Erie Maritime Museum

Additionally, once inside, guests are able to view a General Electric steam-powered generator and the station's original crane, which still works today.

The museum offers a wide range of multimedia and interactive exhibits coupled with interpretive programs that illustrate the region's maritime heritage.

The replicated Lawrence, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's first flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie, comes complete with mast, spars and rigging to foster hands-on learning in the ways of sail handling.

Another display is the adjoining section of the Lawrence' replica that has been blasted with live ammunition from the current Niagara's own carronades at the National Guard training facility in Fort Indiantown Gap, near Harrisburg.

This "live fire" exhibit of Lawrence recreates the carnage inflicted upon both ships and men during the Battle of Lake Erie and throughout the Age of Fighting Sail.

[7] Fighting Sail presents a life size upper-portion of a working mast taken directly from the current iteration of Niagara shortly after the Museum's opening in May 1998.

This exhibit focuses on the construction of wooden sailing vessels, shipboard life, 19th Century Navy medicine, a gun deck recreation from Lawrence, shipbuilding tools, knots, and more.

The Live Fire section of the brig Lawrence illustrates damage from various types of 19th-century naval artillery
Located on the main floor, this exhibit depicts the gun deck of the brig Lawrence .