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Mariners' Museum : ウィキペディア英語版 | Mariners' Museum
The Mariners' Museum and Park is located in Newport News, Virginia, United States. Designated as America’s ''National Maritime Museum'' by Congress, it is one of the largest maritime museums in North America. The Mariners' Museum Library, which in 2009 moved to the Trible Library on the campus of Christopher Newport University, contains the largest maritime history collection in the Western Hemisphere.〔(Museum Library ), Mariners' Museum. Accessed 29 Sept 2015.〕 == History == The museum was founded in 1930 by Archer Milton Huntington, son of Collis P. Huntington, a railroad builder who brought the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to Warwick County, Virginia, and who founded the City of Newport News, its coal export facilities, and Newport News Shipbuilding in the late 19th century. Huntington and his wife, the sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, acquired of land that would come to hold of exhibition galleries, a research library, a lake, a shoreline trail with fourteen bridges, and over 35,000 maritime artifacts from around the globe. After the land acquisition took place, the first two years were devoted to creating and improving a natural park and constructing a dam to create Lake Maury, named after the nineteenth-century Virginia oceanographer, Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury.
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