Updated: 3/3/2011
The Museum is dedicated to preserving the people, culture, and heritage of the Island. Exhibits display life on this barrier island from before man to the present with fossils, Indian artifacts, implements from our oyster and seafood industry, sailing, and businesses. Museum houses an 1866 Fresnel lens and an 1880 fire company hand pumper and contemporaneous videos of island events.
To preserve the people, culture and heritage of Chincoteague Island.
Museum of Chincoteague Island is a non-profit educational institution founded in 1965 as the Oyster Museum and changed its name to Oyster and Maritime Museum in 1996 when it acquired the Fresnel lens. The name of the Museum was changed in 2011 to more correctly reflect its collection.
April - November open daily except Monday 11am-5pm
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