Texas Maritime Museum
1684 French map of the Gulf of Mexico (Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, Washington , DC)
Nocturnal, used at night to calculate time.
La Belle scale model
Painting: La Salle’s Expedition to Louisiana in 1684, by Theodore Gudin. (Reunion des Musees Nationaux/Art Resource, New York)
Find your way to this bayside museum, and you'll discover exhibits about the art and science of navigation, including the tools used to pilot a ship during La Salle's time. A large, modern facility built in 1989, the museum features a scale model of La Belle and personal belongings of it crewmembers, offering a window onto seventeenth-century shipboard life.
Texas Maritime Museum
- Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sunday, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
- Admission: Adults: $8, Seniors/Military: $6, Children to age 12: $3
- 1202 Navigation Circle, Rockport, TX
- 361-729-1271
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