18335 N. Whitefish Point Road
Paradise, MI , 49768

Phone: 888-492-3747

Website

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at the Whitefish Point Light Station 11 miles north of Paradise in Chippewa County. The museum exhibits artifacts from shipwrecks from the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve and the bell from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Admission to the museum includes a tour of historic buildings with displays that interpret the Great Lakes maritime, United States Coast Guard, and US Life-Saving Service history.

Both machines are located in the gift shop not the museum, a separate building.

Machine 2: 4 designs: Designs cost $1 each (Cash only) and is preloaded with pennies:
1) Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society,
2) Whitefish Point Light Station Michigan 1849,
3) Edmund Fitzgerald 1958-1975 Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum,
4) US CG 36381 Motor Lifeboat Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.

Machine 1: Costs 51 Cents, your penny:
1) 'Whitefish Point Light station', / Rear- 'Built in 1840, Oldest Active Light,on Lake Superior',

The museum closes for the season in late October.

6/7/25 Both machines are running.
One is inside the gift shop.
The other is outside the bathrooms. 6/26/25 Machine 2 will only accept bills, the credit card option does not function.
The pennies it dispenses could be anything, maybe copper, maybe copper plated zinc, maybe even Canadian.