The Great Lakes Maritime Institute’s annual Marine Mart returns to the Dossin Great Lakes Museum this year on Saturday, November 21 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.!
The Mart is a vendor marketplace designed for Great Lakes enthusiasts. It features great holiday shopping and shiploads of nautical items and treasures, including: lighthouse prints, nautical stipple ink prints, original and acrylic prints, unique nautical gifts, hand painted Christmas ornaments with Michigan lighthouses, postcards, magazines, china, souvenirs, clocks, marine art, nautical charts, maritime artifacts, boat items, nautical artifacts, nautical photographs, woodworking, lithographs, brochures, acrylic paintings, out-of-print Great Lakes books, ship models and much, much more.
All tickets are available at the door. Between 9 and 11 a.m., early birds will pay $7 for adults, and children ages 12 and under are free. After 11 a.m., the Dossin Museum opens to the public and admission to the Marine Mart is free to everyone!
For vendor table information, please contact Kathy McGraw at mcgrawka@sbcglobal.net or call 313.806.6458.
The Dossin Great Lakes Museum is located at 100 Strand Drive on Belle Isle. Admission is free for all, all the time. Permanent exhibits include Built by the River in the John A. and Marlene L. Boll Foundation Gallery, the Miss Pepsi vintage 1950s championship hydroplane, the Gothic Room from the City of Detroit III in the Polk Family Hall, a bow anchor from the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the pilothouse from the Great Lakes freighter S.S. William Clay Ford in the Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation Gallery, and one of the largest known collections of scale model ships in the world. For more information, call the Museum at 313.833.5538 or check out our website at detroithistorical.org.
Source: Detroit Historical Society