Battle of Hampton Roads Weekend, March 9 - 11 - Mariners' Blog

The Mariners’ Museum and NOAA’s监视器National Marine Sanctuary will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads in Newport News on March 9-11, 2012.

快来访问水手们参加各种惊人的活动，请参阅《人类遗体的数字面部重建》的揭幕。监视器, and attend the Civil War Navy Conference. The conference runs from Friday to Sunday and award-winning authors Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds are the headliners. Attend dozens of fun and informative lectures about all aspects of the Battle of Hampton Roads and other Civil War Navy topics delivered by national and international experts.

If an intellectual conference isn’t your idea of fun, we’ve partnered with some amazing organizations including NOAA, Museum of the Confederacy, American Studies Department of Christopher Newport University, and Hampton Roads Naval Museum in order to put on a wide variety of events. These events are a Student Living History Day on Friday, an interactive spy game called Ironclad BattleQuest, Union and Confederate encampents and re-enactment demonstratiosn, vignettes and other programs.

But we’re not done yet! NOAA’s监视器National Marine Sanctuary staff will be releasing facial reconstructions of both监视器crewmembers whose remains were discovered inside the revolving gun turret in 2002. These 3-dimensional digital facial reconstructions are being unveiled at The Mariners’ Museum for the first time! NOAA has been working diligently with partners to hopefully one day identify both sets of human remains. This work is still ongoing. Sanctuary Superintendant Dave Alberg will present this information during Battle of Hampton Roads Weekend.

The Civil War 150 HistoryMobile will be at The Mariners’ Museum. It is an interactive “Museum on Wheels” housed in a 53-foot expandable tractor-trailer. The HistoryMobile is sponsored by the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission.

水手队还将在弗吉尼亚半岛举办一场大型景点的摩托车之旅。加入约翰·夸斯坦（John Quarstein）和迈克尔·摩尔（J.如果您没有与John和J. Michael一起骑车的乐趣，那么您会错过！

We know you will have worked up a serious appetite after all these activities. Don’t worry, our 2nd Annual Battle of the Ironclad Chefs has you covered! Watch as two culinary experts utilize two very unique cooking styles, that of a plantation cook and that of a Union cook on the deck of the USS监视器, to demonstrate their cooking prowess. They will give you a true taste of the Civil War.

I almost forgot to mention the daily behind-the-scenes tours of the USS监视器Conservation laboratory at The Mariners’ Museum. Conservation experts will guide you through the lab and show you the most recently conserved artifacts and ongoing lab projects. And during this special weekend, you will have the opportunity to see USS监视器的蒸汽机。保护者将排干发动机箱，以使实验室访问者能够拍照，同时距离约翰·爱立信（John Ericsson）的20吨蒸汽机仅几英尺远！

This event is made possible due to generous sponsorships from Bank of America, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Southern Structural Steel, and Holiday Inn & Suites.