User:Dschwen/National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History
Appearance
Established | 2001 |
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Location | 201 S. Market St. Sadorus, Illinois |
Coordinates | 39°58′01″N 88°20′39″W / 39.966872°N 88.344187°W |
Type | Maritime museum |
Director | Charles Lozar |
Website | [http://www.lincolnshireprop.com/museum/introduction.html National Museum of Ship Models
and Sea History] |
The National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History is a private non-profit museum, located in Sadorus, Illinois.
Recent exhibits include a 27 feet model of the RMS Queen Mary made entirely out of one million toothpicks. Ship models from the movies Tora Tora Tora, Cleopatra, and Ben Hur as well as the television series Tugboat Annie Sails Again.
The museum is open on saturdays (10am - 4pm) and by appointment.
In the press
[edit]The museum was featured in a 2005 Chicago Tribune cover story.