The new USS Monitor Center promises to become one of the nation’s premier
destinations for history buffs
        Source: Port Folio Weekly (4-11-06)

"In her previous life, she was a warrior," proclaims a Mariner’s Museum
ad. "Now she’s an icon." A second poster reads, "Umbrella drinks and
shuffleboard on the lido deck? Hardly."

The catchy phrases are part of the museum’s new national marketing
campaign for the USS Monitor Center, a $30 million project scheduled for
opening March 9, 2007 — one hundred forty five years after the Civil War
ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia battled each other in Hampton
Roads.

The Mariner’s Museum in Newport News offered a preview of its promotional
lineup at a March 28 news conference to launch the public campaign to
raise the $30 million. A hard-hat tour of the 63,500-square foot USS
Monitor Center followed.



Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006



Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President
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