Pier 39 Heritage Museum
The old cannery on Pier 39, built in 1875, was home to Bumble Bee Seafoods and one of the town’s major employers. Today, this cannery is the oldest building on the waterfront—in fact, it’s the oldest cannery building in the world—and inside you’ll find the fascinating, little-visited and oddly moving Heritage Museum. It’s filled with old canning equipment, historic photos, and film clips showing how the cannery operated from the late 19th century until it closed. It’s maintained by volunteers and there is absolutely nothing gimmicky or fancy about it; that is what gives it its haunting slice-of-bygone-life quality. At the end of the pier, in the same building, you can have a coffee and pastry at Coffee Girl. Sea lions often congregate on the breakwater right outside.
The old cannery on Pier 39, built in 1875, was home to Bumble Bee Seafoods and one of the town’s major employers. Today, this cannery is the oldest building on the waterfront—in fact, it’s the oldest cannery building in the world—and inside you’ll find the fascinating, little-visited and oddly moving Heritage Museum. It’s filled with old canning equipment, historic photos, and film clips showing how the cannery operated from the late 19th century until it closed. It’s maintained by volunteers and there is absolutely nothing gimmicky or fancy about it; that is what gives it its haunting slice-of-bygone-life quality. At the end of the pier, in the same building, you can have a coffee and pastry at Coffee Girl. Sea lions often congregate on the breakwater right outside.
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