Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum, Maritime museum in Samoa, California, United States.

The Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum occupies the former head cook's house beside the Samoa Cookhouse in Samoa, across Humboldt Bay from Eureka. Its artifacts, photographs and library archives concern the maritime history of California's North Coast, and its collection is anchored by the excursion boat MV Madaket, a 1910 ferry built on Humboldt Bay.

The museum was founded in 1977 and occupies a historic house that once belonged to the head cook of the nearby Samoa Cookhouse. This location links maritime history with the everyday lives of people who worked and lived on the coast.

The museum's centrepiece, the MV Madaket, was christened the "Nellie C" after a member of the Cousins family that built her in 1910 on Humboldt Bay. She carried Eureka's mill workers to lumber operations across the bay, calling at Table Bluff, Fields Landing, Eureka, Samoa and Arcata until 1972. Rebuilt, she now offers narrated cruises of the port and city, and her onboard tavern is the smallest licensed bar in California.

The museum occupies the former head cook's house beside the Samoa Cookhouse, across Humboldt Bay from Eureka. Its compact rooms hold artifacts, photographs and library archives on North Coast maritime history. The MV Madaket, its 1910 ferry, offers decks to view Eureka and the port, plus an onboard tavern.

The museum operates the MV Madaket, a vessel built in 1910 that remains the oldest passenger ship still in active service in the United States. You can visit this ship and experience firsthand what passenger travel was like in that era.