Port Huron Museum

Over spring break, I had the opportunity to visit the Port Huron Museum. It is found downtown Port Huron and consist of four locations. The Thomas Edison depot museum, the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse, the Huron lightship, and then the actual museum in which I visited because I didn’t have time to visit the others. Physical this museum I kind of tough to go to because its off a main street kind of tucked away from the rest of downtown. And once you enter you must walk up a main flight then back down a flight to find the main desk and there weren’t any signs. Once you find the front desk you must go down another flight of stairs to start

The basement is full of local art which is for sale which is cool, but there weren’t labels for all the art and there was also a long table and chair that made it seem like there was just a lunch in and they didn’t fold the chairs yet. But other than that, it was a neat room full of local art. Then you move up to the next floor and that held civil war and world war 1 memorabilia from local people who fought or had contributed in war efforts, they also had a chair from Lincoln from when he was in Illinois which I thought was one of the coolest things. On the third and final floor was where they held all the artifacts that pertained to boats or living on the water, because as you may know Port Huron is a city found right on the water so shipping has always been a large part of Port Huron’s history. After concluding the walk though you can go back to the main desk and visit the gift shop.

The pros of this museums are it teaches a lot about local history, it could be a huge influence on the community. The cons of this museum are it is tough geologically to get to, there was only one employ when we went so there wasn’t anyone we could ask for information if we needed it. But overall om glad I was finally able to visit and I plan to go again this summer