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National Maritime Museum, Aquatic Park
Originally built in 1939 as a boathouse with restaurants and changing facilities for thousands of swimmers, the Aquatic Park Casino soon turned into a bust due to the frigid waters that attracted few swimmers. The streamline-moderne building is now the home of the city's National Maritime Museum. The museum features interactive exhibits, ship models, figureheads, maritime paintings, artifacts, and over 250,000 historic photographs. The museum sits next to a fleet of historic, turn-of-the-century ships at Hyde Street Pier.
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