The museum is located northwest of Sault St Marie and is located on the grounds of the Whitefish Point Light Station. The museum is one of several that pay tribute to sailors lost in the Great Lakes. It has been an eye opener as to how many ships and boats that have been lost to the lakes. Most people are familiar with the most famous sinking (in our times), the Edmund Fitzgerald, but there have been hundreds of sinkings over the last 200+ years, sometimes with the loss of more lives than the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The musem highlights several of the shipwrecks but contains an item that is of special interest to your photographer. A fresnel lens from a lighthouse. I think these lenses are artwork. Hopefully the pictures here will be of good enough quality to back that up.
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