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.
The museum opened in 1996.
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. The Coastal Zone museum explores coral reef ecology in Belize.
References
- ^ Environmental Conservation Organization (1997). Eco: journal of environmental information. Environmental Conservation Organization Limited.
- ^ Meb Cutlack (2000). Belize: Ecotourism in Action. Macmillan Education, Limited. ISBN 978-0-333-77329-1.
- ^ Anne Sutherland (1998). The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 139–. ISBN 978-0-89789-579-8.
- ^ Peter Eltringham (2001). The Rough Guide to Belize. Rough Guides. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-1-85828-710-2.
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