Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center in Alpena offers exciting exhibits for all ages with a replica wooden Great lakes Schooner and shipwreck, and visitors can experience a Great Lakes Storm and touch the massive timbers of the boat on the lake bottom, and not even get wet. This visitor center for the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve is a veritable maritime museum with theater showing daily films, and has scientific research facilities, can host events and meetings, has a dive operations and boat building center and watercraft workshop and more. Come enjoy a picnic in the grounds and learn about maritime heritage resources in the Great Lakes.