Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum

Portsmouth's Naval Museum is odd in that unlike any other maritime museum I've visited - there are no exhibits actually sitting in the water. There's a lightship on display, but that's sitting outside an apartment building, and the rest is contained within the walls of a small but well-kept building in Old Town Portsmouth.Admission to the attraction is $2. That should adequately manage your expectations should you decide to make the tip out here. That said, the price is a great value for what's here. The museum covers the history of Portsmouth/Norfolk and those shipyards, because it is impossible to understand the history of each without understanding how integral shipbuilding is to the course of these cities. I'm a big WWII guy, but I found myself spending most of the trip in the Civil War section. It seemed like there was a whole lot more collected from that era. The WWII stuff wasn't quite what I had hoped. Overall though, an hour spent here won't hurt you. And there's plenty to see around this town as well.