The St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum includes a visitors' center with admissions, specialty tours, and a gift shop; exhibits on the restoration of the lighthouse tower and Keepers' House by the Junior Service League of St. Augustine; an Exploration Zone for children; maritime hammock trails that teach how keepers' families used local plants and animals; the Victorian light station with the St. Augustine Lighthouse, its eight landings, story panels, 219 steps, and views of St. Augustine and the Atlantic Ocean; the oil room and keepers' office with everyday objects and a 20-pound oil bucket; and the 1876 Keepers' House exhibits, including the Harn family, lighthouse keeping in the late 1800s, William Harn's Civil War service as a Union artillery captain, a shipwreck discovered offshore that tells of British East Florida at the end of the American Revolutionary War, and the Northeast Florida shrimping industry. The site also includes the keepers' front lawn with a memorial bell dedicated to U.S. Coast Guardsmen lost in a 1990 helicopter accident and to Steve Senecal, the Maritime Heritage Park with volunteer-built wooden watercraft using regional historical designs and techniques, a World War Two-era garage about St. Augustine during World War Two and the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center, a World War Two-themed eatery, a 1940s U.S. Coast Guard barracks used after lighthouse operations were taken over in 1939, a maritime center presenting lighthouse stories from 1737 to 1955, and an artifact conservation lab where shipwreck artifacts can be viewed during conservation.
