Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum — Attraction in Biloxi

This was a great new adventure for us. The exhibits were informative in a gorgeous facility! My Dad's family, all the children worked in the Violet LA shrimp packing factory. What child labor laws? There was no government food hand outs. You worked to help feed the family. At a very young age i worked as a deck hand on family boats. We were not abused. We were taught to work hard with ethical practices and we were paid.

Then the hurricane room was emotional!! I watched the video and let the tears roll. It brought back our memories of loosing all of our possessions including our home in Slidell LA. We literally had the cloths on our back. Since the beginning of time the Gulf Coast has experienced devastating hurricanes but we choose to stay. Then all the boats and the history of the Biloxi sail boats! Such great history of the area and its people. Plan a couple of hours to really enjoy the entire...

This was a great museum and the entry price was reasonable. This is an information heavy type museum so if you don't like reading its going to be a bore. The exhibits all seem to have been donated from locals and everything seems to be in good condition. The Katrina video was way too long. Its basically clips of the broadcast from that day. It was still informative to see how people in Mississippi dealt with the storm,but there's no way a video in a museum should be that long. I really felt like the museum gave you the history of shipping and seafood from the area so anyone interested should check it out. I would call ahead as the hours may change and I would not advise that anyone purchase a ticket in advance.Also we were the only people in the entire musem that day so I guess its never crowded. There is no parking so you'll have to park on the opposite side of the...

Drove down from Indiana to visit the museum with my brother in law who was in huricane Camille in 1969. Hoping to see the history and looking forward to the video in the theatre. Walked in to the theater during the Katrina video and planning to sit through to the end and catch Camille from the beginning. Thinking it would be 10-15 min since it already started, wrong...was 90 more minutes of news reporting clips. We survived it but wow. Never been to a museum theater that played a full length feature film for an informational video.

And ... no parking except in a vacant grass lot across the street that says park at your own risk Film Needs trimmed,...