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  • Flag Retirement Ceremony, note “date change!”

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    Twice  a year we hold a flag retirement ceremony. You are welcome to drop off you flags at the Museum anytime before the next event!

  • Museum Store Sunday!

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    NOVEMBER 28, 2021  #MUSEUMSTORESUNDAY The USS Silversides Submarine Museum, along with over 1,400 other museums from around the world, will be participating in Museum Store Sunday which will take place November 28th. We invite you to "Be A Patron" by purchasing quality gifts for you and your family and friends. By doing so, you will […]

  • Giving Tuesday November 30th!

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    If you've been here before or just want to support our mission to honor the men and women who have served and are serving our country and would like to donate. https://silversidesmuseum.org/product-category/donations/ Thank you!

  • 80th year celebration of the commissioning of the USS Silversides 236

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    Please join us on December 15th 2021 at 3pm for as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the commissioning the USS Silversides 236. She was the first US Submarine commission after Pearl Harbor. There will be a ceremony at 3pm and we will be starting 2 of her 80 year old engines. Tickets for the […]

  • The Silversides Spring Lecture series

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    The Silversides Spring Lecture series begins!   February 21, 2022- Ron Janowski The Road to WWII World War II, a worldwide event that changed humanity forever. Tonight’s lecture will discuss […]

  • March 21. 2022 Fred Johnson- China Burma India

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    China‐Burma‐India Theater (1941–45). The China‐Burma‐India (CBI) theater has been dubbed “the forgotten theater” of World War II. Once the United States entered the war, American strategy called for building up China as a source of manpower, as a base for bombers and the eventual invasion of Japan, and as a pro‐American regional power in the postwar era. It became the stuff […]

  • A true story of Survival in Japanese occupied waters during WWII.

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    Director Peggy Maniates brings you an incredible true story of courage and perseverance.   In August of 1944, a submarine sets out on a war patrol in Japanese occupied Water. […]

  • March 14, 2022, Fred Johnson – Doolittle and the USS Hornet

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    The early days of WWII in the Pacific brought bad news every day. America needed a win and quickly. In walks, James Harold “Jimmy” Doolittle (1896-1993) was a pioneering pilot, aeronautical […]

  • March 21. 2022 Fred Johnson- China Burma India

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    China-Burma-India Theater (1941–45). The China‐Burma‐India (CBI) theater has been dubbed “the forgotten theater” of World War II. Once the United States entered the war, American strategy called for building up China as […]

  • MARCH 28, 2022 The USS Silversides the boat, the men, and the war.

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    Come and listen to USS Silversides staff members Don Kitchen and Teresa Folkmier-Troutman discuss the Pacific war years of our venerated and decorated war veteran and her valiant crew. Don and Teresa will talk about the boat itself, the official version of how the Silversides was so successfully utilized during the war, and stories from […]

  • April 4th 2022 John Heaton – The Little Known History of World War II in Alaska

    Silversides Museum USS Silversides Museum, 1346 Bluff St, Muskegon, MI, United States

    Lecturer will be off site and zoom into theater. A lecture dedicated to the people of Alaska, who fought bravely in WWII Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese bombed the U.S. Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Fort Mears, near Unalaska Island and occupied the Aleutian islands of Attu […]