Lancaster Maritime Museum

This award-winning Lancaster Maritime museum was designed by Richard Gillow, and opened as a museum in 1985. Housed in the former Custom House of 1764 in a delightful riverside setting, Lancaster Maritime Museum covers the maritime trade of Lancaster, the history of the port, the Lancaster Canal and the fishing industry of the Lune Estuary and Morecambe Bay using sound, smells, reconstructions and audiovisuals. Features include four restored local fishing vessels, and an aquarium. Shop, café, toilets accessible to disabled people, lift accessible to disabled people, assistance dogs allowed, induction loop, fully accessible to disabled users, baby changing facilities

Free Admission to Lancaster Maritime Musuem is available to local residents. For other admission prices please see website.

Open daily except Christmas and New Year
Easter to October 11.00 to 17.00
November to Easter 12.30 to 16.00

Friends of Lancaster Maritime Museum support the work of the museum and have an email address at which they can be contacted for further information. The email address is: lancfriends@oxborrowc.freeserve.co.uk

Opening Times

Opening 21 Mar 2008 - 31 Oct 2008

Opening 1 Nov 2008 - 31 Mar 2009

Events

Tickets Information

Road Directions

Leave the M6 at jct 33 or 34 and follow signs for Lancaster city centre. Follow the signs for the A6 north from the city centre and turn left in St George's Quay just before reaching the bus station. Lancaster Maritime Museum is located about half a mile along the quayside.

Public Transport Directions

Lancaster Maritime Museum is a short walk from city centre.

 Facilities

• Concessionary Admission Charges
• Disabled Access/Toilets
• Guide Dogs Welcome
• Indoor
• Open All Year
• Family Fun
• Marketed towards children
• Marketed towards families
• Marketed towards senior citizens
• Parking (free)
• Toilets

Accessibility

• Café/Restaurant On Site
• Car Parking