Outer Banks Beachcomber's Museum

Welcome to the 

 Outer Banks Beachcomber Museum 

Located on North Carolina's Outer Banks
in the heart of Old Nags Head.

 


Home of the

 Nellie Myrtle Collection 


For updates on visiting the museum, Go Here...

 

 


"I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,

To the gull's way and the whale's way 

Where the wind's like a whetted knife."


From ~ Sea Fever ~ By John Masefield 


"For most of her 74 years, Nellie Myrtle – as everyone called her – walked at dusk and dawn, day in and day out, along the oceanfront, the sound side and the dunes at Jockey’s Ridge, scouting for beach glass, bottles, old dolls, anything interesting that the sea tossed aside or the sands gave up. By the time she  died in 1992, she had amassed jar after jar of sea glass, sorted by color; seashells of every distinction; colorful plastic toys that fill a big basket; bottles of every color and size, some containing messages; and numerous nautical artifacts."

 Catherine Kozak ~ The Virginian Pilot ~ Norfolk Virginia


 



 

 Outer Banks Beachcomber Museum 

The Beachcomber Museum is located in 
Historic Mattie Midgette's Store  
just south of Jockeys Ridge in
 Old Nags Head. 

 





For current updates on openings of the 

Nellie Myrtle Beachcomber Museum,   Go Here...

 

Nellie Myrtle, circa 1943 







Before visiting the museum, we suggest 

reading about Nellie Myrtle's life here... 

to give you glimpse back in time to the era in which 

Nellie Myrtle lived out her extraordinary life.


You can also copy the PDF of her story below:

 

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             The Nellie Myrtle Collection 


 


Beach glass from the Collection:

A large piece of cobalt bonfire glass, a variety of blue beach glass, one stunning lavender chunk

and background cameos by green make this sunset array by Dorothy Hope a classic!

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 Scenes from 

The Nellie Myrtle Beachcomber Collection

Mattie Midgette's Store ~ Old Nags Head 


 



 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  The morning sun lights up some shelves in the museum. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 "Old School Outer Banks" 

 


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