Destin History & Fishing Museum

The Destin History & Fishing Museum is a 501 C-3 Non-Profit run by a Board of Directors opening to the public October 1, 2005. The museum is a tourist destination and key historical repository for the Destin area. The exhibits present the history of Destin and journey from a small fishing village to a major tourist attraction.

The museum includes: exhibits in the outdoor Museum Historic Park Complex including the historic seine boat "Primrose", mullet boat "Lil Jimmy", seine net reel, and the original Old Post Office as well as the "Footprints in the Sand" memorial walkway, over 75 mounts of locally caught fish, historic photographs, artifacts, fishing equipment and documents of early Destin and the Fishing industry, historic and genealogical data on the founding families and those that shaped the growth of early Destin.