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March 2021
Annual Lego Shipbuilding Contest
The 2021 (Virtual) Lego Shipbuilding Contest (Where the contest is virtual, but the prizes are real!) This year our popular Lego Shipbuilding Contest is going to be held virtually! REGISTER HERE ! How will this work? Instead of visiting the museum in person, you may build a ship out of bricks you own at home. Just complete the registration form (available March 1 – April 1), email a photo of yourself next to your ship, and you will be entered…
Find out more »April 2021
POSTPONED – Presentation by Mark Rozelle: “Beside the LA River”
This event will be rescheduled to take place in person at such time as that is possible in accordance with COVID restrictions. Please check back for updates. After author Mark Rozelle discovered his grandmother’s archives containing hundreds of photographs, documents, and ephemera, he spent over a decade researching the history of his family who lived on a 114-acre ranch along the Los Angeles River. Learn how the Rozelles overcame droughts, floods, earthquakes, and the Great Depression, as the river brought…
Find out more »“Whale of a Day” Celebration
Visit the Museum's booth during the annual "Whale of a Day" Celebration at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center. "Whale of a Day" is a festival celebrating the migration of the Pacific Gray Whale from its summer feeding grounds in the Bering and Chuchki Seas in Alaska to the winter breeding and calving grounds in Baja California. There are activities for children ~ face painting, children's crafts, small children's games ~ all at no charge. There are also exhibits, craft and…
Find out more »September 2021
Presentation “A Tale of Two Lighthouses”
Los Angeles Harbor is home to two lighthouses: the Point Fermin Lighthouse and the Los Angeles Harbor Lighthouse (known as Angels Gate Light). Join Kristen Heather, Director of the Point Fermin Lighthouse Museum and Marifrances Trivelli, Director of the Los Angeles Maritime as they take us on a surprising journey through the two very different histories of these neighboring lights. The talk is free to the public and is sponsored by the Friends of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum.
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