National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History

National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History
Established 2001
Location 201 S. Market St.
Sadorus, Illinois
Coordinates 39°58′01″N 88°20′39″W / 39.966872°N 88.344187°W / 39.966872; -88.344187
Type Maritime museum
Director Charles 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]

Recent exhibits include a 27 feet 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 am-4:30pm) Saturdays from April 1 to Nov. 30; also by appointment (including through the winter holidays).[2]

In the press

The museum was featured in a 2005 Chicago Tribune cover story.

References

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


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