Great Lakes Museum

Very informative and enjoyable tour of the S.S. Keewatin, a decommissioned steam ship built in 1907. Most Edwardian steamships have been scrapped so this old girl is unique. She has been beautifully restored and the guides are very knowledgeable. We did the engine tour as well as the tour of the passenger areas, and both were excellent. Visiting the museum proper is included in the cost of the ticket. This museum was an excellent way to spend a rainy afternoon.

Exceptional! Did the 45 minute Keewatin ship tour. Mya was a fantastic tour guide with lots of info & willing to answer all our questions. The ship is such a special piece of living history. Museum admission included with ship ticket. Museum has great exhibits - informative and beautifully displayed. Good interaction for young visitors. Highly recommend!!

We came from Montreal just for the Keewatin. We did the passenger experience tour. We loved the tour so much, we couldn’t get enough. We should have bought tickets for the engine room. Guess we will have to come back! The exhibits were beautifully staged with attention to detail and accuracy. Our tour guides went above and beyond both during the tour and afterwards.

I had a friend visiting from out of town and decided to purchase a couple of premium tickets to tour the Keewatin as a form of entertainment. We visited the museum and took in the sights before heading out on a 90 minute guided tour. We were not disappointed. We learned a great deal about history and in particular this Cruise Ship built in Scotland in 1907. Our tour escort was friendly, well informed and we had a chance to inspect and learn about the upper levels of the ship. Museum staff were also friendly and helpful. All in all it was a great experience and one we would recommend to anyone with an interest in early transportation, history and Canadiana. Parking was just outside the Museum and free.

An amazing piece of history! The tour was wonderful with comfortable headsets ensuring all could hear the guide. It is a very fortunate series of events that saved this vessel, and we were lucky to tour it. Even in a state of repair and restoration we could feel the comfort and clever design. These were luxury on the Great Lakes. I highly recommend this tour. Get the 1 hour and 15 minute full deal. It flies by!

The museum is great. However the Keewatin experience was great! I took the Engine Room tour with Fatema. I also took the 1:25 minute tour guided tour with Mya. Both very knowledgeable and humorous. It was the right balance to keep the groups attention. Well done.

The museum has a large amount of information and we enjoyed it. Particularly the water end of the museum has an amazing display around the antique dry dock operation including the pump out station which is located subterrain. You get to view this and walk around the pump pit. Definitely worthwhile the visit. We enjoyed this museum as part of the k-pass.

My partner went on the engine tour with Josh, our wonderful tour guide. Everything was so interesting to learn about, the coal runners, the fire watch, the engineers, all amazing. It was cleaner than expected, even for the restoration being incomplete.