Look what's opening this weekend

NEWS RELEASE

GREAT LAKES SHIPWRECK MUSEUM

************************* The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, one of Michigan's most popular travel destinations in the Upper Peninsula, opens for the 2010 season on Saturday, May 1.

The museum is located at the historic Whitefish Point Light Station, Whitefish Point Michigan.

The museum is operated by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society.

Visitors experience a self-guided tour of the Shipwreck Museum building, with exhibits featuring Lake Superior shipwrecks, the history of Whitefish Point, the U.S. Lighthouse Service and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Visitors see a 15-minute video - Shipwreck: The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald - and enjoy a tour of the 1861 Lightkeepers Quarters Building, the restored Surfboat House featuring a replica Beebe-McClellan 26-foot surfboat and the Ghosts of the Shipwreck Coast exhibit.

The Shipwreck Museum, historic buildings and Shipwreck Coast Museum Store are open May 1 through October 31, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

Group rates are available.

The U.S. Coast Guard Crews Quarters building is open for overnight stays.

For more information, please call the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at 888-492-3747.

You may also visit the museum here. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society's 400 W. Portage Avenue, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan location is also open, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Summer hours starting May 15 will be 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

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