National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History

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National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History
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National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History
Established2001
Location201 S. Market St.
Sadorus, Illinois
Coordinates 39°58′01″N88°20′39″W / 39.966872°N 88.344187°W / 39.966872; -88.344187
TypeMaritime museum
DirectorCharles Lozar
Website 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. It features ship models from around the world and throughout history. [1]

Contents

Recent exhibits include a 27-foot model of the RMS Queen Mary made entirely out of one million toothpicks. The collection includes ship models from the movies Tora! Tora! Tora! , Cleopatra , and Ben-Hur as well as from the television series Tugboat Annie Sails Again.

The museum is open on Saturdays (11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) Saturdays from April 1 to November 30; also by appointment, including through the winter holidays. [2]

In the press

The museum was featured in a 2005 Chicago Tribune cover story.[ citation needed ]

Further reading

Reid, Tony. “Sadorus Man and the Sea.” Herald & Review (Decatur, IL), 10 May 2010. Accessed through EBSCOhost. Retrieved 21 June 2019.

References

  1. ↑ "National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Sadorus museum crammed full of maritime history with models, texts, much more". News Gazette. Retrieved December 22, 2016.


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