Museum Type: Museum

The museum has 33,000 artifacts, including the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world. Other exhibits include a WW II midget submarine, working periscopes, a submarine control room, models of submarines, and the Explorer, an early research submarine.

The U.S. Naval Undersea Museum holds the country’s most comprehensive collection of U.S. Navy artifacts, documents, and reference material related to undersea subjects, and is renowned for several of these specialty collections, especially those in torpedoes, mines, diving and salvage, submarine technology, and unmanned underwater vehicles.

The National Naval Aviation Museum is the world’s largest Naval Aviation museum, with more than 150 beautifully restored aircraft representing Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.

National Museum of the American Sailor’s mission is to select, collect, preserve, and interpret the history of the United States Navy with particular emphasis on the Navy’s enlisted sailor.

The flagship museum of the United States Navy, located in the former Breech Mechanism Shop of the old Naval Gun Factory on the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.

Houses the wreck of the War of Independence gunboat ‘Philadelphia’. The permanent exhibit “One the Water” traces American maritime history. Items featured include rigged ship models, patent models, documents, and images from the Smithsonian’s National Watercraft Collection.

Preserving the heritage of the watermen of the Chesapeake Bay

A museum full of fantastic ship models displayed on the steam ferry Berkely. Also: full-rigged ship Star of India, replica 1847 revenue cutter Californian (C.W. Lawrence), replica 16th-century ship San Salvador, replica 18th-century 24-gun frigate Surprise, Soviet sub B-39, deep sea sub USS Dolphin, steam yacht Medea, swift boat PCF-816.

A local museum focused on the Chesapeake Bay. In addition to the indoor exhibits, the museum operates the buy boat Elva C, the skipjack Claud W. Somers, and a replica barge from 1608. There is a boat shop for new constructions and restorations.

A museum focused on the port of Yokohama and a former sail training ship.