Museums

• The Mariners Museum at Hampton Roads has an impressive collection of information about all aspects of maritime activity. It has artifacts from both the Virginia and the Monitor. In fact, it will receive all the artifacts collected from the Monitor.
• The Museum of the Confederacy
  This museum in Richmond, VA, has the drive shaft and anchor of the CSS Virginia. Also, for researchers, has a good deal of material in their archives.
• The Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk is a U.S. Navy-operated museum covering the many important naval events that occurred in and around Hampton Roads, Virginia. They have a number of well designed exhibits including the bell of the CSS Virginia. The library contains old and new books related to the area. (More info from the Nautical Research Guild)
• Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum
  This is where the Merrimack was converted into the Virginia. Has information on the dry dock and material about the Virginia. Portsmouth, VA. Their gift store has several books on the Virginia that are hard to find elsewhere.
• Casemate Museum at Fort Monroe doesn't have much on the net but does have material on the Virginia and the Monitor.
• Port Columbus Civil War Naval Center(formerly Confederate Naval Museum)
  Catesby ap Roger Jones's uniform is on display in Columbus, GA. The (burned-out) hull of the C.S.S. Chattahoochee, commanded by Jones is there. Also has the hull of the C.S.S. Jackson, an Ironclad, beautifully displayed. Other museums (see also the historic shipyards)also have Confederate ships. Another ironclad, C.S.S. Neuse is preserved at Kingston, NC. The Cairo, an Ironclad riverboat, is at Vicksburg National Mark, MS. The location of the C.S.S. Georgia is also known.
• United States Naval & Shipbuilding Museum. A museum that also has an online museum.
• Haze Gray and Underway A site for naval history and photography. They are compiling an online version of the Dictionary of Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS). [The Naval Historical Center also has some of DANFS.]
• American Swedish Historical Museum. Museum in Philadelphia with two galleries devoted to John Ericsson. One has a large mural of a fabled scene in which Ericsson explains his invention of the Monitor to Lincoln and his War Cabinet. Another shows the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac. It has the largest collection of John Ericsson's personal writings and drawings, including original drawings of the Monitor and models of several of his other inventions, including solar powered engines. Unfortunately they don't have much on the web yet.
• Virginia War Museum in Hampton. It isn't clear whether they have much on the Monitor and Virginia but they have a good bit on the Peninsula Campaign. They maintain a web site on the Peninsula Campaign that has accurate descriptions of the March 8 & 9 battles and Druary's Bluff battle.
• Civil War Soldiers Museum. This private Pensacola museum has some contributions from Stephen Mallory.

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