Orange Beach Indian & Sea Museum: A Beautiful Local Museum

The Indian & Sea Museum is housed in a structure initially constructed as a schoolhouse in 1910. Since 1995, it has been a museum, and in 1999, it relocated to its current location. When you go up to the Indian & Sea Museum on John M. Snook Avenue (not far from the Orange Beach vacation rentals or Gulf Shores condominiums), you’ll note that it’s a historical schoolhouse with a modest white bell tower that’s still standing. However, a hurricane in the late 1920s destroyed the bell itself. The schoolhouse was built in 1910, and some of the original objects and furnishings date back more than a century.

If you visit this museum, you’ll see the original small wooden school desks and imagine the simple but difficult life that previously existed—the time when children warmed themselves with wood-burning stoves and played with a goat in the schoolyard.

You’ll discover how two families in Orange Beach history, one of the shrimpers and the other fisherman, developed the town’s fishing business. Various fishing and boating equipment and vintage farming tools are on show in this Orange Beach museum. Click here to get more information.

The preservation of Gulf Coast maritime and Indian heritage and local history is the focus of this one-of-a-kind museum. The city of Orange Beach owns the building, which is housed in a historical schoolhouse with original furnishings. There are tours and programs available.

If you prefer looking at tangible things that tell stories over a century old, a two-hour day trip to the Indian & Sea Museum in Orange Beach is for you. Learn about the town’s history and how it grew from a Native American settlement to a fishing village to the tourist destination it is today.

You’ll learn about life for families and anglers before electricity, motorboats, and air conditioning and envision what it was like in a small-town schoolhouse 100 years ago. You’ll also be able to see how Indians hunted and fished along the beaches and in the woodland parts of Baldwin County hundreds of years before European immigrants came. Another popular spot for water lovers and science enthusiasts is the Sea Sand Stars Science and Nature Center. You can learn all about the Sea Sand Stars Science and Nature Center by clicking here.

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