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MARSH'S FREE
MUSEUM
409 S. Pacific Ave.
P.O. Box 820
Long Beach, WA 98631
Phone:
(360) 642-2188
Fax:
(360) 642-8177
For More Local Information, including maps to our store:
www.funbeach.com
MARSH'S FREE
MUSEUM
409 S. Pacific Ave.
P.O. Box 820
Long Beach, WA 98631
Phone:
(360) 642-2188
Fax:
(360) 642-8177
 If you went broke raising rutabagas is North Dakota, what would you do next? |
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| For the original founders of Marsh's Free Museum, it was moving to Washington and opening a candy shop and ice cream store. A few years later when the passenger liner Admiral Benson went aground in the fog near Cape Disappointment, the enterprising Wellington Marsh, Sr. sensed a business opportunity and hurriedly opened a temporary hamburger stand to feed the curious onlookers. It was a beginning that would have Marsh return to the Peninsula in 1935, after owning a tavern in Gray's River. Marsh's Free Museum was born. |
 Marsh's FREE Museum was originally known as Marsh's Seashell Factory and Antiques from 1937 to 1952. Founder W.W. Marsh standing in front. |
 Marsh's FREE Museum present building. Designed by Roy Toland and built in 1972 across the street from the original building. |
Originally across the street from its current location, Marsh's Free Museum soon became known as a place that might purchase that weird stuff found when cleaning out the attic, or in Uncle Albert's old trunk. |
| If you want to see a shrunken head (one of three authentic specimens on the West Coast), or a complete human skeleton (found in a closet here on the Coast), Marsh's is the place to visit. |
 This authentic shrunken head is from the Jivaro Indian Tribe on the Amazon River in South America. It is one of three known on the West Coast of the United States. |
 Mary Lou the Skeleton Purchased by Junior Marsh from an anonymous person of Aberdeen, Washington in the early 1970's. |
Although Jake The Alligator Man is the most heralded of the weird to wonderful oddities you will encounter at Marsh's Free Museum, there is much, much more. (Learn how Jake became a cult hero, join his fan club and check out his line of "Jake Wear" and "Gator Gear" at Jake's Place.) |
| How long has it been since you've gazed into the eyes of a Yak, a Lioness, a Seca, or a Russian Boar? And these are just a few of the hundreds of stuffed and mounted animals that adore the wall or watch from their posts in the rafters. |
 Two Headed Calf Born with 2 heads, 4 eyes, 3 ears. Plaster of paris was used in this taxidermy, telling us it is 100 to 125 years old. |
 Eight Legged Lamb This piece was purchased by W.W. Marsh, Sr., in the 1940's. It has 2 bodies, eight legs, 3 ears and 2 eyes. |
Known for America's largest collection of glass fishing floats, one as large as a beach ball, the Museum is also home to a world class collection of sea shells. And to impress this point, more than 1,000,000 free sea shells are given to visitors every year. |
| From the bizarre; a two headed calf or an eight legged lamb... ...to the old and unusual; mechanized antique gaming machines and peepshows, there is no end to the marvels one uncovers in every nook and cranny. |
 Estrella Fortune Telling Machine Do you have fame or fortune in your future? Stop in at Marsh's FREE Museum to find out! |
 (Left) Known as the Claw Crane, or Digger Machine, this piece of nostalgia was manufactured by the International Multiscope and Reel Company in 1920. (Right) 1937 World Series Baseball Machine. Some of the players included are DiMaggio, Gehrig, Dickey, Appling, Gerhinger, Dean. |
Where else can you watch a peep show, play baseball, have your fortune told, shop for antiques, stretch your imagination, even test your love quotient? |
| From petrified dinosaur dung to a 1940 "Wendell Wilkie for President" poster and a human tape worm in a bottle, if you haven't seen it at Marsh's, then, you haven't stayed long enough... |
 The View Machines are hand made and were purchased from Vern Raw, owner of the Seaside, Oregon Penny Arcade. |
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