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Mel Fisher Maritime Museum
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200 Greene St
Key West, FL
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The museum dedicated to real-life treasure hunter and explorer Mel Fisher, with some of his prized coins and finds on display!
Some cool treasures, gold bars and learn the story about the greatest treasure hunt in our nation.
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum & Historical Society Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum.jpg Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum is located in FloridaMel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum Location within Florida Location 200 Greene Street Key West, Florida Coordinates 24.557965°N 81.806495°W Type Maritime Archaeology Website Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mel Fisher. The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum is located at 200 Greene Street, Key West, Florida. The museum contains an extensive collection of artifacts from 17th-century shipwrecks, such as the Henrietta Marie, Nuestra Señora de Atocha, and Santa Margarita.[1] Also included are the shipwrecks and artifacts of The Santa Clara, a Conquistador-era galleon (1564), The Guerrero & Nimble. A rotating gallery exists on the second floor of the museum and is currently displaying an exhibit or artifacts belonging to Cuban Rafters, Balseros, who arrive to Key West in hand-crafted vessels. Terrestrial archaeological cites include The African Cemetery of Key West, located on Higg's Beach. The museum is named for founder Mel Fisher and was created as a 501(c)3 non-profit charity organization, thus Fisher's fortune is not financially linked to the museum. It is a museum, a lab, and a nationally recognized research facility. Within the museum is a fully operating Conservation and Archaeology lab, where guests are allowed admittance during a daily private Lab Tour and are able to touch the artifacts while learning about the various stages of artifact conservation. Some artifacts, depending on type and density, can take anywhere from weeks to years for full conservation before they are placed on display in the museum. As of December 2015 the upstairs exhibits, in addition to the slave ship Henrietta Marie, included displays about a group of freed slaves in Key West in 1860, the preservation of items recovered underwater, and Caribbean piracy.
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum & Historical Society Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum.jpg Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum is located in FloridaMel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum Location within Florida Location 200 Greene Street Key West, Florida Coordinates 2…
Mel Fisher spent 7 years successfully salvaging the 1715 Fleet, a fleet of sunken treasure-laden ships, which sank off the coastline - which is why the surrounding area got the name, "Florida's Treasure Coast". He then went on to discover the main pile of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha in July of 1985. This is the largest underwater treasure find in history. Mel's family continues the search for the remaining cargo of the Atocha today.
Mel Fisher spent 7 years successfully salvaging the 1715 Fleet, a fleet of sunken treasure-laden ships, which sank off the coastline - which is why the surrounding area got the name, "Florida's Treasure Coast". He then went on to discover the main pile of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha in July of 1985…