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  • Buoyancy: How a Boat Floats

    How and why do massive ships, tugboats, and sailboats float?

  • Planting the Seed of Environmental Stewardship

    • Educational Enrichment
    • Environmental Conservation
    • Mariners' Park

    High school students from Newport News Public Schools have been assisting The Mariners' Museum and Park with a Mariners’ Lake restoration project called B-WET. Through this program, students gain valuable watershed knowledge and take an active role in becoming environmental stewards.

  • Celebrating 10 years of History Bites

    • Cultural Heritage
    • Recreation

    What’s History Bites, you ask? It is a fabulous food event that has served as the finishing touch of the Museum’s annual Commemoration of the Battle of Hampton Roads for the past 10 years!

  • For Kids

    The most important part of our community of mariners is children. Young mariners and their caregivers are invited to enjoy every aspect of our Museum and Park.

  • Hampton Roads during WWII: Army Nurse Corps

    • Collections
    • Hampton Roads History
    • Military
    • Photography
    • Women's History

    The United States Army Nurse Corps (ANC) was formally established by the US Congress in 1901. Women served as nurses in previous wars, but it wasn’t until 1901 that they were officially on Army Payroll.

  • The Spanish Flu in Hampton Roads  

    • Hampton Roads History
    • Red Cross

    By mid-September 1918, the first cases of the Spanish Flu were reported, impacting the soldiers, sailors, and workers coming into the Hampton Roads community to support the war effort. Bases and ships had to be built, requiring more workers than Hampton Roads had ever seen before.

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