The Mariners' Museum and Park
Specialty Museum · Newport News, Virginia
One of the largest maritime museums in the world, founded in 1930 at Newport News and set in five hundred and fifty acres of woodland around a lake. Its centrepiece is the USS Monitor Center, which holds what was raised from the wreck of the ironclad off Cape Hatteras between 1998 and 2002 — including the gun turret itself, still submerged in a treatment tank in an active conservation project expected to run for decades.
100 Museum Drive, Newport News, Virginia, 23606, United States
Museum generally 9 AM - 5 PM, with some Monday and Tuesday closures depending on season — check before travelling. The park and the Noland Trail are open daily, dawn to dusk, and are free.
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