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Joining The National Museum of the Great Lakes as a member allows you to share a commitment to our mission: to preserve and make known the important history of the U.S. and Canadian Great Lakes.

We accomplish this mission by operating the National Museum of the Great Lakes, the Col. James M. Schoonmaker Museum Ship, and Maritime Park in Toledo. We also publish Inland Seas®, the finest quarterly journal dedicated to Great Lakes history in the world! We educate the public with our speaker’s bureau. We also research and investigate shipwrecks with the Peachman Great Lakes Shipwreck Research Program. These activities and facilities make The Great Lakes Historical Society the premier organization dedicated to preserving the history of the Great Lakes!

For more details on our two levels of membership packages, see:

Membership

Membership Benefits

Benefit	Day Ticket	Museum Only	Museum + Inland Seas®
Entrance to the Museum for one day	X	X	X
Free entrance to the museum for one year		X	X
Reduced and Free admission to certain special events		X	X
10% discount in the museum gift shop		X	X
10% discount on fee based education programs		X	X
Subscription to The Chadburn – our quarterly newsletter		X	X
Subscription to the E-Chadburn – our monthly electronic newsletter		X	X
1 year subscription to Inland Seas®			X
A Great Lakes Ships Calendar			X

Membership Information (Downloadable pdf)

NMGL Membership Brochure

News

“Boo on the Boat” Halloween Tradition ContinuesOctober 14, 2021 - 9:57 am
October 14, 2021 (Toledo, Ohio) – Beginning Friday, October 29 through Halloween Day, the National Museum of the Great Lakes (NMGL) invites visitors to trick-or-treat aboard two of Toledo’s most historic haunts—the Col. James M. Schoonmaker Museum Ship and the Museum Tug Ohio. “Boo on the Boat has become a fun tradition for so many,”
New ‘Bradstreet’s Disaster’ Temporary Micro-exhibit Takes Visitors Back in TimeOctober 12, 2021 - 8:24 am
October 12, 2021 (Toledo, Ohio) –The National Museum of the Great Lakes has opened up a temporary new “micro-exhibit” highlighting the story of Col. John Bradstreet’s disastrous campaign during “Pontiac’s Rebellion” after the French and Indian War. “It was October 18, 1764, when Col. John Bradstreet took upwards of 60 bateaus and 9 canoes and
Fall Lecture Series sets sail with a “Message in a BottleOctober 6, 2021 - 8:18 am
October 6, 2021 (Toledo, Ohio) – On Wednesday, October 20, at 7 p.m. the National Museum of the Great Lakes (NMGL) will begin their annual fall lecture series with “Bottled Goodbyes”—a conversation exploring famous messages that have floated ashore. Presented by Ric Mixter and based on his newest book Bottled Goodbyes—Messages from Shipwreck and Aviation

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