The North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum is a museum in Tofte, Minnesota, dedicated to the history of the Scandinavian immigrants and communities of the North Shore region of Lake Superior, and especially their importance to the national commercial fishing industry of the 1880s to 1940s. It is Minnesota's first museum dedicated to commercial fishing.
Exhibits at the museum include a typical Norwegian-style fishing boat
Exhibits at the museum including the bell of the steamship America, on right
North Shore (Lake Superior)
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The North Shore of Lake Superior runs from Duluth, Minnesota, United States, at the western end of the lake, to Thunder Bay and Nipigon, Ontario, Canada, in the north, to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in the east. The shore is characterized by alternating rocky cliffs and cobblestone beaches, with forested hills and ridges through which scenic rivers and waterfalls descend as they flow to Lake Superior.
Split Rock Lighthouse on the North Shore of Lake Superior in a Minnesota state park nine miles southwest of Silver Bay.
Winter along the North Shore
Ojibwe Wigwam at Grand Portage painted by Eastman Johnson in 1857
Pierre-Esprit Radisson