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Morro Bay Maritime Museum: California: Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Maritime Museum: Y California: Oxnard: Channel Islands (Ventura County) Maritime Museum: California: Port Hueneme: US Navy SeaBee Museum: California: Richmond: Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site: California: Samoa: Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum: California: San Diego
Newport Beach: Maritime: formerly the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, marine aquariums and touch tanks, ship models, life on the ocean floor Fullerton Arboretum: Fullerton: Multiple: Includes the Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum, and Heritage House, an 1890s Victorian house museum Fullerton Museum: Fullerton: Multiple
The museum’s collection totals approximately 32,000 artifacts, equally divided between works of art and three-dimensional objects. The scope of the collection is international and includes miniature ship models, scrimshaw, maritime paintings, decorative arts, carved figureheads, working steam engines, and the world's only known Kratz-built steam calliope. [4]
Newport Harbor once supported maritime industries such as boatbuilding, shipbuilding, and commercial fishing, but today it is used mostly for recreation. Its shores are occupied mostly by private homes and private docks. Newport Harbor has approximately 9,000 boats and is one of the largest recreational boat harbors on the U.S. west coast. [16]
The Museum is now the official home of Transpac and the custodian of its history and memorabilia. The Newport Harbor Nautical Museum is dedicated to preserving and promoting the nautical heritage of Newport Harbor , Balboa , southern California and the eastern Pacific through stimulating exhibitions, and inspiring education programs pertaining ...
According to records in the Newport assessor's office, the Miramar estate consists of three properties – the mansion, a carriage house and a separate, vacant 1-acre oceanfront lot – on 7.2 ...
It was the second day of Newport Folk Festival and around 7 a.m., Land was rushing out the door to help retrieve a sinking boat just off the harbor. “It’s common,” Land said. “It doesn’t ...
The Naval War College Museum in Newport, Rhode Island, is one of 10 official American museums operated by the United States Navy, under the direction of the Naval History & Heritage Command and in co-operation with the Naval War College. It is located at Building 10, Luce Avenue, Naval Station Newport. It is located in the building which first ...