The National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History is a private non-profit museum, located in Sadorus, Illinois. It features ship models from around the world and throughout history.
Recent exhibits include a 27-foot model of the made entirely out of one million toothpicks. The collection includes ship models from the movies Tora! Tora! Tora!, Cleopatra, and Ben-Hur as well as from the television series Tugboat Annie Sails Again.
The museum is open on Saturdays (11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) Saturdays from April 1 to November 30; also by appointment, including through the winter holidays.
In the press The museum was featured in a January 2004 Chicago Tribune cover story.https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/01/12/collector-small-town-setting-sail/
Further reading Reid, Tony. “Sadorus Man and the Sea.” Herald & Review (Decatur, IL), 10 May 2010. Accessed through EBSCOhost. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
External links Official website of the National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History
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