Nauticus Museum & Battleship Wisconsin - Norfolk, VA

On Tuesday Oct 3rd we visited the museum Nauticus and toured the Battleship Wisconsin.

 

Nauticus is a maritime-themed museum and science center aka National Maritime Center. There were two 3-D movies. One was Secret Ocean by Jean Claude Cousteau and and the other one was Aircraft Carrier. There were several rooms with films that were on loops. Tons of displays and the second floor was a Navy Museum. There were many interactive areas including touching sharks and other scheduled activities most of which we passed on. (with the timing of 3-D movies etc., it's impossible to do it all. 

Greg  

We had a nice lunch in the café there before going out to tour the Wisconsin. In LA when the Pacific Princess got stranded there an extra day on the World Cruise due to bad weather we visited the Battleship Iowa. It was cold, windy and rainy so we enjoyed our visit to the Wisconsin today much better. They also had way more areas open to the public to just walk around. The Wisconsin is an Iowa-class Battleship. (one of the largest Battleships ever built) They truly are like a small city on board. (much like a cruise ship)

 views from the Wisconsin

"wishing well"

After touring the Wisconsin we went to the second floor to visit the Navy Museum. It was an extensive museum of the Navy's history over the years.

Greg's job in the Navy

We spent most of the day there and stopped at the same Gelato shop on the drive home.

Tomorrow, we head out to Fayetteville, NC.