Museums & Exhibits

The Amelia Island Museum of History will present "Surviving the Titanic" with longtime docent Chip Kirkpatrick at noon Wednesday, Oct. 1, at the Nassau County Public Library's Fernandina Beach Branch, 25 N. Fourth St. Kirkpatrick will share the story of his former Jacksonville neighbors who survived the 1912 Titanic disaster as children ages 9 and […]

This fall, the Amelia Island Museum of History will host a traveling exhibit exploring the story of the Maple Leaf. In April 1864, this Civil War–era steamship struck a Confederate mine and sank near Mandarin Point on the St. Johns River, about 30 miles upriver from Amelia Island. The ship remained buried in the river’s […]