the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park — which includes the historic pier, vintage wooden vessels and the World War II-era USS Pampanito, a maritime museum and the Aquatic Park beach ...

has been reborn as part of a vastly expanded San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. In the past, the maritime museum consisted entirely of a white, ship-shaped 1939 structure at Polk and ...

A major search is under way for the missing works of William A. Coulter, a renowned San Francisco maritime artist. Coulter, who painted and sketched for 67 years, was a witness to "the most ...

From noon on Oct. 19 to around 1 p.m. the next day, some 300 people came through the San Francisco Maritime Museum to witness and partake in a collective reading journey involving a notorious whale.

The San Francisco Maritime Museum's library, which has the largest and best collection of materials on ships and the sea on the Pacific Coast, will be closed to the public, except by appointment ...

The San Francisco Maritime Museum features interactive exhibits, ship models, figureheads, maritime paintings, photos, and artifacts. Its library has a premiere collection of martime history ...

Afterward, stroll to Aquatic Park, where swimmers brave the frigid San Francisco Bay and the park’s bathhouse, now the Maritime Museum (free). Take in its striking Streamline Moderne Art Deco ...

The murals were painted in the San Francisco Maritime Museum, which was originally built as a bathhouse, as part of a federal works project in 1939. They featured abstract nautical themes with ...

San Francisco Maritime National Historic Site celebrates the history of America’s relationship with the sea. The site is comprised of three main sections: the Maritime Museum, the visitor ...

"We have a really interesting exhibit about the buried ships underneath downtown San Francisco," said Lynn Cullivan with the National Historic Maritime Museum. "There's always new information ...