Discoversea Shipwreck Museum — Attraction in Fenwick Island

My boyfriend and I loved stopping here before we left OC to head home. The museum itself is amazing. The artifacts and info you can read about everything is something that in my opinion you can't find anywhere else in ocean city. The fact that the owner is also who helped find everything in the exhibit is what makes it so unique. He was there giving a tour to a couple people so we got to hear a few stories about his dives and how they came to find some of the artifacts. He showed pictures from his phone of things that they recently found and haven't been put into the exhibit yet. I could've stood and listened to him for hours. It's awesome too that the exhibit is always changing. He said that every year they switch up the exhibit with new finds as some of what they have goes to other museums around the world after. The exhibit is free, with a donation box at the entrance. In my opinion that just shows that he loves what he does and wants to share it with the world because he could easily charge a fee to enter and it would still be worth it. We ended up buying one of the coins that came with a certificate of authenticity and agree that it's the best purchase we made the entire trip. You could go to a souvenir shop and spend money on little cheap nick nacks or you can go and get something that no...

Made a point to visit this place, based on a number of online reviews. I have to say, I wasn’t disappointed. When you go to one of the beaches in this part of the country, you generally have a boardwalk or strip filled with the predictable gift shops selling t-shirts and trinkets, ice cream and fudge shops, pizza parlors, etc. This was a legitimate museum on the second floor of what you’d easily write off as another typical gift shop otherwise.

The owner is a diver and recovered some of the items himself, while others are part of temporary exhibits on loan. He has a small workshop area where items are cleaned up and restored for display, too.

Among other interesting items there was a sculpture carved out of a real human bone, recovered from a pirate ship, and a crudely formed gold bar made from bootleg gold (no tax stamp on it). There was also an exhibit with dishes, silverware and some other items from the Titanic’s sister ship on the White Star line.

He does request that you not upload photos you take to the Internet without his permission. So I can’t share what I saw. But it’s free (donations welcome) and worth taking a look at it yourself if you’re...

This was a great stop during our travels! First, the shop on the first floor is huge and has a lot of variety of souvenir type things, toys, glassware, personalized things, plants, and so much more, there's also a whole room of just shells, all kinds of different sizes, shapes of seashells. Prices were reasonable, better than I expected considering the type of shop/location/etc.

Then the upstairs had the museum! (Free, but donations welcome.) There was a lot of really interesting things that have been found locally from shipwrecks, things that washed up, got dug up, from many many years ago up to relatively recently found. There are a lot of descriptions to read about the things found if you want to hear the story of what it was or how it was found.

Overall, we considered skipping this location on our travels due to timing, but decided to stop anyway, and we're all so glad we did! We would have missed out on some great purchases and seeing some really...