Intrepid Museum: the ship and the people aboard
Sailors' oral histories bring the working lives aboard an aircraft carrier into the Intrepid Museum. You explore the ship itself, walking its decks and comparing military aircraft, including a restored World War II Corsair featured alongside crew accounts and hands-on material. Intrepid served during World War II, the Cold War and Vietnam, and later recovered NASA capsules. Its machinery gets attention, too: the Engines and Boilers experience uses 3D recreations to let you try running engines, fueling boilers and steering.
The Space Shuttle Pavilion holds Enterprise, the prototype orbiter, alongside a Soyuz capsule. Elsewhere, the Growler submarine's missile command center and tight working quarters show a different kind of life at sea, while a British Airways Concorde stands on the pier. For children, the Exploreum brings the scale down to something they can physically try: entering a Bell 47 helicopter, exploring a mock submarine and lying in a sailor's bunk.
