This state-of-the-art facility provides visitors with a view of the delicate process of preserving history. The conservation facility offers visitors:
View the USS Monitor‘s vibrating side-lever steam engine. The engine is a composite artifact, meaning that it is composed of many different material types including wrought iron, cast iron, copper and copper alloys, rubber, and glass.View camera image
Catch a glimpse of the USS Monitor‘s revolving gun turret. The 120-ton wrought iron turret is visible whether the tank is filled with 90,000 gallons of treatment solution or if conservators are inside the turret performing treatment activities.View camera image
This webcam shows the USS Monitor‘s two XI-inch Dahlgren shell guns and their gun carriages. Conservators have been busy disassembling the 3,200-pound gun carriages, which have been rotated into their original upright positions.View camera image