Kingston Marine Museum/Kingston Dry Dock, Maritime museum in Kingston, Canada

The Great Lakes Museum, formerly the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, occupies the 1892 Kingston Dry Dock at 55 Ontario Street, a National Historic Site. The site holds a limestone main building of 1891 housing the dry dock pumps and engines, an annex added in 1915 and a smaller building from 1938. Its square stone chimney rises 27 metres above the downtown waterfront. Seven galleries include the Donald Page, Shipwreck, Calvin, Eco and Pump Room galleries.

The dry dock structure was built in the 1890s as a shipyard facility for repairing vessels on the Great Lakes. During World War II, it was adapted to construct military ships, reflecting the facility's importance to Canada's wartime effort.

The Calvin Gallery covers Garden Island, where the Calvin family ran a shipbuilding and logging business that once employed 700 workers. The museum's journal FreshWater and its Jib Gems newsletter publish local marine history, and its archives are maintained with help from Queen's University.

The museum occupies the 1892 limestone dry dock at 55 Ontario Street, on Kingston's downtown waterfront; the square stone chimney rises 27 metres above the site. The galleries closed after the 2016 sale of the property and the collections went into storage, so check the current opening status before travelling. The dry dock was lengthened to 115.2 metres in concrete after 1910.

The dry dock's square stone chimney rises 27 metres above the downtown waterfront, taller than the surrounding streetscape. The Pump Room's pumps and engines drained the dock and moved its caisson gate. The museum also photographed shipwrecks at risk of being hidden by zebra mussels that infested the Great Lakes in the 1990s.