Bermuda Maritime Museum
West End Area
This museum really was a fortress at one time in history, and if you like forts, you'll love the Bermuda Maritime Museum. The museum occupies six acres on the Royal Naval Dockyard in Sandys Parish. It's got a moat and you actually will walk over the moat when you enter the fortress/museum. The fortress was used as an arsenal after its construction in the 1800s, and you can tell by the tall vaulted brick ceilings that lots and lots of ammunition was once crammed into its walls. Today, instead of ammo, the building hold
exhibits, each with its own theme. These buildings are:
- Shifting House, built in 1837 as an unloading area for ammo. Now it holds the shipwreck display, including pieces from the original shipwreck Sea Venture
- Boatloft, which recognizes and memorializes Bermuda's maritime heritage, with display of handcrafted boats and cedar sail boats.
- Queen's Exhibition Hall, where you will see shaling and navigation displays along iwth model ships.
- has Bermuda coins and bills.
- Building No. 4 has historical maps and explorer artifacts
- The Forster Cooper Buildinghas the old barrel-making facilities
Walk outside and wander around the fortress walls for panoramic views of the ocean. You'll also find the Commissioner's House, which housed the Dockyard commissioner and was built by convicts. Tour the house for even more history of Bermuda.
Get to the Bermuda Maritime Museum by going to the Dockyard at the Northwestern-most tip of Bermuda.
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