It doesn't look like they clean up this entryway ever. I think maybe it is some kind of loading door to the lower level. It is about 20 feet from the main entry way which is fancier and which has a small "grand staircase" up to the main floor entrance. I guess people are not supposed to look here. Maybe they should get a big potted plant. Would be funny to see a shower stall here - useful too: $1.00.
Inside are mostly pictures, models and military artifacts from Mare Island Naval Shipyard (closed), and a few historic rooms from Vallejo of a hundred years ago. It's kind of a cramped museum. They have a big room that takes up half of the main floor that is used for art shows and meetings of one kind or another.
Right in the center on the top floor, right above the Y-shaped staircase, is a platform where you can go and look through a periscope from a submarine and move it around to see the surrounding buildings of downtown Vallejo. The optics are kind of blurry and as I remember there was not that gage in the optic for estimating the distance of the target, like you see in submarine movies.
It's kind of interesting, but sort of like a stuffed closet in a way. They need some kind of dynamic restructuring and community relevancy to get it up and moving - which means new leadership and lots of money, which won't be happening anytime soon.
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Date: 2014-02-16 07:22 pm (UTC)Inside are mostly pictures, models and military artifacts from Mare Island Naval Shipyard (closed), and a few historic rooms from Vallejo of a hundred years ago. It's kind of a cramped museum. They have a big room that takes up half of the main floor that is used for art shows and meetings of one kind or another.
Right in the center on the top floor, right above the Y-shaped staircase, is a platform where you can go and look through a periscope from a submarine and move it around to see the surrounding buildings of downtown Vallejo. The optics are kind of blurry and as I remember there was not that gage in the optic for estimating the distance of the target, like you see in submarine movies.
It's kind of interesting, but sort of like a stuffed closet in a way. They need some kind of dynamic restructuring and community relevancy to get it up and moving - which means new leadership and lots of money, which won't be happening anytime soon.