Museums Established in 2004 - USS Midway, Jurassic Museum of Asturias, Chesham Museum, Shildon Locomotion Museum, Es Baluard (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: USS Midway, Jurassic Museum of Asturias, Chesham Museum, Shildon Locomotion Museum, Es Baluard, National Constitution Center, Formosa Plastics Group Museum, The British Postal Museum & Archive, Artsdepot, USS Midway Museum, Dinosaur Walk Museum, Museo Casa Chihuahua, Galicia Jewish Museum, Rubin Museum of Art, Museum of Toys and Automata, East Kentucky Science Center, Chichu Art Museum, The Museum of the American Cocktail, Olympic Spirit Toronto, Marian Koshland Science Museum, Georgian National Museum, Ralph Stanley Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario, Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, Istanbul Modern, Do ancay Museum, South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, Mayborn Museum Complex, Inkijkmuseum, O. Winston Link Museum, American Poetry Museum, Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie. Excerpt: USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class, and the first to be commissioned after the end of World War II. Active in the Vietnam War and in Operation Desert Storm, she is currently a museum ship at the San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum, in San Diego, California. She is the only remaining US aircraft carrier of the World War II era that is not an Essex-class ship. When she was completed in 1945, she was the first US warship that was unable to utilize the Panama Canal due to her size. Midway was laid down 27 October 1943 by Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, Virginia. Her revolutionary hull design was based on what would have been the Montana class battleships and gave her superior maneuverability over all previous carriers. She was launched 20 March 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Bradford William Ripley, Jr.; and commissioned 10 September 1945, Captain Joseph F. Bolger in command. After shakedown in the Caribbean, ...