Maritime and Naval Museums: District of Columbia

Washington

Naval Memorial Museum

Washington Navy Yard,
Building 76,
901 M Street, SE,
Washington, DC 20374-5060.

Telephone: +1 202 433 4882
Telefax: +1 Fax 202 433 8200
WWW: http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg8.htm

Opening hours: Monday - Friday 09:00-16:00; Memorial Day through Labor Day, Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00; Weekends and Holidays, 10:00-17:00; Closed: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Years's Day.

Museum ships:

USS Barry (1956), destroyer DD 953.
USS The Intelligent Whale (1864), submarine.
Kaiten (1944-45), Japanese midget submarine.

United States Marine Corps Museum

Washington Navy Yard.

On same grounds as the Naval Memorial Museum.

The Smithsonian Institution

Constitution Ave. at 12th St.
Washington, DC.

Telephone: +1 202 357 2025

Philadelphia (1776), sailing gunboat. The well preserved remains of first warship built in what would become the United States of America are displayed in the Hall of Armed Forces History[?]. The gunboat Philadelphia was operated by Army, as Navy was not yet formed at that date. Salvaged from the bottom of Lake Champlain by Lorenzo Hagglund in 1934 and 1935.

Ship models are on display in the Hall of American Maritime Enterprise, the Technology building and the Air and Space Museum.

Updated 1997-07-20 by Lars Bruzelius

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