New Navy Museum?

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Inside look at the U.S. Navy's huge warehouse of hidden treasures for display at new museum

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The Washington Post
A model battleship moves on wheels as Navy plans new flagship museum
Story by Michael Ruane
3h ago

As the model moved through the museum one day last month, it passed big guns shrouded in plastic tarps, art works under protective covers, and other ship models being readied for relocation. The service announced two years ago that it wanted to build the new museum on a roughly six-acre plot on M street next-door to the Navy Yard. Now, the site has been secured via a land swap with a developer, pending environmental review, the Navy says. The Navy would exchange 15 acres of "underutilized" land in the southeastern part of the yard for the new museum site. The current museum opened in 1963. Because it is within the Navy Yard, it has been closed periodically for security reasons in recent years and could be difficult to visit. In November, the Navy closed the main part of the old museum on weekdays, admitting visitors only on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A secondary building has been closed permanently. The new museum will be outside the yard and will offer full public access, said retired Rear Adm. Samuel J. Cox, the director the Naval History and Heritage Command.

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