Recent Media
Press Releases:
October 28, 2020 – DCMM Selects Exhibit General Contractor
July 29, 2020 – Grant Helps To Build Maritime Lighthouse Tower Exhibit
June 29, 2020 – Maritime Lighthouse Tower Topping Off
October 31, 2019 – Maritime Lighthouse Tower Groundbreaking Announced
October 24, 2019 – The Boldt Company to Build Maritime Lighthouse Tower
October 18, 2019 – Capital Campaign Receives $1 Million Gift
The Jim Kress Maritime Lighthouse Tower expansion of the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay has generated a great deal of news media coverage.
January 12, 2021 – Midwest Living: “What’s New in the Midwest 2021”
November 15, 2020 visit from WFRV Local 5 Live, with views from the top of the Tower.
November 4, 2020 story from Fox 11 about the Maritime Lighthouse Tower exhibits.
November 4, 2020 story from WFRV about Southern Custom Exhibits.
July 2, 2020 Lighthouse beacon room moved into place (Fox 11)
November 13, 2019 – DCMM Breaks Ground on Maritime Lighthouse Tower (Fox 11)
A brief video on the journey of the recreated Fresnel lens that hangs in the Beacon Room on the Baumgartner Observation level of the Tower.
Drone video of the July 2nd, 2020 Topping Off event with the raising of the Beacon Room structure to the top of the Tower.
Tower construction time-lapse video.
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