Museum visitors can stand just feet away from the ironclad’s unique screw propeller, anchor, and the construction site for the $30 million USS Monitor Center.
See how Conservators use low-voltage electrical current and an alkaline bath to reverse the effects of sea water on submerged iron.
Expeditions to theMonitor have yielded an amazing variety of artifacts. In 2001 alone, more than 250 artifacts arrived at The Mariners' Museum to be conserved and prepared for exhibition at The Monitor Center.
Each Month, we choose a new artifact to showcase. We'll tell you a little about it's history, it's creation and how it was used on the USS Monitor .
Check out these Experiments and see for yourself how the Conservators at the Mariners' Museum are able to recover and recondition artifacts covered in almost a century and a half of corrosion and elemental deterioration.
Marking the 145th anniversary of the historic clash between the Civil War ironclads, The Mariners' Museum and its partner NOAA will open the doors to one of the premier Civil War attractions across the nation - the USS Monitor Center.
For more than a century, the Monitor's resting place in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic " remained a mystery, despite numerous searches. Until, that is, a team of scientists from Duke University made a historic discovery.
On January 30, 1975 the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary was created. This was the nations first national marine sanctuary and is located on the eastern continental shelf 16.1 miles off Cape Hatteras .
