Key West Shipwreck Museum

The Key West Shipwreck Museum is identified by its sixty-five-foot observation tower, a replica of the wooden lookouts once used by wreckers to spot ships in distress along the treacherous Florida Reef. Located within a structure designed to emulate a nineteenth-century wrecker’s warehouse, the museum focuses on the era when salvaging cargo from groundings made Key West the wealthiest city per capita in the United States.