We started our tour from the family home of Admiral Chester William Nimitz ('Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II'*) where I learned about his life and career.
Then we moved to the internal part of the museum - with multimedia presentations, interactive exposition, and displays. A very interesting history lesson. The museum is so big that watching and studying all the exhibits takes actually much more time than one school class only. Luckily, the museum tickets are valid for forty-eight hours which allows coming back (and further exploring) on the next day.
The exposition area covers six acres and consists of several sections such as:
- the George H.W. Bush Gallery (Allied and Japanese planes, tanks, guns and other items made famous during the Pacific War),
- Plaza of Presidents, Veterans' Walk of Honor and Memorial Wall,
- Japanese Garden of Peace and
- Pacific Combat Zone
The field hospital seemed rather creepy to me - did not want to spend much time around it. |
The museum is really worth visiting. You cannot miss it when you come to Fredericksburg!
Museum hours:
Interior exhibits: 9 AM to 5 PM (except Christmas Day and Thanksgiving)
more info: ww.pacificwarmuseum.org
*citation from wikipedia.org
Sounds very interesting! Never heard of a museum where your tickets are valuable for 48hours either...Lovely pics as well!
ReplyDeleteThank you, it is quite a place indeed. The museum is very big, you wouldn't be able to watch it all (even looking at everything very briefly) during one visit.
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