St. Augustine Shipwreck Museum
Discover artifacts from famous shipwrecks like the Titanic and the Atocha at St. Augustine Shipwreck Museum.
Planning your visit
The Shipwreck Museum covers salvage and marine archaeology, with artefacts from famous wrecks including the Atocha — the Spanish galleon that sank off the Florida Keys in 1622 with a treasure cargo, found by Mel Fisher in 1985 after a sixteen-year search that cost his son's life.
Titanic material is displayed alongside.
Florida's waters hold an exceptional density of wrecks: the treasure fleets, the reefs, and the hurricane season combined to sink ships along this coast for three centuries, and the state has an entire industry of commercial salvage alongside academic archaeology — a tension the field argues about, since commercial recovery destroys archaeological context.
The museum sits in the historic district and is operated alongside the pirate museum.
Allow an hour. The main booking is an entry ticket. Current availability is listed below.
Before you book
Where is St. Augustine Shipwreck Museum?
St. Augustine Shipwreck Museum is in St. Augustine, United States.
How long should I allow for St. Augustine Shipwreck Museum?
Allow an hour. That is the time the collection itself takes at an unhurried pace, before any queue.
Do I need to book St. Augustine Shipwreck Museum in advance?
Tickets can be bought on the door at quiet times, but booking ahead fixes the date and avoids the queue at busy ones. Live availability is shown on this page.
