TowerCAM 

VIEW OUR TOWERCAM!
This year-round display shows views of the Virginia Beach coastline and area surrounding the OCGS museum.

Visitors to the museum can operate this high powered surveillance camera in the museum's upper gallery.

New Arrivals at the Museum Store

We have just received a shipment of fantastic hand-crafted wooden games and puzzles from Creative Crafthouse.  Also just arrived:  beautiful bamboo handled floral beach handbags from Bagulous.  Coming in April:  SallyeAnder Soaps, hand-made in the USA!

Fresh roasted Fair Trade Certified Organic Coffees are here!

Choose from our selection of whole bean and ground coffees from First Colony Coffee and Tea including Lighthouse Blend, Chesapeake Bay Blend, Breakfast Blend, Guatemalan Sunset and Green Frog Rainforest Whole Bean.

We also carry Lifeboat Tea (loose and bags), P & G Tips, Foojoy Organic Bai Mudan White Tea and a variety of tea brewing essentials. Start your day with a great cup of coffee or tea!

Welcome

Current Exhibit
BEACH ART PARTNERS

The Old Coast Guard Station is proud to feature student art from our

Partner in Education school W. T. Cooke Elementary.

Through April 13, 2008.  Museum Lower Gallery.

About Us

The Old Coast Guard Station honors and preserves the history of Virginia’s coastal communities and maritime heritage. 

The scope of the Station’s exhibits begins with the Virginia Beach Community and extends to subjects related to Virginia’s oceanfront, coastal and water related heritage. The museum's two galleries depict the history of theUnited States Life-Saving and Coast Guard Services and shipwrecks on the Virginia Coast.

The Old Coast Guard Station is housed in the most important artifact in the museum’s collection:  the 1903 Life-Saving Station. 

It houses a collection of 1,800 artifacts and over 1,000 photographic images of the United States Life-Saving and Coast Guard Services, and the resort community of Virginia Beach.  There is also an on-site research library containing books, papers and oral histories. The museum overlooks the Atlantic Ocean along the Boardwalk at 24th Street within the popular resort city of Virginia Beach, Virginia.  This historic Life-Saving/Coast Guard Station is a Virginia Historic Landmark also on the National Register of Historic Places.