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| In 1987, The Mariners Museum was designated as
the repository for artifacts and archives from the
Civil War ironclad USS Monitor by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on
behalf of the federal government. Today, the Museum
conserves, interprets and exhibits hundreds of relics
from the U.S. Navy's first ironclad vessel. Visitors
to the Museum can see these artifacts undergoing
the arduous conservation process, while learning
the history and stories behind them. What you see
now, is the Monitor's revolutionary gun
turret, which was recovered by the U.S. Navy, NOAA
and The Mariners' Museum on August 5, 2002. It will
spend at least 15 years being conserved. |
