Historic artifacts are being packed up at the current museum at Washington’s Navy Yard.
to the Navy Yard.
Each will receive $50,000 to develop ideas and provide renderings and models that will be unveiled this spring. The new museum will be outside the yard and will offer full public access, said retired Rear Adm. Samuel J. Cox, the director the Naval History and Heritage Command. There it will stay with other large ship models until they are either placed in the new museum or relocated elsewhere, Rentfrow said.
Another artifact, the statue of slain Boatswain’s Mate Charles W. Riggin, which was made out of silver from thousands of donated dimes, will be weighed and packaged and put into storage at another building at the Navy Yard, according to Schwenk.Riggin, who served on the USS Baltimore, was killed in 1891 in Valparaiso, Chile, during an attack by locals apparently angry at the Navy’s presence. His murder, now long forgotten, was front page news at the time.
The South Carolina model probably was created by the Philadelphia firm that built the ship, she said. The ship was commissioned in 1910.
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