| The Mariners' Museum 4/28/06
On Friday, 4/28/06, I visited the Mariners' Museum. This museum is jam-packed with all kinds of nautical based exhibits. The Library at the Mariners' Museum has thousands of books for the researcher.
I went to the Museum on this occasion because I participate in the Photo Friday Challenge, and today's topic was "Famous." So I went to the Museum in the hopes of taking a photo or two of the Monitor's turret. However, I ended up taking photos of other things instead (the turret, last time I was here, was outdoors in a vast tank being treated in a special solution, but it was not where it used to be!)
The original entrance to the Museum is currently closed, as they're building a new entrance to go with the new Monitor Center. However, when people used to enter through these doors, this gigantic figurehead was the first thing they'd see.
If you entered via the 'old' entrance, you'd turn to your left and there was an exhibit on the Virginia boatmen. Walk past the Fresnel lens, which rotates just as if it were in a lighthouse. Then the exhibit starts with Virginia pre-history, the Native Americans, immigrants from Europe, then the pirates, such as Blackbeard, then closer to today with the Virginia watermen.
This photo isn't in focus, I know. I'll return to the Mariners' Museum
next Friday and get a better shot.
On Fridays, Joe Filipowski comes into the museum and works on his model boats. At 2.30 pm he goes into the theater and gives a talk on the sea. I'll be attending his talk next week.
One of the main claims to fame for Hampton Roads is that it was the site of the historic battle between the U.S.S. Monitor vs the C.S.S. Virginia (or Merrimac). The Monitor's turret was raised from its graveyard in the North Atlantic in 2002 and brought here, and last year construction started on the Monitor Center. External site: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02monitor/monitor.html
A model of the new Monitor Center, which will have a full-size mockup of the Monitor.
Another view.
A History of the Beach. This exhibit was closed and being torn down.
I wouldn't have minded appropriating this gigantic wave for my own house
but had no way to transport it, more's the pity.
THE SIGN IN FRONT of it is advertising the next exhibit, one about Pirates. Looks like Pirates of the Caribbean has started a trend!
A figurehead. Can't remember who this represents - will repair the omission once I return next week..
A Napolean figurehead in the "The Nelson Touch" exhibit, a touring exhibit which is currently at the Mariners' Musueum.
The Titanic exhibit.
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