The Mariner's Museum (https://marinersmuseum.org/) in Newport News, VA, is well know for many great exhibits and resources. If you are a fan of Chris-Craft boats, they are THE archive with hull cards, photos, boat plans, sales catalogs, price lists, boat and engine manuals (https://marinersmuseum.org/library/#chris). They are working on stabilizing the gun turret of the first ironclad, the Monitor (https://monitorcenter.org/).
Less well know, perhaps, are the model ships built by August Crabtree and his wife, Winnifred. Here's an excellent YouTube video of a talk that Ron Lewis, a docent at the museum, recently gave on his life and work...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3F5snoOXDU.
