Mare Island Museum
Mare Island Museum
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928BonnieC
Sacramento, Californië741 bijdragen
sep. 2023 • Vrienden
The museum hours are curtailed—but more spectacular is St Peters Chapel. Tours on Tuesdays & Saturdays at 10. 25 Tiffany windows in the oldest naval chapel in US! Built in 1901 with windows donated. Imagine— Tiffany had a catalog to choose windows! Sadly, visits inside Admirals Mansion & museum discontinued, but Chapel & grounds tours
Geschreven op 24 september 2023
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coachlouise
Vallejo, Californië18 bijdragen
dec. 2019
I love Mare Island, and wanted to visit the museum. For me, .the top two exhibits were the nuclear submarine mock up was really good. I'm not sure if it is really hands on, I chose not to touch, but everything is there within reach. Next was the "River Rat" boat used on the rivers in Viet Nam during the war. I got a feel for show scary it must have been to go up and down those rivers in such a small boat, (30 feet.)
The display and story of the hospital, nurses and patients was moving. There are many vintage uniforms and artifacts that are worth seeing.
My favorite of the small displays was the ship bells. There were 6 or more and you could ring them
I was vetting this for a visit by relatives and I think combined with a visit to the wine tasting room on the island, it would be a good choice.
The display and story of the hospital, nurses and patients was moving. There are many vintage uniforms and artifacts that are worth seeing.
My favorite of the small displays was the ship bells. There were 6 or more and you could ring them
I was vetting this for a visit by relatives and I think combined with a visit to the wine tasting room on the island, it would be a good choice.
Geschreven op 19 december 2019
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Citallwic
Columbia, SC8.764 bijdragen
nov. 2019
There's a lot to like about this museum. I wish we could have had a guide to explain things and answer our questions, but the exhibits are well designed for self guided tours. The most interesting exhibit by far is the control room of the USS Mariano G. Vallejo. Getting good photos in there is tricky because of the lighting and limited angles, but you can do pretty well if you're persistent.
Geschreven op 8 december 2019
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Audrey/roadrunner
Perkinston, MS10 bijdragen
nov. 2019 • Vrienden
I think this was my favorite island! It was absolutely beautiful and had the least amount of people living on it ! Wouldn't mind being stranded on this island !
Geschreven op 26 november 2019
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JCFOhio
Gallipolis, OH116 bijdragen
okt. 2019 • Vrienden
We just added a new attraction to the museum! I served about the USS Mariano G. Vallejo SSBN 658 ballistic missile submarine and we just completed the sail dedication ceremony this past weekend at the museum. The sail is outside the rear of the museum and components of the interior of our submarine are now open and available on the inside. A must see addition to an awesome museum!
Geschreven op 1 november 2019
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Kim M
Walnut Creek, Californië121 bijdragen
jul. 2019
For $5.00, you can learn all about Mare Island's naval legacy from pre-Civil War times to the present, amidst hard-working volunteers maintaining historical exhibits such as a Brown Water Riverine Patrol Boat and a submarine control room. Extend your trip to the museum by taking a $20 driving/walking tour with Joyce, a long-time shipyard employee who seems to do everything from managing the museum to pruning plants on the grounds. Along with an overview of Mare Island's latest commercial and residential developments, the tour includes dry docks, a park containing a Polaris missile and German WW II suicide sub, the oldest Navy chapel in the U.S., and former officers' mansions that are now available for special events. The island is a good location for shoreline walks and waterfowl viewing. We took a loop hike along the flat, well-paved San Pablo Bay Trail.
Geschreven op 25 augustus 2019
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X1005UDgaryp
3 bijdragen
jan. 2019 • Alleen
It’s staffed by volunteers that really know the history of mare inland ship yard. It’s a great tour to learn navy ships history
Geschreven op 4 juni 2019
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rk g
Boulder Creek, Californië29 bijdragen
mrt. 2019 • Gezinnen
Great displays, fabulous Rosie the Rivoter history, naval history and lots of fascinating stuff but housed in a freezing cold warehouse
Geschreven op 14 april 2019
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interceptpubs
Columbus, IN974 bijdragen
nov. 2018 • Alleen
Established in 1854 under the command of Commander David Farragut (before "Damn the torpedoes..." made him immortal to every schoolboy), Mare Island Naval Shipyard provided the United States Navy with its first yard facilities in the Pacific. In the 19th century, sail and steam sloops and steel monitors were built here. The first navy hospital on the West Coast was built here in 1871, and a golf course, the oldest west of the Mississippi, opened here in 1892. During the First World War, destroyers were coming down the ways. By the Second World War, submarines were the yard's specialty and stayed so into the Cold War - indeed several Polaris nuclear boats were built here in the 1950s and '60s. By the time the yard was closed in 1996, over 500 ships had been built here and over a 1,200 more had been repaired or overhauled using its facilities.
We first visited the museum here back in the late 1990s just after it opened. It was pretty small and not particularly remarkable. About all we remember was a bust of David Farragut and some artifacts off his Civil War ship Hartford (she actually spent some time at Mare Island after the Civil War and was rebuilt before heading back to the East Coast as a training ship around 1900). We were back in this area some 20 years later and decided to see if the musuem had filled out any - we were pleasantly surprised by what we found!
The museum today fills a very large building with literally hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of artifacts, photos, etc. on display. We read somewhere where this is now the largest repository of naval artifacts in the United States - while this sounded like a bit of hyperbole when we first read it, it could very well be true after seeing what's here. Of course, having a bunch of artifacts doesn't necessarily make for a good museum, but here there is a logic to how they are arranged, with little alcoves on various subjects ranging from the first Japanese ligation who stopped at Mare Island on their way to Washington, D.C. in 1860 to the reconstruction (with the original equipment) of the control room of the nuclear ballistic missile submarine Vallejo built here a hundred years later.
We opted to go on the full tour of the base with a docent. This included a guided walkthrough of the museum displays and a driving tour around the base with stops at the chapel (including the tiffany stained glass windows in the sanctuary), the very elegant colonial revival officer's mansions, the building ways and dry docks, etc. The tour around the base took an hour or so, while the museum tour (guided and on our own) took another hour and a half. We also just walked around the base on our own for another hour or so looking at the evolution of the buildings over the nearly 150 years the base was in operation - we also came across a number of interesting historical artifacts still on the grounds that are well worth seeing.
Admission to the museum itself is $5 while the guided tour of the museum and grounds is $15. We enjoyed every minute of our time here and thought this was a great value.
We first visited the museum here back in the late 1990s just after it opened. It was pretty small and not particularly remarkable. About all we remember was a bust of David Farragut and some artifacts off his Civil War ship Hartford (she actually spent some time at Mare Island after the Civil War and was rebuilt before heading back to the East Coast as a training ship around 1900). We were back in this area some 20 years later and decided to see if the musuem had filled out any - we were pleasantly surprised by what we found!
The museum today fills a very large building with literally hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of artifacts, photos, etc. on display. We read somewhere where this is now the largest repository of naval artifacts in the United States - while this sounded like a bit of hyperbole when we first read it, it could very well be true after seeing what's here. Of course, having a bunch of artifacts doesn't necessarily make for a good museum, but here there is a logic to how they are arranged, with little alcoves on various subjects ranging from the first Japanese ligation who stopped at Mare Island on their way to Washington, D.C. in 1860 to the reconstruction (with the original equipment) of the control room of the nuclear ballistic missile submarine Vallejo built here a hundred years later.
We opted to go on the full tour of the base with a docent. This included a guided walkthrough of the museum displays and a driving tour around the base with stops at the chapel (including the tiffany stained glass windows in the sanctuary), the very elegant colonial revival officer's mansions, the building ways and dry docks, etc. The tour around the base took an hour or so, while the museum tour (guided and on our own) took another hour and a half. We also just walked around the base on our own for another hour or so looking at the evolution of the buildings over the nearly 150 years the base was in operation - we also came across a number of interesting historical artifacts still on the grounds that are well worth seeing.
Admission to the museum itself is $5 while the guided tour of the museum and grounds is $15. We enjoyed every minute of our time here and thought this was a great value.
Geschreven op 14 november 2018
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bugnurse56
Santa Paula, Californië323 bijdragen
mei 2018 • Vrienden
The museum is an American gem. Everyone can learn from this spot, so huge and filled with the past community lives of so many US heroes who served our country. Ladies, nurses, African-Americans, immigrants, soldiers and sailors are all pictured and listed here, and the naval weaponry and munitions are amazing, as well as some of the advances for the time period we now take for granted (submarine view scopes, radar, medical breakthroughs, related stores of the nearby air fields. Well worth a small donation.
Geschreven op 27 oktober 2018
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Sonali B
55 bijdragen
Can I see anything relating to Zodiac Killer at Mare Island Museum in Vallejo of California USA? Also how
far is Mare Island Museum from Hotel Nikko San Francisco in California USA?
Geschreven op 11 april 2019
Apologies for the delay- No Zodiac killer memorabilia is at this museum.
From San Francisco: The San Fransisco ferry to Vallejo would be my recommendation: go to the Pier Embarkation area of Fisherman's Wharf and get the ferry schedule, travel to Vallejo (one hour, interesting and fun) and tour the exhibit, close by.
You will need to have a driver to take you to that museum, as it is located on the island across from the ferry drop off..
Geschreven op 17 mei 2019
My husband's mother returned to velajo when his father went in navy in 1942 she became a welder at the ship yards and left when the war was over. That is all we know. I assume she worked at shipyards in velajo not rich and. How can I find out more info? I am not a robot
Geschreven op 10 juli 2017
If she was a welder during the war and lived in Vallejo (please note correct spelling of the town name), quite likely she worked at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. So many people worked at the shipyard, I'm not sure any records were kept that in depth. However, the thing to do is to contact the Mare Island Museum which is based on Mare Island to see what records they may have. Good Luck!
Geschreven op 11 juli 2017
Is this where the commissioning into the Navy ceremony is held?
Geschreven op 18 februari 2017
The Navy built and commissioned many ships at Mare Island. They were launched off of the "ways", the ramps sloping into the water near the museum.
Geschreven op 26 maart 2017
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