Lake Champlain Maritime museum

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The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is non-profit museum in Basin Harbor, Vermont with a mission to study, preserve and share the history and archaeology of Lake Champlain.

LCMM built a replica of Benedict Arnold's gunboat Philadelphia. The Philadelphia II, launched in 1991, serves as a focal point for educational programs, and to interpret the Revolutionary War fleet on Lake Champlain. LCMM and the Lake Champlain Transportation Company constructed a 88-foot replica canal schooner, the Lois McClure, launched in July 2004. Its design was based on the General Butler, a schooner wrecked in Burlington Harbor December 9, 1876.

LCMM is also known for the Nautical Archaeology Center and Conservation Laboratory at Basin Harbor, Vermont where visitors may learn how artifacts recovered from Lake Champlain are stabilized for study and exhibited through the conservation process.

The Captain White House, a ca. 1815 ship's captain's home in Burlington, was acquired by the LCMM and renovated in 2002; it now serves as a maritime education center.