Thank you for stopping by. A favorite spot to just hang out with a cup of joe and people watch. Aquatic Park was built as part of the FDR's Works Progress Administration Project. The Living New Deal Project is working to document the various New Deal projects around San Francisco and California. It houses the San Francisco Maritime Museum in a Streamline Moderne (late Art Deco) building built as a public bathhouse. The building was originally built (starting in 1936) by the WPA as a public bathhouse, and its interior is decorated with fantastic and colorful murals. The Steamship Room illustrates the technological evolution of maritime power from wind to steam, while the second floor displays include three photomurals of the early San Francisco waterfront, lithographic stones, scrimshaw and whaling guns. The third floor gallery is used for visiting exhibitions and in 2005 exhibited "Sparks", an exhibition of shipboard radio, radiotelephone, and radioteletype technology.