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BACKSTORY:
Housing an astonishing myriad of marine artifacts, information, insight, and humor, the museum ties together displays of memorabilia from the logging industry to shipbuilding, from the lifesaving service to the Spruce Division (WWI), and from Native Americans to lightships and lighthouses.
Willapa Seaport Museum is literally stuffed to the rafters with nautical bric-a-brac: figureheads, ship wheels, whale bones, souvenirs from exotic lands, scrimshaw, old telegraph radios, piratical booty, and even a bust of Teddy Roosevelt.
Thanks in part to a Heritage Capital Projects grant from the Washington State Historical Society, visitors can discover the breadth and depth of the seafaring way of life.