The Navy Museum collects, preserves, displays and interprets
historic naval artifacts and artwork to inform, educate and inspire
naval personnel and the general public.
Exhibits & Programs:
"Key to Liberty": The Revolutionary War in the Champlain
Valley
Visions of Infamy: Remembering Pearl Harbor
Decommissioned destroyer Barry
Civil War 100 pounder cannon from CSS Atlanta captured by the U.S.
monitor Weehawken
6 in. 30 calibre deck gun from U.S. battleship Maine sunk in Havana
Harbor 15 February 1898
36,000 lb. propeller from battleship USS South Dakota
14-inch naval railway gun, one of only eight built at the Washington
Navy Yard for use in Europe in World War I
Captured deck gun from German World War I destroyer G-102
Bathysphere from the Alvin undersea exploration vehicle
U.S. Navy Submarines Exhibit
Many more atifacts from wars
Hours of Operation:
Monday through Friday: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Closed weekends
Closed: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Years'
Day
Address:
Bdg 76
Washington Navy Yard
Washington DC 20374 - 0571
USA
