At 200 Greene Street, the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum waits for you in Key West. Inside this museum are extensive collections salvaged from 17th-century shipwrecks — the Henrietta Marie, Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Santa Margarita — and from other famous wrecks: The Santa Clara, a Conquistador-era galleon (1564), The Guerrero and Nimble. The place is simultaneously a museum, a lab, and a nationally recognized research facility, named for founder Mel Fisher and created as a 501(c)3 non-profit charity, so Fisher's fortune is not financially linked to the museum.
On the second floor a rotating gallery is currently displaying an exhibit of artifacts belonging to Cuban Rafters, or Balseros, who arrive in hand-crafted vessels to Key West. Terrestrial archaeology is represented here too: the museum includes material connected to The African Cemetery of Key West, located on Higgs Beach. A fully operating Conservation and Archaeology lab sits within these walls; guests may join a daily private Lab Tour, touch certain artifacts, and learn about the stages of artifact conservation.
Picture the second-floor gallery above, and Greene Street stretching out beyond the museum.