Marine Museum and the Alexander Henry as children and who want to visit the museum and ship with their children/grandchildren.So,if you are visiting Kingston before August 23rd 2016, a visit the Museum is a must before its doors are closed forever.

Beverly Fields

Can’t speak to the quality of the museum because we never made it inside. Very poor signage so took awhile to find the entrance even with GPS. Handwritten sticky note on the door indicating they were closed until 1pm but then no one showed up to open the door. We waited a bit then gave up especially after reading the April 2018 review.

Christian Galaxy

Unfortunately they closed it down and now all that's left is a tiny room with a few ship models