The Mariners' Museum - Newport News, Virginia The Mariners' Museum Exhibition Schedule For research requests, follow the instructions located here . This information is current as of September 23, 1999.
Exhibitions are subject to change.
Entrance to all exhibitions is included in regular Museum admission. Museum members receive free admission. In the early days of the automobile, boatbuilder Chris Smith gave the growing American middle class an opportunity to realize its dreams of social status through ownership of a Chris-Craft. Ads for these beautiful yet affordable mahogany boats whispered of the Social Register and such fashionable towns as Newport and Miami Beach. The dawn of the millennium is an apt time to examine how our ability to measure time, distance, and our place on Earth has evolved over the centuries.