📅🚢 A Guide to the Washington Navy Museum, Open One Day a Week

Last weekend, I visited the National Museum of the United States Navy, which is only open for six hours on Saturdays from 10 AM to 4 PM. This schedule is not only unique in the DMV area but probably across the entire North American continent. The reason for this is that the museum is undergoing renovations and is planning to relocate from the military restricted area by 2025. 🔍 If you’re planning to visit during this period, theoretically, you need to make a reservation on their website and then call the museum staff to pick you up at the military camp entrance. In practice, it’s also possible to visit without a reservation by calling directly at the camp entrance with a valid ID! Note that the camp has multiple entrances, but on Saturdays, you can only enter through the following entrance: 🗺️ Located on the side of a highway, you can see the Anacostia River. The museum’s phone number can be found on their official website. Generally, staff come out to pick up visitors every 30 minutes. Once inside the camp, it’s a 5-minute walk to the museum. To prevent unauthorized personnel in the camp, you need to notify the staff to escort you out when leaving the museum. 🚧 Although there are many procedures to follow at this museum, and the World War I exhibit is partially obscured due to the relocation, as a ship model enthusiast, seeing the large collection of wooden sailing ship models was incredibly exciting! Personally, I found the following exhibits interesting: the model of the USS Vermont, one of the few sail-powered battleships built by the US Navy during the age of sail; 🌸 The training version of the “Cherry Blossom” manned missile used by the Kamikaze squadrons; the “Alvin” submersible used in the search for the Titanic; the “Trieste” submarine, which was the first to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench with a human crew, and a section of the USS Constitution’s hull that was removed during a major overhaul. #WashingtonDCMuseums #DMV #Museum