Ocean City Life-Saving Museum — Attraction in Ocean City

This is a relocated Lifesaving Station building at the southern-most end of the Ocean City boardwalk. Completely restored, this museum contains displays of the history of Ocean City, creation of the Inlet, the building and expansion over the years as well as a room with the old rescue equipment.

This place has an educational scavenger hunt for kids and adults set up on clipboards at the start of the displays. Finishing finding everything listed gets you a pin or some other award.

The room that used to be a kitchen has multiple salt water tanks with horseshoe crabs, fish, eels, seahorses and pipefish.

There is a display of sand from beaches around the world and old fashioned swimsuits, along with a variety of surfboards and surf mat. Murals describing the evolution of surfing on the island are on the walls of an upstairs room

The equipment room has the surf boat used and equipment for launching a line out to the ships stranded on the reef. There are displays and murals with first person accounts of the rescues.

Upstairs will be more history of the beach town and the original families that made the town what it is today. There are artifacts from the old amusement parks and "Laughing Sal" - an automaton that used to be in the fun house and will laugh when you push the button.

The building isn't set up as if a crew could come in and relax from a rescue. Except for the equipment room, most of the rooms are dedicated to museum displays about the resorts' history. You also enter into the museum through the gift shop.

Very comprehensive museum. Gives a terrific overview of the history of Ocean City.

For a life station that is set up like it was when in operation, visit the Indian River Inlet Lifesaving Station north of this one, just over the bridge of the Indian River Inlet in Delaware. That one has a separate gift shop and you walk out to explore the original station with the beds made up, kitchen set-up and...

This engaging 2-story Life Saving museum has many fascinating displays chronicling the development of Ocean City with historical photographs and fabulous artifacts. Included with a book store, gift shop, and terrific aquarium room is an amazing and mesmerizing collection of sands, row upon row in small cups, from beaches all over the world ! In another section there is an enormous, restored wooden, open lifeboat. How did rescuers manhandle this extremely heavy (800+lbs) boat into a raging surf ? It's hard to believe the widespread extent of busy offshore traffic during the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. Incredible how often these ships ran into trouble necessitating life saving stations like Indian River. Upstairs contained thoughtful exhibits featuring influential and entrepreneurial women of that era as well as bathing suits from earlier times. The vivacious concierge was welcoming, so informative and eager to answer any questions. Children and adults will have a marvelous time. Check hours & fees...

Really fun place to check out! We did the scavenger hunts for both young kids and big kids and learned a lot about what it took to save lives back in the day. There is some great items of historical significance specific to Ocean City and it was very interesting to see how people have enjoyed the island over the years. If you have ever wondered what the sand of different beaches from all over the world look like, look no further, because they have samples here that come in a range of color and coarseness. The aquarium room is small but has some really cool species that can be found locally in the wild and the kids were so excited to see everything so close. The kids also had fun putting on the captain hat for a picture in the kids room where they also had a chance to “save” a stuffed bear. We had a lot of fun here and it also served as a good place to ride out the brief squall that was...