Maritime Museum (Belize)

The Maritime Museum is a museum in Belize City, Belize. The museum is located at the North Front St, Marine Terminal at Swing Bridge in the former fire station.[1][2] The museum opened in 1996.[3]

Along with the adjacent Coastal Zone museum, their mission is to educate visitors about Belize's seafaring and shipbuilding history through a series of old documents, model boats, paintings and other displays.[4] The Coastal Zone museum explores coral reef ecology in Belize.

References
  1. Environmental Conservation Organization (1997). Eco: journal of environmental information. Environmental Conservation Organization Limited.
  2. Meb Cutlack (2000). Belize: Ecotourism in Action. Macmillan Education, Limited. ISBN 978-0-333-77329-1.
  3. Anne Sutherland (1998). The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 139–. ISBN 978-0-89789-579-8.
  4. Peter Eltringham (2001). The Rough Guide to Belize. Rough Guides. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-1-85828-710-2.

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