Learn About The City’s Beginnings At Destin History & Fishing Museum

Settled at the foot of Destin Bridge, Destin History & Fishing Museum is a unique site we recommend to learn more about the background of Destin.

The museum preserves and shares the history of what once was a small fishing village in the 1830s. It homes an impressive collection of antique fishing rods and reels, one of which is the original Penn Reel of the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway.

You can also find the oldest preserved seine fishing boat, The Primrose, which was constructed in 1925. Explore vintage photographs of a time before electricity was invented, of captains and early Destin settlers.