Past Events

Smithsonian Museum Day invites visitors to enjoy a variety of museums at free or reduced prices.  Click here to reserve a ticket to visit the Los Angeles Maritime Museum for free on Saturday, September 21.

On Sunday, December 1, from 10am - 4pm, the Los Angeles Maritime Museum's Sea Chest Museum Shop will join more than 1,200 Museum Stores representing all 50 states, 15 countries and four continents by celebrating Museum Store Sunday.  Be sure to stop by the Sea Chest to finish your holiday shopping and enjoy special discounts while supporting your favorite Maritime Museum!

This annual event will return Saturday, April 10, 2021. Stay Tuned! 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…

This year's event has been canceled. The Armed Forces Day 5K Race is an annual Torrance Tradition!  Join the 61st annual celebration of our nation’s military.  Be sure to stop by the Expo Area after the race and visit the Museum’s Outreach Booth.  Entrance to the Expo is free, for information on registering for the race visit Torrance5k.com

This year's Tech Fair has been canceled due to COVID-19. You will be amazed at the science and technology of the 19th century!  Wet-plate photography, the telegraph, iron clad ships and submarines are just some of the innovations you can explore at the Drum Barracks Civil War Technology Fair.  The Maritime Museum will be offering displays and information about maritime technology during the Civil War Era. 

Details on the rescheduling of this event will be shared as soon as possible. A new exhibit presented by the Los Angeles Maritime Museum chronicling the early years of the Wilmington Transportation Company. Founded by the Banning Brothers in 1884, “WT” operated in the port of Los Angeles for over a century, carrying passengers and cargo between Wilmington and Catalina Island.  Learn how the Banning family popularized Catalina as a vacation destination and how a devastating fire helped bring about…

This event will be rescheduled for a future date. Maritime historian, boat builder, author and sailor Olaf Engvig introduces the history of the “Scandinavian Navy”, its impact on the U.S. lumber trade, and his 30-year fight against vandals and bureaucracy to save one of the last lumber schooners. Admission is free. The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum with grant funding from the office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn. Engvig's book may…